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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.

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“A corrosive dereliction of duty”: Why the New York Times’ America-first journalism is so dangerous

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Putin bests Obama — and that’s good! Also, Reddit helps catch more New York Times propaganda

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Barack Obama, John Brennan (AP/Carolyn Kaster/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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

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A U.N. chemical weapons expert holds a plastic bag containing samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Damascus, August 29, 2013. (Reuters/Mohamed Abdullah)

Barack Obama pulls a George W. Bush: Lies, misinformation and chemical weapons

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Secretary of State John Kerry (Reuters/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Someone teach John Kerry about history!

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Vladimir Putin (Reuters/Yves Herman)

The New York Times manufactures ignorance: More half-truths about Ukraine

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

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Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin (AP/Evan Vucci)

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

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Propaganda and nonsense: Even more New York Times hypocrisy

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Thomas Friedman, supreme toady: Also, shameless!

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John Kerry (Reuters/Evan Vucci)

John Kerry’s policy of surrender: His failures are redefining American exceptionalism

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The world is right to hate us: Arrogance, ignorance and obscene foreign policy

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Hamid Karzai, John Kerry (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail/Gary Cameron)

You’re being lied to about Afghanistan: The terrorists there include us

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Glenn Greenwald’s heroism: Standing up to our new Orwellian police state

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Misinformation, disinformation, lies: Can the New York Times’ foreign coverage be trusted at all?

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Washington hates real democracy: The reality is worse than anything Robert Gates suggests

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Our Orwellian reality: Drone wars, surveillance, a lapdog media — and you

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Get over yourself, New York Times. You’re not standing up to anyone

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American empire is over: Somebody tell John Kerry!

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Reform the New York Times! Media must stop protecting companies tied to Chinese corruption

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Chomsky’s right: The New York Times’ latest big lie

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Middling logic, middling newspaper: New York Times bows to government, again, on NSA

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I want American foreign policy to fail

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Rethinking American exceptionalism

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