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How Obama’s White House Lost Ukraine in a Few Stupid Steps

How Obama’s White House Lost Ukraine in a Few Stupid Steps

April 21, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

No one wants to say so, but the Obama administration has backed the wrong horse in Ukraine, and the misguided wager is a big loss. It is hardly the president’s first failure on the foreign side, but it may prove…

Liberal media myth officially dead: Brazen propaganda, historical amnesia and the New York Times

Liberal media myth officially dead: Brazen propaganda, historical amnesia and the New York Times

April 16, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Does Obama have control of his own intelligence agencies? Also, the Times has an ironic definition of propaganda This shapes up as an important week in the Ukraine crisis. We have already witnessed the extent to which the provisional government…

Someone teach John Kerry about history!

Someone teach John Kerry about history!

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

There’s a reason why Putin makes Kerry and the president look clownish: He understands the history others forget Many Americans flinch from the latest turn in the Ukraine crisis now that Vladimir Putin has taken control of it. It was…

Federalizing Ukraine Gives Putin Exactly What He Wants

Federalizing Ukraine Gives Putin Exactly What He Wants

March 31, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Whatever anyone may think of Vladimir Putin, there is no longer any denying his mastery of statecraft. The Russian president’s gifts for surprise and exploiting the mistakes of those set against him, evident all along in the Ukraine crisis, now…

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….

Does Putin Want to Carve Up Ukraine and Take the Spoils?

Does Putin Want to Carve Up Ukraine and Take the Spoils?

March 17, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Rich in oil and minerals, the economic benefits would help the Russian economy. As Crimeans voted overwhelmingly Sunday to quit Ukraine and join Russia, Vladimir Putin continued his calibrated campaign to increase the Russian presence in and around Ukraine. The famously…

John McCain, cranky, warmongering madman, again: Why does the New York Times print these lunatic ravings?

John McCain, cranky, warmongering madman, again: Why does the New York Times print these lunatic ravings?

March 17, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

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

Propaganda, lies and the New York Times: Everything you really need to know about Ukraine

March 12, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

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

The Ukraine Delusion: Freedom Over the Economy

March 10, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

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

Propaganda and nonsense: Even more New York Times hypocrisy

March 6, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

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…

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