CounterPunch Op-Ed
Mel Goodman is the national security columnist for counterpunch.org.
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- American Exceptionalism: Our Gun Culture at Home and Abroad
- The Danger of Worsening Relations With Both Russia and China
- The United States Specializes in Exaggerating the Threat
- What Russian Folklore Can Tell Us About Russia
- U.S. Intelligence Boasting Intensifies Russian-American Proxy War
- New York Times’ Hall of Shame: Ross Douthat Rivals Duranty and Miller
- Clinton’s Revisionism on NATO Expansion
- Another Genocide: Bucha Joins Guernica and Babi Yar
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New York Times’ Hall of Shame: Ross Douthat Rivals Duranty & Miller
In response to the question “Is Putin committing genocide,” Douthat concluded “Not yet, folks….” In doing so, Douthat ignores mounting evidence of Putin’s fratricidal warfare to destroy or at least traumatize a country and its people. The Russian army is making no effort to hide crimes that include summary executions and booby traps that will target children in their playgrounds.
Clinton’s Revisionism on NATO Expansion
Former President Bill Clinton will retain a certain notoriety over the years because of L’Affaire Lewinsky and his initial efforts to lie his way out of a political disaster that led to his impeachment. In the current issue of The Atlantic, Clinton has engaged in an act of historical revisionism to put the best face possible on his fateful expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the 1990s.
