Patrick Lawrence: That Big, Beautiful Summit in Alaska
No, the Trump–Putin summit at a joint-forces military base in Anchorage last Friday did not produce an agreement on a ceasefire in Ukraine. President Trump made no reference to “severe consequences” if Vladimir Putin did not consent to such an…
“‘Hungry in their souls.’”
I received an email from my friend Samia Khoury not long ago. In it she shared a letter written by a man in Gaza. This is the second such letter to arrive recently in my inbox—addressed to another and forwarded…
‘Civilisation is no longer the norm.’
The 18 truths of Mahathir bin Mohamad. What does the non–West, if we can consider the majority of humanity as one, think of us, we in the West, if we can consider the West as one? It is a good…
Patrick Lawrence: Yes, It’s a Genocide
Correct nomenclature, as I have long argued, is essential for our understanding of things, people, events. Unless we name something properly we will not know how to judge it or what the right course of action may be in response…
“The ethnic-cleansing of Deir Alla.”
In memory of a community. 3 AUGUST—On 17 July The Floutist published “Zionist terrorism in the West Bank,” a report documenting settler attacks on the Bedouin gathering of Deir Alla—a community of seventeen families, including homes and outbuildings—11 kilometers southeast of Bethlehem…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Washington Takes on the BRICS
Trump’s lashing out at the group of non-Western nations is so clumsy, so off the mark, so utterly unaware of where the hands are on history’s clock. Well, it took long enough for the White House and the policy cliques…
Patrick Lawrence: Sun Valley vs. Queensbridge
Maybe there was a time in the past when a candidate to become New York City’s mayor prompted as much fervor in some quarters and as much fear and loathing in others as Zohran Mamdani, but I do not recall…
“Zionist terrorism in the West Bank.”
From the village of Kisan. This post may be too long for those reading in email. To access the entire article, click on the headline above. 17 JULY—“I can see things are getting worse.” These are words sent yesterday via…
“Trump, Bibi, and Ayn Rand’s ghost.”
Narcissists and their theorist. 13 JULY—That stunning video of President Trump and Bibi Netanyahu across a dining table at the White House the evening of Monday, 7 July: Who can make sense of it? A murderer wanted under international law as…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: How to Read the Durham Appendix
The method of those who built Russiagate’s tower of lies and disinformation grows clearer and the list of their names longer. Not that we needed more evidence to dismantle the extravagant tower of lies and disinformation known as Russiagate: This was…