John McCain, cranky, warmongering madman, again: Why does the New York Times print these lunatic ravings?
An out-of-control McCain calls for Obama to draw a red line in Crimea. The New York Times just goes right along One develops an odd liking for John McCain over time—attenuated but not grudging. The Republican senator who once found…
Propaganda, lies and the New York Times: Everything you really need to know about Ukraine
The media keeps buying the American spin on what’s happening in Ukraine. Let’s cut through the fog You need a machete these days to whack through the thicket of misinformation, disinformation, spin, propaganda and straight-out lying that daily envelopes the…
The Ukraine Delusion: Freedom Over the Economy
Charges and counter-charges now overtake the Ukraine crisis. It is a thicket at this point, with contradictions and hypocrisy in plentiful supply. The self-appointed government in Kiev, the parliament in constitutionally autonomous Crimea, the Russians, the Americans and Europeans—all miss…
Propaganda and nonsense: Even more New York Times hypocrisy
What the New York Times and John Kerry pretend to forget is the real history of America’s noxious role in the world “You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on a…
The Limits of East-West Fusion in Ukraine
For a few days after protesters of varied political stripes and legislators of different motives deposed President Viktor Yanukovych, you could call Ukraine a story of new possibilities. In a weekend, it turned into a story of limits and futility….
Thomas Friedman, supreme toady: Also, shameless!
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,…
The Two Ukraines Portend a Disastrous Possibility
In less than a week, the simmering crisis in Ukraine has tipped into tragedy and tumbled straight down to existential calamity. As Viktor Yanukovych fled Saturday from the presidential compound in Kiev to a hotel room in the eastern city…
John Kerry’s policy of surrender: His failures are redefining American exceptionalism
Perhaps the secretary of state knows what he is doing: His many failures actually point to a smarter foreign policy We have just marked a year since John Kerry launched himself, at 69, as America’s chief diplomat. And for most…
The world is right to hate us: Arrogance, ignorance and obscene foreign policy
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…
How the White House Is Blowing Off Europe
The Obama administration needs to declare a “pivot to Europe” policy, and quickly. Not that the famous pivot to Asia has amounted to much: It drifts somewhere in the Pacific like a dead fish. But relations between the U.S. and…
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