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Distortions, lies and omissions: The New York Times won’t tell you the real story behind Ukraine, Russian economic collapse

Distortions, lies and omissions: The New York Times won’t tell you the real story behind Ukraine, Russian economic collapse

January 20, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

International papers will cover America’s role in the world honestly. Only our best paper willingly blinds itself A note arrived a few days ago from one of my best informants in Europe. He had just met across a hotel dining…

Here’s how we defeat the vulgarians: Bill Maher, wrong-headed neocons, and the real answer to “radical Islam”

Here’s how we defeat the vulgarians: Bill Maher, wrong-headed neocons, and the real answer to “radical Islam”

January 14, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

We need an honest response to Charlie Hebdo. Start by remembering how 9/11 felt before Bush hijacked it for war A lot of garbage has spewed from people unworthy of our attention since the attacks in Paris last week, and…

Beyond the foreign policy lies: Our compliant media and the truth about American exceptionalism

Beyond the foreign policy lies: Our compliant media and the truth about American exceptionalism

January 1, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

A new year begins, and America must resolve to do different & better. Here’s a roadmap. It starts with clear eyes We have put away our argyle cardigans, drawn close to the fire, listened to the Crosby records, and roasted…

Paging Keri Russell: Russia, Cuba and the truth about Putin the U.S. media doesn’t want you to know

Paging Keri Russell: Russia, Cuba and the truth about Putin the U.S. media doesn’t want you to know

December 24, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

We are making mayhem in Russia, and reality is almost the opposite of what is being described in the press I cannot be the only one to note the remarkable sequence of events in the Obama White House last week….

We are f***ing sadists: We are not decent, and we are not a democracy

We are f***ing sadists: We are not decent, and we are not a democracy

December 16, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The torture report requires us to look in the mirror — and accurately assess the monster that we see “You’ll comment on the torture report?” a friend in London asked just after the Senate’s revelations came out last week. “No,…

New York Times propagandists exposed: Finally, the truth about Ukraine and Putin emerges

New York Times propagandists exposed: Finally, the truth about Ukraine and Putin emerges

December 3, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

NATO was the aggressor and got Ukraine wrong. Many months later, the media has eventually Well, well, well. Gloating is unseemly, especially in public, but give me this one, will you? It has been a long and lonely winter defending the…

“Our media have betrayed us incessantly this year”

“Our media have betrayed us incessantly this year”

November 27, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

This is a day to give thanks and to remember. That’s harder and harder with a media that wants us to forget It grows more difficult, all thinking people must admit, to figure out what we Americans are to be…

We are the terrorists too: Thomas Friedman and John Kerry are misleading you about the Middle East

We are the terrorists too: Thomas Friedman and John Kerry are misleading you about the Middle East

November 20, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The New York Times and the administration are spinning post-Arab Spring era. Let’s set the facts straight At a diplomatic do in New York the other night, someone remarked that the events that broke the Middle East wide open four…

What really happened in Beijing: Putin, Obama, Xi — and the back story the media won’t tell you

What really happened in Beijing: Putin, Obama, Xi — and the back story the media won’t tell you

November 13, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Ukraine, Iran’s nukes, the price of oil: There are ties worthy of a Bourne film, if the media connected the dots By way of events on the foreign side, the past few weeks start to resemble some once-in-a-while event in…

The New York Times doesn’t want you to understand this Vladimir Putin speech

November 6, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The Russian leader delivers an important foreign policy address we should consider. The Times botches it badly Give me a sec to count. In my lifetime the Soviet Union and latterly the Russian Federation have had nine leaders. Stalin’s death…

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