Beyond the foreign policy lies: Our compliant media and the truth about American exceptionalism
A new year begins, and America must resolve to do different & better. Here’s a roadmap. It starts with clear eyes We have put away our argyle cardigans, drawn close to the fire, listened to the Crosby records, and roasted…
Fallout from Obama’s Russia Strategy Is Spreading through Europe
The Obama administration’s sanctions against Russia, reluctantly supported by the Europeans, bite more deeply every day. But it is also clearer with each daily news report that Russians are not going to suffer alone. Russia’s immediate neighbors and the Europeans…
Paging Keri Russell: Russia, Cuba and the truth about Putin the U.S. media doesn’t want you to know
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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…
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