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Hypocrisy, incompetence and cold inhumanity: Ukraine heads for its most gruesome hour

Hypocrisy, incompetence and cold inhumanity: Ukraine heads for its most gruesome hour

July 11, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Brace yourself: Ukraine’s civil war is about to turn even worse. Time to examine our policies that brought us here We had better brace ourselves. The civil war in Ukraine appears headed for its most gruesome hour. Those in the…

Propaganda, lies and the New York Times: Everything you really need to know about Ukraine

Propaganda, lies and the New York Times: Everything you really need to know about Ukraine

March 12, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The media keeps buying the American spin on what’s happening in Ukraine. Let’s cut through the fog You need a machete these days to whack through the thicket of misinformation, disinformation, spin, propaganda and straight-out lying that daily envelopes the…

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