PATRICK LAWRENCE: The War Dept’s War on Media
The Pentagon’s new restrictions will bar correspondents covering the American military from covering the American military, as the Trump regime attempts to exert full-spectrum control over media. It should be evident by now to anyone paying even casual attention that exerting…
“Recognition amid genocide.”
Palestinians speak. 29 SEPTEMBER—The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly turned out to be as momentous as many had anticipated. On Sunday 21 September Australia, Canada, Portugal, and the United Kingdom recognized Palestinian statehood. The following day, six…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Age of Unreason
Remarks delivered in late August at the annual congress of Mut zur Ethik, which translates (a little awkwardly) as “the courage of one’s ethics.” This group gathers in Zürich’s environs each summer to hear a variety of speakers consider a selected…
“The Kirk narrative doesn’t hold.”
To whom goes the good? So many questions since a sniper with demonstrated skill assassinated Charlie Kirk in broad daylight on Sept. 10—this as he addressed a crowd of several thousand no less. We have only our questions as of…
Patrick Lawrence: To Whom Goes the Good?
So many questions arise since a sniper with demonstrated skill assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk in broad daylight on Sept. 10 — this as he addressed a crowd of several thousand no less. We have only our questions as of…
“Settler madness.”
Sanity and psychosis in the West Bank. 11 SEPTEMBER—I recently delivered a talk at the annual Mut zur Ethik conference in Sirnach, Switzerland. Held each summer at the end of August for the past thirty-two years, Mut zur Ethik, which translates as “courage…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Nation of Narcissists
Narcissism is the open-and-shut condition of the elites who fashion and execute American foreign policy. And they are utterly incapable of seeing their country as it is. All those malign authoritarians, more than 20 of them, who gathered in Tianjin…
“‘Staged actions’ in Ukraine.”
A festival of media concoctions. The decades-long Ukraine crisis, since this current phase began with the U.S.–cultivated coup in Kiev eleven years ago, has occasioned more misinformation, disinformation, false-flag operations and propaganda than any other in our memories. This is…
Patrick Lawrence: The State of the ‘State of Palestine’
United Nations General Assembly sessions, held each September since 51 nations convened in a Methodist church hall in London in 1946, come and go and mostly go without event. The General Assembly is set to begin its 80th session come Sept….
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