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Lapdog media learns nothing, beats war drums again

Lapdog media learns nothing, beats war drums again

August 29, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Have we forgotten Judith Miller already? Or Colin Powell at the U.N.? Before attacking Syria, let’s know the truth As of this writing, early Thursday morning, some Syrians are scheduled to pay with their lives for America’s “credibility.” The bombarding…

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…

New York Times: Complicit in the destruction of Egyptian democracy

New York Times: Complicit in the destruction of Egyptian democracy

August 18, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

U.S. policy is clear: No democracy for Islamic majorities. Why does the media parrot Obama’s Orwellian double talk? We finish a tragic, fateful week in Egypt. There seems no turning back from its flows of blood and its political reversals,…

There is no terrorist threat: The feds want you to think there is, compliant media goes along

There is no terrorist threat: The feds want you to think there is, compliant media goes along

August 9, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

“Chatter” from “affiliates” causes a “crisis,” while media reports nonsense generated to justify NSA surveillance Summertime, and the chicanery is easy. The Obama administration’s latest rendering of our invisible but eternal “terrorist threat,” I mean. After a week of ghost…

Snowden, Manning: The face of patriotism

Snowden, Manning: The face of patriotism

August 2, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden are really standing up to those who would radically reinterpret the Constitution A big week on the spookery front — and some of the news is good. With asylum in Russia, Edward Snowden stands a…

A threat Israel must listen to

A threat Israel must listen to

July 26, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

New European Union guidelines over the West Bank could force Netanyahu to the table — and lead to real talks Remember when the U.S. used to call itself “the honest broker” in the Middle East, conjuring the image of blind…

They still hate us: No one wants to be America, anymore

They still hate us: No one wants to be America, anymore

July 18, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Forget the standard lunacy that emerging nations “hate our freedoms.” They just don’t want to be Westernized It is common enough, and true, to say that what happens in Egypt as it stumbles through its political dawn or dusk —…

The Coup in Egypt: A Failure Greater than Morsi

The Coup in Egypt: A Failure Greater than Morsi

July 8, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The removal from power of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s duly elected president will never change one irrefutable truth: If you applaud or support military coups in democracies—even young, wrongheaded democracies—you aid in the making of a very messy world. Only a…

America’s imperial decline: Must Dick Cheney always be president?

America’s imperial decline: Must Dick Cheney always be president?

July 3, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Barack Obama talks like a constitutional lawyer, but acts like Dick Cheney. Snowden shows it’s the same old America Edward Snowden has been on the lam for nearly three weeks now. The 30-year-old computer whiz has gone from Hawaii to…

As the Middle East Unravels, the US Pulls No Strings

July 1, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Much of the Middle East is suddenly coming unglued–with it, years of US effort to encourage democratic order in the region will go to waste. It is time for Washington to do something very smart–nearly nothing. Syria and Egypt are…

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