Patrick Foy, Author at Taki's Magazine

Patrick Foy

Patrick Foy is a writer and photographer and the author of The Unauthorized World Situation Report. You can read more at www.PatrickFoyDossier.com.

Cracking Croquet

Patrick Foy

Judging by the hijinks and makeup on display at the recently-concluded World Cup, soccer, ...

McChrystal’s Firing Not Worth a Footnote

Patrick Foy

Patrick Buchanan commented on Friday about the cashiering of General Stanley McChrystal. B...

Helen Thomas” Overblown Israel Affair

Patrick Foy

Last Thursday, somebody stuck a video camera into the mug of legendary White House reporte...

50 Years Later, Breathless Still Resonates and Exasperates

Patrick Foy

Is Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless the most overrated movie of all time? Of course not....

Chomsky vs. Israel, and the Incident at Allenby Bridge

Patrick Foy

Word reached these shores last week that Professor Noam Chomsky—the celebrated publi...

Recrossing the Rubicon

Patrick Foy

A recent report by Scott McConnell, editor-at-large of The American Conservative, that Emp...

The Fake Iranian Crisis

Patrick Foy

Let’s see. We have an oil gusher out of control in the Gulf of Mexico with no end in...

Arizona: All About the Votes

Patrick Foy

My tailor is just one shade lighter than Obama. He is from the Dominican Republic, and spe...

An American in Zurich

Patrick Foy

Zurich has a reputation for being stodgy, but it ai...

The Cresta Run

Patrick Foy

Soon after starting from “Junction” the first time on the Cresta Run, my mind ...

The Missing Links…

Patrick Foy

My last article “The Sack of Annapolis” generated a minor firestorm from respo...

Lies, Ignorance and “Useful Idiots”…

Patrick Foy

We all let old newspapers pile up, don’t we? For my peace of mind, I hope so. At wha...

Rightly or wrongly, we will be held responsible for the outcome in Palestine and for the ultimate fate of the Palestinians. In a real sense, we will be paying for it. Actually, we have been paying for it for a long time, and not just in terms of “foreign aid”

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Endstation Moscow

Patrick Foy

The terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 mark a very significant turning point in Ame...

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The NIE Revisited

Patrick Foy

For the Cheney-Bush White House, the recent NIE concerning Iran’s nuclear capability...

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The Robinson Jeffers-Charles Bukowski Connection

Patrick Foy

It must have been via one of Charles Bukowski’s many interviews that I got a lead to...

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World War III on Hold

Patrick Foy

“Nothing can come of nothing” Shakespeare’s King Lear said, and it would...

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Annapolis Afterthought

Patrick Foy

Everybody is going through the motions again as part of the ongoing charade known as the M...

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Vierzehnheiligen

Patrick Foy

It is a quiet, country road going uphill. I had a beer for breakfast in the train station ...

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Was It The Oil, All Along?

Patrick Foy

Take note of a compelling article in the London Review of Books late last month by Jim Hol...

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Mykonos

Patrick Foy

Greece was not green like I had expected from Renaissance poetry about Arcadia. Delphi and...

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The “Impossibility” of George W. Bush

Patrick Foy

Rest assured that the subject matter of Pearl Harbor and 9/11 will be revisited in the nea...

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The 9/11 Atrocity and Pearl Harbor

Patrick Foy

There is a Washington insider named Michael Gerson who wrote speeches for the Cheney White...

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The Billionaires

Patrick Foy

Unlike Taki, I understand the fascination with the very rich. For the first time in 2007, ...

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Francis Fukuyama, Then and Now

Patrick Foy

Another one of those important books which I have failed to read is Professor Francis Fuku...

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Two Reviews; One Conclusion

Patrick Foy

There have been two intriguing book reviews over last weekend in the establishment press. ...

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