Patrick Lawrence: The Democrats’ Assault on Diplomacy
Actions speak louder than words and the Dems’ “diplomacy first” approach has been all bark and no bite. It is only two years since Joe Biden, hitting the hustings in pursuit of the White House, had to promise big change…
“‘Covert lawlessness.'”
Aaron Good on American exception, empire, and ‘the deep state.’ The Scrum is very pleased indeed to welcome Aaron Good into its pages as we publish these extracts from American Exception: Empire and the Deep State, the book Skyhorse brought out earlier…
Patrick Lawrence: Europe’s Self Destruction
Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it. Absolutely remarkable, Western media’s determination to ignore the recent Baltic Sea detonations, which knocked out the Nord Stream…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Grave New World
Biden’s long-delayed National Security Strategy is the kind of pablum that disguises danger and comes with a price. The Biden administration — excuse me, the Biden–Harris administration if you please — has at last released its National Security Strategy, a document…
Patrick Lawrence: The Non-West Coalesces
Nations representing more than 80 percent of the global population and a like percentage of global gross domestic product are perfectly capable of seeing the Biden administration’s pointed provocations and do not approve. Something of epochal importance happened in Vienna,…
Patrick Lawrence: Our Shared Addiction to Empire
“If the Columbus myth has been thoroughly discounted, what is it that causes us to continue closing the banks, stopping the mail, and marching in parades on a Monday around October 12 each year?” Columbus Day: I wasn’t sure America…
Patrick Lawrence: Sins of Silence
The media’s treatment of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage is reminiscent of a time in the 60s when disaster could have been avoided with responsible reporting. In early April 1961, New York Times correspondent Tad Szulc filed a story from…
Patrick Lawrence: The Strong, and the Merely Powerful
In the world order now emerging, it is genuinely strong nations that will prevail over those reliant on power alone, and force will have little to do with it. Vladimir Putin’s speech from the Kremlin last Friday, delivered to the nation…
“‘A C.I.A. theme park.'”
Ukraine as John Pilger saw it eight years ago. John Pilger, the noted Australian-British journalist and filmmaker, published the following piece in The Guardian on 13 May 2014, three months after the U.S.-cultivated coup in Kiev set Ukraine on the path to…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: War as Presentation
As the U.S. midterm elections approach, the gap between Western media’s depiction of the war in Ukraine and the actual war waged on the ground appears to be widening more dramatically. We are urged at every turn to dismiss everything Vladimir Putin…