“We must learn to disobey.”
‘How does one live in dignity?’ BAZENHEID, Switzerland, 20 April—When I arrived here earlier this month for another of the lectures I am invited to deliver twice-yearly, my remarks were partly written and partly still in sketched-out notes. That evening,…
“‘This war is the result of a coup.’”
The long, steady Zionist takeover in Washington is now complete. There is no longer any flinching from this. We were as stunned as many others to read the closely reported account of how, minute-by-minute, Bibi Netanyahu led the Trump regime…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Diplomacy’s Last Breath
Trump, in his regime’s serial dishonesty, has reshaped the conventions of American diplomacy in the Israeli fashion. He has turned the U.S. into the same sort of pariah — never to be trusted. How long did it take for the…
“The ‘civil death’ of Hüseyin Doğru.”
A 21st century narrative of dread. 7 April—It will be a year ago next month that Hüseyin Doğru, a German journalist residing in Berlin, has lived under European Union sanctions. He is the first German citizen to find his name…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A German Journalist’s ‘Civil Death’
Hüseyin Dogru is the first E.U. citizen to be sanctioned by the union and the first journalist to land on the list because of his work. What is Dogru’s crime? Don’t ask: He has not committed one. The following note…
“The defense of Palestinian culture.”
In conversation with the director of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit. “They want to erase our memories.”—Amer Shomali 31 March—I will always remember my first sight of the Palestinian Museum. Its austere geometry and dazzling white limestone is arresting in every…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Internationalism Then & Now
The U.N. Security Council’s condemnation of Iran’s retaliatory strikes, along with the isolation of Cuba, show what U.S. assertion of raw power is doing to what remains of internationalist principles. Consider these following passages in a text that is now entered officially…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Pedro Sánchez’s ‘No a la Guerra’
Spain’s leader, with his government and his people, is signaling that the time has come to challenge the trans–Atlantic status quo and ultimately the world order altogether. I saw a video the other day that reminded me: Images often lie, which…
“The ‘empire of pretend’ goes to war (again).”
A podcast exchange with Patrik Baab. 16 MARCH—“The information age is actually a media age,” the late John Pilger once observed. “We have war by media, censorship by media, demonology by media, retribution by media, diversion by media—a Surreal assembly…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Iran & Ukraine — Two Theaters in the Non–West’s Single War for Parity
In Iran and Ukraine, what is at stake — what is fought for and against — is a rebalancing of power that will prove of world-historical magnitude when it is at last accomplished. First came news that, on April 8, Israeli…