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Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran

Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran

September 13, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

America’s three principal adversaries signify the shape of the world to come: a post-Western world of coexistence. But neoliberal and neocon ideology is unable to to accept global pluralism and multipolarity, argues Patrick Lawrence. The Trump administration has brought U.S….

An Interview With Stephen Kinzer

An Interview With Stephen Kinzer

September 11, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

The award-winning foreign correspondent and author of The True Flag speaks on the 120-year history of American intervention in the world. When I started reading The True Flag, Stephen Kinzer’s latest book, I got only a few pages in before thinking, “I’ve read him…

Reinventing the Foreign Correspondent

Reinventing the Foreign Correspondent

April 30, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, CounterPunch

Between 1990 and 2004, three years before he died at 74, Ryszard Kapuściński gave a series of lectures around Europe. These shared a theme that suggests a late-in-life preoccupation. A half-dozen of Kapuściński’s talks were published posthumously (in 2008) as…

`Manifest Duplicity'

`Manifest Duplicity’

August 7, 2000 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Nation.

BLOWBACK: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. By Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan. 268 pp. $26. Some Sundays back, the New York Times fronted a story from its Paris correspondent, Suzanne Daley, about the fear and loathing Americans induce among Europeans…

Dark victory

Dark victory

October 23, 1999 · by Patrick Smith · in Elsewhere

US post-Cold War triumphalism masks a manifest uncertainty about its destiny in the 21st century In late April 1945, on one of the final days of WWII, a poignant scene unfolded on the banks of the River Elbe some miles southwest…

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