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Samantha Power’s brazen hypocrisy: Media swallows propaganda, but here’s the truth about Ukraine

Samantha Power’s brazen hypocrisy: Media swallows propaganda, but here’s the truth about Ukraine

May 7, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The media swallows U.S. propaganda whole. Here’s the truth about Ukraine — and what it shows about American power Ukraine comes full circle. In six months, a troubled but intact nation is now pulled to pieces. Vasyl Krutov, the general…

Thomas Friedman, supreme toady: Also, shameless!

Thomas Friedman, supreme toady: Also, shameless!

March 1, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Shame on the Times and other media for falsely spinning Ukraine events. We now await the inevitable U.S. betrayal Months of discontent in Kiev and the western portion of Ukraine combust into an explosion of provocation and response, unwarranted violence,…

You’re being lied to about Afghanistan: The terrorists there include us

You’re being lied to about Afghanistan: The terrorists there include us

January 30, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

When we treat civilians as collateral damage, no wonder Hamid Karzai trusts us as little as the U.S. trusts him Some readers may recall the joke that went around when George W. Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan shortly…

They still hate us: No one wants to be America, anymore

They still hate us: No one wants to be America, anymore

July 18, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Forget the standard lunacy that emerging nations “hate our freedoms.” They just don’t want to be Westernized It is common enough, and true, to say that what happens in Egypt as it stumbles through its political dawn or dusk —…

American exceptionalism is a dangerous myth

American exceptionalism is a dangerous myth

May 26, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Move beyond Tea Party lies and phony patriotism. This Memorial Day, let’s remember our history honestly Excerpted from “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century” At one end of the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., in the expanse between…

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