PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump & the Rrrrussians
Given the vitriol gushing out of corporate media over the purchase of about two weeks’ worth of Russian diesel fuel, we just might be watching the beginning of the endgame in Ukraine. Given the gush of vitriol and condemnation since…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Honoring Frances Stonor Saunders
In her revelatory work The Cultural Cold War, the late British author was the first to shine so unblinking a light on the sprawl of the C.I.A.’s cultural interventions. Frances Stonor Saunders was fond of epigraphs (as am I). At…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Swiss Neutrality & its Enemies
We must contemplate a world without the Swiss as facilitators of peace processes if the neutrality initiative fails on Sept. 27. As reported here and there in Western media, although not very often or well or honestly, the Swiss will…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: In Praise of French Students
If the streets of France have something important to tell us now, it is that the centrist, or liberal-authoritarian, model is crumbling as surely as the lycées of Lyons and Nimes. The French have had a certain gift for street…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Games Trump & Liberal Media Play
We are looking at a dysfunction that transcends the contest for power between liberal authoritarians — politely called “centrists” these days — and their rightist counterparts. If the Trump regime is any good at anything, it is escalation. Wars, sanctions,…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The War Outside Our Doors
In fighting Zionist genocide in Gaza, Macklemore, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor have something to tell us all. There are things to do and victories to achieve so long as there is a willingness to accept sacrifice. Let’s do some…
Patrick Lawrence: The US Seeing Itself & Others as They Are
Imagine the consequences for the empire’s managers were Americans to understand others and have some grasp of how they look upon the world. The other night, I watched a documentary called Coup 53, a brilliant treatment of the Anglo–American operation that…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Canada & Creeping US Isolation
The thing I loved first and most about those evidently vicious trade talks the Canadians recently attempted with the Americans is how they blew up in the Trump regime’s faces at five minutes to 12 (almost literally) last Friday night. …
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Only One Way Out for Trump
The question ahead of the latest summit with Netanyahu on Tuesday is what the U.S. president will lose — either a war, on the one hand, or on the other, the global economy and the American electorate. I was talking to…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Same Old but Worse in Israel
If there is one nation in the world that needs more than any other to find a new direction it is “the Jewish state.” But if there is one more committed to its current path it is the Jewish state….