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On Writers, the Media, and the Corruptions of Power

On Writers, the Media, and the Corruptions of Power

June 22, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

Joel Whitney, whose book Finks is about the CIA’s subversion of US culture, talks about the scars left by the Cold War. In Part 1 of my exchange with Joel Whitney, conducted shortly after OR Books published Finks: How the CIA Tricked the…

Are We Witnessing a Coup Operation Against the Trump White House?

Are We Witnessing a Coup Operation Against the Trump White House?

February 22, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

Our intelligence apparatus is doing far more than stoking paranoia about the Russian bogeyman—it’s threatening democracy. A couple of books come to mind amid the relentless leaks emanating from the spooks on either side of the Potomac and, not to…

Clinton, Gen. Allen and alarmist declarations: The media must call out leaders for their dangerous fictions

Clinton, Gen. Allen and alarmist declarations: The media must call out leaders for their dangerous fictions

August 3, 2016 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

A couple of remarkable things got said on television last Sunday morning. Both seemed to have slipped into the record without much comment. Let us keep the record straight, then — the never-ending task when you have a corporatized press…

The Syria dilemma: Dissecting the leaked diplomats memo calling for Obama to get tougher on Assad

The Syria dilemma: Dissecting the leaked diplomats memo calling for Obama to get tougher on Assad

June 24, 2016 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Something smells fishy when a hawkish State Dept. memo “leaks” to the Times on the eve of Sec. Clinton’s nomination It has been clear for some time that the Syria conflict was bound to turn into some magnitude of Waterloo…

Our Syria policy is still a mess: These are the dots the media refuses to connect

Our Syria policy is still a mess: These are the dots the media refuses to connect

June 12, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Russia’s foreign minister reveals a strange talk with John Kerry, and explains much about American foreign policy MOSCOW—Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s widely respected foreign minister, dropped a big one here last weekend. After an hour-long conversation with John Kerry, Lavrov asserted…

“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…

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…

The real story about Syria and Libya: Behind a new agreement with Moscow, and the insidious way the New York Times protects Hillary

The real story about Syria and Libya: Behind a new agreement with Moscow, and the insidious way the New York Times protects Hillary

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

A new accord with Moscow on Syria clears up little. And a new Times series on Clinton and Libya has a messy agenda Hardly does the Syria accord announced jointly in Washington and Moscow last week clarify the swamp of…

This is how we spooked Putin: What the New York Times won’t tell you about the American adventure in Ukraine

This is how we spooked Putin: What the New York Times won’t tell you about the American adventure in Ukraine

February 23, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The failure of Washington’s most adventurous power assertion in post-Cold War period can no longer be papered over All of a sudden, straight out of nowhere, Ukraine creeps back into the news. There is renewed fighting in the rebellious eastern…

Bernie Sanders and David Brooks, both wrong: This year of Fox News and Donald Trump-fueled rage can’t be fixed by any candidate

Bernie Sanders and David Brooks, both wrong: This year of Fox News and Donald Trump-fueled rage can’t be fixed by any candidate

January 19, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

We are angry. We are afraid. We are exceptional. And the problem with America is that very combination Everything was going smoothly these holidays just past. Then, on the last day of the year, David Ignatius published an opinion piece in the…

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