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The New York Times “basically rewrites whatever the Kiev authorities say”: Stephen F. Cohen on the U.S./Russia/Ukraine history the media won’t tell you

The New York Times “basically rewrites whatever the Kiev authorities say”: Stephen F. Cohen on the U.S./Russia/Ukraine history the media won’t tell you

April 16, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

There’s an alternative story of Russian relations we’re not hearing. Historian Stephen Cohen tells it here It is one thing to comment in a column as the Ukrainian crisis grinds on and Washington—senselessly, with no idea of what will come…

“A steady flow of stupidity”: Reality in Ukraine — and Obama and the New York Times’ bizarro parallel universe

“A steady flow of stupidity”: Reality in Ukraine — and Obama and the New York Times’ bizarro parallel universe

September 9, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

A new cease-fire in Ukraine seems durable — despite best efforts of Washington and the media to provoke conflict We may or may not have a durable cease-fire in Ukraine, given reports of sporadic shelling and machine-gun fire, by who…

The Mess Obama Made on the Way to the So-Called Ceasefire in Ukraine

The Mess Obama Made on the Way to the So-Called Ceasefire in Ukraine

September 8, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Assuming the ceasefire declared in Ukraine as of sundown Friday holds—and the early signs are favorable—we celebrate the end of a conflict that has claimed a startling 2,600 lives since it broke out in April. But not so fast. It’s…

Do’s and Don’ts of a Post Qaddafi U.S. Policy

Do’s and Don’ts of a Post Qaddafi U.S. Policy

August 23, 2011 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

“American aid, not American troops,” President Obama declared from a Martha’s Vineyard vacation house on Monday as news of Tripoli’s fall toinsurgent forces flowed in. In five simple words, the President described a fundamental turn in U.S. policy abroad – a…

NATO Flirts With South Africa

NATO Flirts With South Africa

September 24, 1977 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Nation.

Focuses on theories that are being developed to make military ties of North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries with South Africa, acceptable. Factors that are responsible for the interest of western countries in South Africa; Brief information about the Cape Route…

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