PATRICK LAWRENCE: The ‘See-No-Evil’ Phase of Russiagate
The media spinfest following the collapse of this conspiracy theory suggests our troubled republic simply cannot accept its errors, leaving us unable to learn from them. The long, destructive conspiracy theory known as Russiagate, the mother of them all, at last…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Latest Sinophobia Fest
Watch, read, and listen as Washington and its media clerks manufacture our consent for a full-dress Cold War with China. One hundred nine years ago, one G. G. Rupert published an extraordinary book called “The Yellow Peril, or The Orient…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Post-Pandemic Future
Will human civilization simply resume course or will we recognize the need for numerous far-reaching reforms? Full restoration or fundamental change: As the Covid–19 infection and fatality curves at last begin to flatten, the entire world now asks which of…
French doctor apologizes for Africa coronavirus test remarks after severe backlash
A French doctor who suggested that a possible treatment for the new coronavirus should be tested in Africa has apologized in the wake of widespread backlash on social media triggered by his comments. Jean-Paul Mira, the head of the intensive…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Defiles ‘Common Humanity’ During Pandemic
Washington’s priorities are maintaining divisions, suspicions, animosities and enmities as if there were no global humanitarian crisis. Cuba sends 50–odd doctors and nurses to Italy, among the nations the COVID–19 virus has hit hardest. It was Cuba alone that assisted…
Wider View Radio Podcast: Patrick Lawrence on the political truths made evident by the COVID-19 pandemic
I am very pleased to welcome writer and columnist Patrick Lawrence to Wider View. Patrick is the author of 5 books, has taught at universities in the US and abroad, and has worked as a journalist and columnist for the…
PressTV: Federal government incapable of properly responding to coronavirus crisis: Analyst
The US federal government lacks the “judgement” and “capacity” to assume leadership of the American nation in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, says an author and essayist. “We have no judgment. We have no imagination. We have no capacity to…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The US National Emergency
COVID-19 calls on us to consider our plundered commons and unite around four truths made conspicuous by the pandemic. Now that the Trump administration has declared the COVID–19 virus a national emergency, it is plain that this once-a-century catastrophe has some things…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Moscow’s Difficult Decision on Idlib
Turkey’s leader, who nurses dreams of some kind of neo–Ottoman restoration across the Middle East, is now on a reckless tear. As Recip Tayyip Erdogan prosecutes his latest military intrusion southward into Syria, all the old mythologies about the Turkish president and…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Mike Pompeo’s Latest Delusion
The U.S. secretary of state’s “West is Winning” speech in Munich last weekend was delusional. Even by his highly delusional standards, Mike Pompeo came forth with a doozy at the Munich Security Conference last weekend. “The West is winning,” saith the…
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