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Don’t Hold Your Breath on US Troop Withdrawal from Syria

Don’t Hold Your Breath on US Troop Withdrawal from Syria

December 19, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

It would be nice to think the president has final say on foreign policy, given the U.S. Constitution. But the misleading troop withdrawal announcement, followed by Trump’s boastful tweet, suggests the exact opposite, says Patrick Lawrence. The announcement on Wednesday…

Mexico’s Solution to the Border Crisis

Mexico’s Solution to the Border Crisis

December 11, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

López Obrador’s $20 billion development plan gives Washington a chance to help rectify the historic damage it’s done to the living conditions of people in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, writes Patrick Lawrence. A Latin American Marshall Plan, at a…

Pence’s Attacks on China Won’t Help Trump at G-20

Pence’s Attacks on China Won’t Help Trump at G-20

November 28, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Beijing wants to avoid an all-out trade war with Washington. That is what will count at the G-20 summit later this week, writes Patrick Lawrence, not the U.S. vice president’s hostility in Asia earlier this month. Trying to Isolate China…

America’s Absence in Istanbul: A Sign of Decline, Not Surrender

America’s Absence in Istanbul: A Sign of Decline, Not Surrender

November 13, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Team Trump missed the summit on Syria. In that, Patrick Lawrence sees another sign of Washington’s failure to accept its loss of diplomatic primacy. Lost in the Memory Palace: US Leads, But No One Follows You would hardly know it from…

New Iran Sanctions Risk Long-term US Isolation

New Iran Sanctions Risk Long-term US Isolation

November 1, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The U.S. is going for the jugular with new Iran sanctions intended to punish those who trade with Teheran. But the U.S. may have a fight on its hands in a possible post- WWII turning-point, writes Patrick Lawrence. Europe, Asia…

The Art of No Mideast Deal

The Art of No Mideast Deal

October 13, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Donald Trump once advertised an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan as his greatest achievement-in-the-making, but like many of the president’s negotiations, the Kushner-Greenblatt strategy is a one-sided bargain, writes Patrick Lawrence. Whatever happened to President Trump’s “Deal of the Century”—his promise to…

The Battle for Our Minds

The Battle for Our Minds

September 25, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

There are battlefields in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere, but given the state of corporate media, perhaps the most consequential battle now being fought is for our minds, says Patrick Lawrence. After reading The New York Times piece “The Plot to Subvert an…

Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran

Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran

September 13, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

America’s three principal adversaries signify the shape of the world to come: a post-Western world of coexistence. But neoliberal and neocon ideology is unable to to accept global pluralism and multipolarity, argues Patrick Lawrence. The Trump administration has brought U.S….

The Trump Administration’s Spoiler Foreign Policy

The Trump Administration’s Spoiler Foreign Policy

August 30, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

U.S. strategy abroad is assuming a curious shape. Whether the president or his minders are running affairs, Patrick Lawrence sees the U.S. being reduced to playing a spoiler role in the Middle East and Northeast Asia. It is not possible…

‘Too Big to Fail’: Russia-gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack

‘Too Big to Fail’: Russia-gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack

August 13, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

One year later, the VIPS memo contending that the DNC emails were leaked and not hacked has yet to be successfully challenged. Meanwhile, the country sinks deeper into the morass of the new McCarthyism, comments Patrick Lawrence. A year has…

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