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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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, looks back at US President Barack Obama, left, as they arrive with Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, at the the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

These are lies the New York Times wants you to believe about Russia

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(AP/Mark Lennihan/Photo montage by Salon)

New York Times propagandists exposed: Finally, the truth about Ukraine and Putin emerges

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A turkey and Thomas Friedman (Reuters/Lucas Jackson/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-91190p1.html'>panbazil</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

“Our media have betrayed us incessantly this year”

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John Kerry, Thomas Friedman (Reuters/Lucas Jackson/AP/Matt Dunham/Photo montage by Salon)

We are the terrorists too: Thomas Friedman and John Kerry are misleading you about the Middle East

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, looks back at US President Barack Obama, left, as they arrive with Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, at the the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

What really happened in Beijing: Putin, Obama, Xi — and the back story the media won’t tell you

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Vladimir Putin (Reuters/Yves Herman)

The New York Times doesn’t want you to understand this Vladimir Putin speech

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“Have we forgotten how beautiful it is to be on fire for justice?”

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Secretary of State John Kerry (Reuters/Lefteris Pitarakis)

We’ve corporatized the planet: The unseemly secret about America’s foreign policy

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(Reuters/Jason Reed)

Lies the media repeats about Iraq: Phony patriotism, fake Syrian “moderates” and the very real end of empire

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Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin (AP/Evan Vucci)

“A steady flow of stupidity”: Reality in Ukraine — and Obama and the New York Times’ bizarro parallel universe

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A sign showing the direction and distance to cities stands as a metal board in the shape of a gunman is placed on an old bunker at an observation point on Mt. Bental in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, overlooking the border with Syria, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) (AP)

It’s time to bomb ISIS: Yes, America helped sow these seeds, but this is the rare group that should be called “terrorists”

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(Reuters/Nir Elias)

After the genocide: What’s next for Gaza and the hope for Middle East peace?

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Jill Abramson speaks at the commencement ceremony at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem,N.C., May 19, 2014. (AP/Nell Redmond)

Jill Abramson’s sad admission: “I don’t think the press, in general, did publish any stories that upset the Bush White House”

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Wolf Blitzer, Brian Williams, David Gregory (AP/Chris Pizzello/Peter Kramer/Salon)

Propaganda ministers, all of them: Our pathetic, spoon-fed media pushes half-truths, again

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Francisco Ramos holds up a picture of his son, whose decomposed body was found in the Texas desert, as he waits for the arrival of his son's body, in Customs, in Guatemala City, Friday, July 11, 2014. The remains of Gilberto Francisco Ramos, the 15 year old boy who died in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, trying to reach the United States alone, was delivered to his family on Friday. (AP/Moises Castillo)

The truth about the immigration “crisis”: Our drug policies and U.S.-backed tyrants created Central America’s culture of violence

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An Ukrainian government army soldier stands in front of the government building with a Ukrainian flag on the roof in the city of Slovyansk. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Hypocrisy, incompetence and cold inhumanity: Ukraine heads for its most gruesome hour

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Dick Cheney’s demented last laugh: Neoconservatives destroyed American exceptionalism, but made Obama collateral damage

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John McCain (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Bomb-crazy, “do something” neocons must be stopped — or Iraq will be Obama’s Vietnam

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(AP/Charles Dharapak)

George W. Bush’s horrific, deadly blunder: Would Saddam Hussein be better than Iraq’s new hell?

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A FDNY fire truck from Ladder Co. 3, in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

American exceptionalism and American innocence: The misleading history and messages of the 9/11 Memorial Museum

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Barack Obama, Charles Krauthammer (Reuters/Yuri Gripas/Fox News)

“Literally pointless”: Charles Krauthammer and disastrously wrong neocons misread Obama, again

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(AP/Carolyn Kaster)

God won’t save us: Memorial Day, honest history and our new military-industrial complex

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Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin (AP/Evan Vucci)

They’re lying about Ukraine, again: Primitive prejudice, stupidity and the reflexive compliance of the New York Times

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(AP/Chris Usher/Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Reuters/Eduardo Munoz/Salon)

Samantha Power’s brazen hypocrisy: Media swallows propaganda, but here’s the truth about Ukraine

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