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Patrick Lawrence: Old Man Shouting, The American Empire is Doing Great! But It Isn’t
Democratic elites and the reporters who clerk for them were effusively approving of Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech last Thursday evening—not so much for what he said, which came nothing new, as for the demeanor of our enfeebled president. Never…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Russians in Ukraine
Recent disclosures provide an incomplete inventory of the West’s covert activities in Ukraine. There is more than we have been told, surely. You may have read or heard about the freakout that ensued after Emmanuel Macron convened a summit of…
“‘Palestinian Voices’ makes its goal.”
We’re in this project together now. To our readers, I am pleased to announce that we’ve met our fundraising goal for “Palestinian Voices.” In just six days, The Floutist’s readers and supporters stepped forward in a generous show of support for…
“Starvation as a weapon of war.”
Palestinian voices have never been more urgent. “This is the fastest decline in a population’s nutrition status ever recorded. That means children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen.”—Melanie Ward, Medical Aid for Palestinians. 1…
Patrick Lawrence: The CIA in Ukraine — The NY Times Gets a Guided Tour
The New York Times recently ran a story called “The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin.” Patrick Lawrence writes that these “secrets” only contained what the CIA “wanted and did not want disclosed,” and were “effectively…
“Our common humanity.”
‘Palestinian Voices,’ an update. Many of us like to ask ourselves, “What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?” The answer…
“The Floutist goes to Palestine.”
A letter to readers. To our readers, With this letter The Floutist launches a new project. We’re calling it “Palestinian Voices” because our intent is to travel to Israel and the West Bank, listen to as many Palestinians as we can, and…
“Gaza dreams.”
The first prayer. “One must remember to breathe,” a reader who goes by Unabiker wrote to us today. He elaborated, “All nuance, complexity, and all of perception has been compressed to an epistemological black hole. This is the world as…
Patrick Lawrence: Corporate Media Is an Arm of Power; We Must Build an Alternative
In his new book, ¨Journalists and Their Shadows,¨ Patrick Lawrence describes his experience over decades as an editor and foreign correspondent of watching the media rise and fall in its ability to serve as a force to hold power accountable….
IMPEACHMENT: A Rapid Succession of Events
Patrick Lawrence on the indictment of key witness Alexander Smirnov; the under-reported testimony of Jason Galanis from a federal prison; and Hunter Biden’s testimony under oath. This is the fourth in Consortium News’ series on the congressional investigation into President Biden’s allegedly corrupt…