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“Architects of American policy towards Russia and Ukraine are destroying American national security”: Stephen F. Cohen on the truths U.S. media and politicians hide

“Architects of American policy towards Russia and Ukraine are destroying American national security”: Stephen F. Cohen on the truths U.S. media and politicians hide

April 23, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Myths of American nationalism busted as our interview with noted scholar concludes If there is a lesson in Stephen F. Cohen’s professional fortunes over the past year, it is the peril of advancing a dispassionate reading of our great country’s…

Bomb-crazy, “do something” neocons must be stopped — or Iraq will be Obama’s Vietnam

Bomb-crazy, “do something” neocons must be stopped — or Iraq will be Obama’s Vietnam

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

We have done enough harm. We’re not able to do good. We must simply admit the enormity of our mistake — and change It is too soon to quote Reagan, much as one always longs to do so, and exclaim,…

“Literally pointless”: Charles Krauthammer and disastrously wrong neocons misread Obama, again

“Literally pointless”: Charles Krauthammer and disastrously wrong neocons misread Obama, again

May 31, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Neocons blast West Point speech, miss the obvious: Obama’s foreign policy problem is stagnantly thinking like them President Obama has just advised us that the front edge of our country’s foreign policy has shifted — shifted again, that is to…

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…

John McCain, cranky, warmongering madman, again: Why does the New York Times print these lunatic ravings?

John McCain, cranky, warmongering madman, again: Why does the New York Times print these lunatic ravings?

March 17, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

An out-of-control McCain calls for Obama to draw a red line in Crimea. The New York Times just goes right along One develops an odd liking for John McCain over time—attenuated but not grudging. The Republican senator who once found…

Yellowcake all over again: Don’t believe the Syrian interventionists

Yellowcake all over again: Don’t believe the Syrian interventionists

August 23, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Possible chemical weapons attack has the usual hawks urging intervention in Syria. Their intel could be wrong again What we know about what just happened in Syria: Someone seems to have sent chemically toxic substances into several suburbs of Damascus…

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