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Paging Keri Russell: Russia, Cuba and the truth about Putin the U.S. media doesn’t want you to know

Paging Keri Russell: Russia, Cuba and the truth about Putin the U.S. media doesn’t want you to know

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

We are making mayhem in Russia, and reality is almost the opposite of what is being described in the press I cannot be the only one to note the remarkable sequence of events in the Obama White House last week….

Ukraine Starts Its March to Free-Market Capitalism

Ukraine Starts Its March to Free-Market Capitalism

December 15, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Ukraine watchers, to say nothing of Ukrainians, had better fasten their seatbelts. The passage of a former Soviet republic to free-market capitalism is about to begin. None of the players involved in this transition — the Poroshenko government in Kiev,…

These are lies the New York Times wants you to believe about Russia

These are lies the New York Times wants you to believe about Russia

December 10, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Our sanctions caused Russia’s downturn. They protect Big Oil, the well-connected, and make the world more dangerous You can look at the Russian economy two ways now and you should. So let’s: It is an important moment in the destruction…

New York Times propagandists exposed: Finally, the truth about Ukraine and Putin emerges

New York Times propagandists exposed: Finally, the truth about Ukraine and Putin emerges

December 3, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

NATO was the aggressor and got Ukraine wrong. Many months later, the media has eventually Well, well, well. Gloating is unseemly, especially in public, but give me this one, will you? It has been a long and lonely winter defending the…

What really happened in Beijing: Putin, Obama, Xi — and the back story the media won’t tell you

What really happened in Beijing: Putin, Obama, Xi — and the back story the media won’t tell you

November 13, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Ukraine, Iran’s nukes, the price of oil: There are ties worthy of a Bourne film, if the media connected the dots By way of events on the foreign side, the past few weeks start to resemble some once-in-a-while event in…

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…

“A steady flow of stupidity”: Reality in Ukraine — and Obama and the New York Times’ bizarro parallel universe

“A steady flow of stupidity”: Reality in Ukraine — and Obama and the New York Times’ bizarro parallel universe

September 9, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

A new cease-fire in Ukraine seems durable — despite best efforts of Washington and the media to provoke conflict We may or may not have a durable cease-fire in Ukraine, given reports of sporadic shelling and machine-gun fire, by who…

The Mess Obama Made on the Way to the So-Called Ceasefire in Ukraine

The Mess Obama Made on the Way to the So-Called Ceasefire in Ukraine

September 8, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Assuming the ceasefire declared in Ukraine as of sundown Friday holds—and the early signs are favorable—we celebrate the end of a conflict that has claimed a startling 2,600 lives since it broke out in April. But not so fast. It’s…

What a Deal Between Ukraine and Russia Could Look Like

What a Deal Between Ukraine and Russia Could Look Like

August 25, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

All eyes will focus this week on Minsk where Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko. After coming close to armed confrontation over the aid-laden convoy Russia sent into Ukraine’s eastern region last week, the encounter…

Obama’s Road to Unintended Consequences in Ukraine

Obama’s Road to Unintended Consequences in Ukraine

July 28, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Is the ever-tougher economic squeeze of Russia for its not-quite-clear role in the Ukraine crisis a 21st century rerun of the Treaty of Versailles, the recklessly punitive settlement that turned out to be the mulch of the global conflagration that defined…

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