“The Kirk narrative doesn’t hold.”
To whom goes the good? So many questions since a sniper with demonstrated skill assassinated Charlie Kirk in broad daylight on Sept. 10—this as he addressed a crowd of several thousand no less. We have only our questions as of…
Patrick Lawrence: To Whom Goes the Good?
So many questions arise since a sniper with demonstrated skill assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk in broad daylight on Sept. 10 — this as he addressed a crowd of several thousand no less. We have only our questions as of…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Nation of Narcissists
Narcissism is the open-and-shut condition of the elites who fashion and execute American foreign policy. And they are utterly incapable of seeing their country as it is. All those malign authoritarians, more than 20 of them, who gathered in Tianjin…
“‘Staged actions’ in Ukraine.”
A festival of media concoctions. The decades-long Ukraine crisis, since this current phase began with the U.S.–cultivated coup in Kiev eleven years ago, has occasioned more misinformation, disinformation, false-flag operations and propaganda than any other in our memories. This is…
Patrick Lawrence: The State of the ‘State of Palestine’
United Nations General Assembly sessions, held each September since 51 nations convened in a Methodist church hall in London in 1946, come and go and mostly go without event. The General Assembly is set to begin its 80th session come Sept….
“Those Russian ‘kidnappers.’”
Anatomy of a propaganda op. “The information age is actually a media age,” the late John Pilger once remarked. “We have war by media, censorship by media, demonology by media, retribution by media, diversion by media—a Surreal assembly line of…
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…
‘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: 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…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump & the Russophobes
The extent to which Trump’s démarche toward Moscow succeeds will be the extent to which the U.S. can transcend a long, regrettable history and finally embrace the 21st century. There is no saying yet whether Donald Trump will succeed in…