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“Putin is the only major leader to utter a few simple truths about the role of the United States in the world today”

“Putin is the only major leader to utter a few simple truths about the role of the United States in the world today”

October 7, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Perry Anderson on foreign policy: America’s problem is it’s a global hegemon without global ideology legitimacy Part two of our conversation with Perry Anderson. Find part one here. Fifteen years ago, in the distant universe we now know as pre-September 11,…

How America built its empire: The real history of American foreign policy that the media won’t tell you

How America built its empire: The real history of American foreign policy that the media won’t tell you

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

Perry Anderson sits down with Salon to discuss the Cold War, Hiroshima, American exceptionalism, Iran and more The other day I wrote Perry Anderson, the subject of the following interview, to ask what he thought of the foreign policy debates,…

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