Patrick L. Smith (page 4)

Patrick Smith is Salon’s foreign affairs columnist. A longtime correspondent abroad, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune and The New Yorker, he is also an essayist, critic and editor. His most recent books are “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century” (Yale, 2013) and Somebody Else’s Century: East and West in a Post-Western World (Pantheon, 2010). Follow him @thefloutist. His web site is patricklawrence.us.

Bernie Sanders
Our Bernie Sanders moment: This July 4, remember only true independence and revolution ever brings change Patrick L. Smith
"Where is the public outcry for an explanation of how the longest war in American history is on a course to end in failure?" Patrick L. Smith
Vladimir Putin, Ashton Carter
We restarted the Cold War: The real story about the NATO buildup that the New York Times won't tell you Patrick L. Smith
We are the propagandists: The real story about how The New York Times and the White House has turned truth in the Ukraine on its head Patrick L. Smith
Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Christine Lagarde
Big banks run everything: Austerity, the IMF and the real story about world economy that the media won't tell you Patrick L. Smith
America on Memorial Day: Heavily armed, dangerous, unstable Patrick L. Smith
John Kerry
John Kerry admits defeat: The Ukraine story the media won't tell, and why U.S. retreat is a good thing Patrick L. Smith
Journalist Seymour Hersh attends Al Jazeera Forum
Seymour Hersh vs. Judy Miller: The truth about Bin Laden's death -- and the anonymous government sources The New York Times is delighted to print as "truth" Patrick L. Smith
The New York Times does its government's bidding: Here's what you're not being told about U.S. troops in Ukraine Patrick L. Smith
Barack Obama and Shinzo Abe
The real story behind Shinzo Abe's visit: China, TPP and what the media won't tell you about this state visit Patrick L. Smith
Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev
"Architects of American policy towards Russia and Ukraine are destroying American national security": Stephen F. Cohen on the truths U.S. media and politicians hide Patrick L. Smith
Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin
The New York Times "basically rewrites whatever the Kiev authorities say": Stephen F. Cohen on the U.S./Russia/Ukraine history the media won't tell you Patrick L. Smith
Switzerland Iran Nuclear Talks
Neocons get desperate: The real reason why Iran deal drives the right-wing nuts Patrick L. Smith
Bill Clinton
Lee Kuan Yew is finally dead -- and America's elites are eulogizing a tyrant and psychological monster Patrick L. Smith
Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, William Kristol, John McCain
America's immoral exceptionalism: The lie we keep telling ourselves about foreign policy and democracy Patrick L. Smith