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The New York Times does what it’s told: What the media’s not telling you about our next likely foreign intervention

The New York Times does what it’s told: What the media’s not telling you about our next likely foreign intervention

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

Drumbeat to arm Ukraine forces gets louder. Even Brookings and Times “liberals” are on board. That means danger… This column is a little bit about Ukraine, and we have brand-new things to think about as of this week. It is…

Our dangerous new McCarthyism: Russia, Noam Chomsky and what the media’s not telling you about the new Cold War

Our dangerous new McCarthyism: Russia, Noam Chomsky and what the media’s not telling you about the new Cold War

January 29, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Perverse, diabolical obsession: Policy cliques in D.C. have no intention of desisting in this war until they win it It is time to attempt that hardest of things—to see ourselves for who we are, to see what it is we…

Distortions, lies and omissions: The New York Times won’t tell you the real story behind Ukraine, Russian economic collapse

Distortions, lies and omissions: The New York Times won’t tell you the real story behind Ukraine, Russian economic collapse

January 20, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

International papers will cover America’s role in the world honestly. Only our best paper willingly blinds itself A note arrived a few days ago from one of my best informants in Europe. He had just met across a hotel dining…

Beyond the foreign policy lies: Our compliant media and the truth about American exceptionalism

Beyond the foreign policy lies: Our compliant media and the truth about American exceptionalism

January 1, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

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

Fallout from Obama’s Russia Strategy Is Spreading through Europe

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

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

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…

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