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The government’s authoritarian war on journalism: How a flaccid press enabled this Orwellian disgrace

The government’s authoritarian war on journalism: How a flaccid press enabled this Orwellian disgrace

August 25, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Officials launch an all-out assault on free press — with nary an objection from the Fourth Estate’s guardians. Many readers will know, or know of, the Committee to Protect Journalists. It has been around since the early 1980s and does…

We’ve corporatized the planet: The unseemly secret about America’s foreign policy

We’ve corporatized the planet: The unseemly secret about America’s foreign policy

October 7, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

In Ukraine, however, these efforts seem to have failed. Here’s why that’s a good thing We do not read much about Ukraine lately, do we? With unseemly speed, among the most important developments of the last few years has fallen…

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…

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