“West Bank impunities.”
The starvation siege has begun. 14 JUNE—What follows is a series of alerts on settler and I.O.F. violence that arrived by text beginning in the second week of May. In photographs and videos, they document incidents near the villages of…
Journalists and Their Shadows (w/ Patrick Lawrence) | The Chris Hedges Report
This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Journalist A. J. Liebling famously said, “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” Today, in a world dominated by corporate capitalism — including subservient politicians and careerists —…
Journalists and Their Shadows (w/ Patrick Lawrence) | The Chris Hedges Report
Patrick Lawrence and Chris Hedges chronicle the decline of mainstream media and the craft of journalism, and the dark psychological reality behind media complicity in schemes of the powerful. This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Here is the link…
Patrick Lawrence: War in Our Time
BERLIN—Friedrich Merz has been in office as Germany’s new chancellor a matter of weeks, and already he has the German capital aflutter with worry about the increasing danger of a third world war. More to the point, while Germans are…
Patrick Lawrence: Waves Upon the Sea of Silence
A couple of weeks after Israel began its campaign of terror in Gaza two Octobers ago, a journalist and novelist named Omar El Akkad published a note on X, formerly known as Twitter, that has stayed with me ever since: One day,…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Diplomatic Chess, Ukraine the Pawn
In Istanbul, a door was pried open after a soap opera’s worth of chicanery in London, Paris, Berlin and Kiev. Now the question is what Trump can do to address Russia’s concerns. As was universally expected, little came out of Istanbul…
“Demolitions.”
Destruction and self-destruction. In the following update, Qadir al–Thaer—whose previous reporting appears here and here—reports on the recent demolition of a large residential building in the Palestinian community of Beit Ummar. The town of 18,000 inhabitants is located eleven kilometers north of the…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 4: Wanderers and Seekers
Editor’s note: Earlier versions of this story reported Germany’s shock when Friedrich Merz initially failed to win sufficient Bundestag votes to assume office. After intense negotiations, he won back the six votes needed to declare victory. Berlin, in the meantime,…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 3: A Culture of Submission
This is the third of four reports on Germany in crisis. Part 1 of this series is here and Part 2 here. BERLIN— I return briefly to those singular moments when Olaf Scholz stood next to President Joe Biden at a press conference on…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: For Whom the Drones Buzz
If military drones are “revolutionizing” instruments, then wherever we are, we are in a field of battle. Those drone attacks on five Russian airfields last week were nothing if not daring. No final report from Moscow yet, but three figures’ worth of Ukrainian…