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Trish Wood is Critical: Patrick Lawrence

October 23, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Appearances

The biggest story of the American election is being censored by the media and Big Tech.  Veteran journalist Patrick Lawrence writes that the scandal contained inside Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop is now eclipsed by the efforts of America’s elites to…

The Democrats' Desperate Russian Gambit Against Trump Will Backfire

The Democrats’ Desperate Russian Gambit Against Trump Will Backfire

November 4, 2016 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The Democrats have regularly played the “Russia card,” implicating Donald Trump in supposedly nefarious ties to Putin and others, ever since the Democratic National Committee’s mail hack exposed how the then party chair, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz favored Clinton over Bernie Sanders….

John Kerry’s last hurrah: With the Syrian cease-fire, the secretary of state takes a parting swipe at Russophobia

John Kerry’s last hurrah: With the Syrian cease-fire, the secretary of state takes a parting swipe at Russophobia

September 14, 2016 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

The cease-fire ends his successful skirmish with the Pentagon, but the war will grind on long after Kerry is gone Secretary of State John Kerry now gives us another “cessation of hostilities” agreement — a not-quite-cease-fire — as signed with…

We can’t have more of the same: The very real dangers of Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy

We can’t have more of the same: The very real dangers of Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy

June 4, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Trump may well be dangerous. But know what you’re getting with Hillary: American hegemony that’s hated worldwide Just what we needed: another foreign policy speech from Candidate Clinton. This one arrived last Thursday in San Diego—well-chosen ground, given the Navy’s…

“This will stop only when the American people get fed up”: American exceptionalism, the New York Times, and our foreign policy after Barack Obama

“This will stop only when the American people get fed up”: American exceptionalism, the New York Times, and our foreign policy after Barack Obama

May 22, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Our smartest modern military historian explains to Salon what’s wrong about our adventures in the Middle East Part one of my interview with Andrew Bacevich, the soldier-turned-scholar who has just published “America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military…

We can’t vote for either one: On world stage, Clinton and Trump present different, but serious, dangers

We can’t vote for either one: On world stage, Clinton and Trump present different, but serious, dangers

May 8, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

It is pathetically impossible to determine which one would be worse, the only metric we have left. It’s OK to pass As of this past week Americans voters have their choices in November—all three of them. I do not see…

We are all just this screwed: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and our muddled, perverted democracy

We are all just this screwed: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and our muddled, perverted democracy

May 1, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Hillary will be the nominee this fall. Time to examine what Bernie achieved and how it might go different next time The consensus is not complete, but it will be soon enough. Bernie Sanders is not going to make it,…

Trump opposed Iraq. Hillary voted for war: Let’s take his foreign policy vision seriously

Trump opposed Iraq. Hillary voted for war: Let’s take his foreign policy vision seriously

April 27, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Trump gets some things very wrong. But today’s speech was still daring, spot on and important contrast with Hillary Donald Trump on foreign policy. You start out thinking this is going to be roughly akin to George W. discoursing on,…

She’ll make Iran, Syria worse: What the media won’t tell you about our foreign policy — and how hawkish Hillary will pour the kerosene

She’ll make Iran, Syria worse: What the media won’t tell you about our foreign policy — and how hawkish Hillary will pour the kerosene

April 17, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The truth about our foreign policy is on display, if we choose to look. If only we ever learned the right lessons What an unusual season—or seasons, I should say. The inner workings of American foreign policy are rarely as…

Trump Is the Wrong Messenger, But He’s Raised Some of the Right Issues

Trump Is the Wrong Messenger, But He’s Raised Some of the Right Issues

April 4, 2016 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Donald Trump is never short of controversial remarks and highly unlikely policy positions, but his recent ventures into foreign affairs have prompted unusually sharp reactions even by Trump’s standards. First came a scathing open letter from 120-odd Republican national security…

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