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Thomas Friedman, read your Chomsky: The New York Times gets Putin/Obama all wrong, again

Thomas Friedman, read your Chomsky: The New York Times gets Putin/Obama all wrong, again

October 6, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

“Do you realize now what you’ve done?” The best question about our Middle East disasters actually comes from Putin A lot of good people are asking a lot of good questions these days, and this is an excellent thing. On…

America owns this nightmare: Everything Thomas Friedman and the media gets wrong about the migrant crisis

America owns this nightmare: Everything Thomas Friedman and the media gets wrong about the migrant crisis

September 9, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The refugee disaster unfolding across Europe is the result of decades — even centuries — of Western policies It is not that the West, or America in particular, is responsible for everything that befalls our awful world. Readers sometimes make…

Let’s all pity Netanyahu and the GOP: Israel, Iran, irrational thinking — and Thomas Friedman’s usual muddled nonsense

Let’s all pity Netanyahu and the GOP: Israel, Iran, irrational thinking — and Thomas Friedman’s usual muddled nonsense

March 5, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

A reactionary leader addressing a reactionary legislature will expose the creeping irrelevance of them both Many readers will have seen Benjamin Netanyahu’s sentimentally charged but otherwise empty speech to Congress on Tuesday. If you missed it, you can watch it…

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…

The New York Times manufactures ignorance: More half-truths about Ukraine

The New York Times manufactures ignorance: More half-truths about Ukraine

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

Once again, the media and the foreign policy establishment are dangerously misreading history and current events Vladimir Putin was very Vlad this week, as 97 percent of voting Crimeans elected to quit the mess Ukraine has become and rejoin Russia….

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,…

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