ARTICLES
“For Trump, it’s Israel über alles now.”
He’s about to sacrifice the global economy to the Zionists’ pathological determination to destroy Iran. Renewed warfare may be imminent. 18 MAY—As I have argued elsewhere, President Trump faced himself with an unforgiving choice when he let Bibi Netanyahu drag him into…
“Dignity in a West Bank refugee camp.”
A brief appeal to our subscribers and readers. 16 MAY—Later this month, West Bank Palestinian families will celebrate Eid al–Adah, one of two major Islamic holidays, in the New Askar Refugee Camp in Nablus. I’m raising funds to provide food…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Epic Desperation
Before the world’s eyes, Iranians have turned Operation Epic Fury into Operation Epic Desperation. Iranians are Hô Chi Minh’s grasshoppers taking on a colonial elephant. No one can say with certainty, at this writing, how Iran’s defense against U.S.–Israeli aggression will…
“When democracy fails: Reports from the West Bank.”
The admittance of Israel to the United Nations as a full member state in May 1949, and all that preceded and followed this event, reflects the catastrophic failure of Western democracy. 7 MAY—I’m dissatisfied, it’s time to state bluntly, with…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Trap, Trump’s Sanity
The U.S. president has lost the war he started with Iran — or at the very least he has no chance of winning it — but accepting defeat and repairing the damage of the error is simply beyond his reach….
“The myths of ‘Russian aggression.’”
A RAND study explodes the West’s ‘Irrussianality.’ 29 APRIL—’Arte, ‘the’ Franco–German television channel, broadcast a documentary earlier this month titled L’Europe dans la main de Poutine? “Europe in Putin’s grip?” opens with a scene in the Kremlin on 18 March 2014, when…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: War Against Individual Conscience
The head spins — while the Zionist regime goes on a persecutorial rampage against Christians, its imperial sponsor enables it at every turn in the name of Christian righteousness. I cannot get past the recently published photograph of that Israeli soldier taking a…
“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,…
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…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: History Turned in Beijing
To say not much happened during Trump’s two days in the Chinese capital, as a lot of people seem to think, is to miss the forest for the trees. How polished are the Chinese, how delicate in their gestures, after…