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Propaganda, lies and the New York Times: Everything you really need to know about Ukraine

Propaganda, lies and the New York Times: Everything you really need to know about Ukraine

March 12, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The media keeps buying the American spin on what’s happening in Ukraine. Let’s cut through the fog You need a machete these days to whack through the thicket of misinformation, disinformation, spin, propaganda and straight-out lying that daily envelopes the…

Propaganda and nonsense: Even more New York Times hypocrisy

Propaganda and nonsense: Even more New York Times hypocrisy

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

What the New York Times and John Kerry pretend to forget is the real history of America’s noxious role in the world “You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on a…

The Limits of East-West Fusion in Ukraine

The Limits of East-West Fusion in Ukraine

March 3, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

For a few days after protesters of varied political stripes and legislators of different motives deposed President Viktor Yanukovych, you could call Ukraine a story of new possibilities. In a weekend, it turned into a story of limits and futility….

Thomas Friedman, supreme toady: Also, shameless!

Thomas Friedman, supreme toady: Also, shameless!

March 1, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Shame on the Times and other media for falsely spinning Ukraine events. We now await the inevitable U.S. betrayal Months of discontent in Kiev and the western portion of Ukraine combust into an explosion of provocation and response, unwarranted violence,…

The Two Ukraines Portend a Disastrous Possibility

The Two Ukraines Portend a Disastrous Possibility

February 24, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

In less than a week, the simmering crisis in Ukraine has tipped into tragedy and tumbled straight down to existential calamity. As Viktor Yanukovych fled Saturday from the presidential compound in Kiev to a hotel room in the eastern city…

John Kerry’s policy of surrender: His failures are redefining American exceptionalism

John Kerry’s policy of surrender: His failures are redefining American exceptionalism

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

Perhaps the secretary of state knows what he is doing: His many failures actually point to a smarter foreign policy We have just marked a year since John Kerry launched himself, at 69, as America’s chief diplomat. And for most…

Renzi, Italy’s Man of the Moment, Has a Lot to Prove

Renzi, Italy’s Man of the Moment, Has a Lot to Prove

February 17, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Sometime this week or next, if all goes to plan, 39–year–old Matteo Renzi will become the youngest prime minister in Italian history. He will form the nation’s 62nd government since 1945 and the fourth since its descent into crisis in…

The world is right to hate us: Arrogance, ignorance and obscene foreign policy

The world is right to hate us: Arrogance, ignorance and obscene foreign policy

February 17, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

This White House was supposed to be different. But our arrogant foreign policy has been the same since the 1950s Every time we overhear American diplomats talking when we are not supposed to, the conduct of American foreign policy sounds…

You’re being lied to about Afghanistan: The terrorists there include us

You’re being lied to about Afghanistan: The terrorists there include us

January 30, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

When we treat civilians as collateral damage, no wonder Hamid Karzai trusts us as little as the U.S. trusts him Some readers may recall the joke that went around when George W. Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan shortly…

Glenn Greenwald’s heroism: Standing up to our new Orwellian police state

Glenn Greenwald’s heroism: Standing up to our new Orwellian police state

January 23, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Empty NSA reforms will change nothing. The surveillance state subverts the law — and the president is complicit The deed has been done, there now for all to see. President Obama’s speech on the authority of the National Security Agency confirms…

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