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“‘This war is the result of a coup.’”
The long, steady Zionist takeover in Washington is now complete. There is no longer any flinching from this. We were as stunned as many others to read the closely reported account of how, minute-by-minute, Bibi Netanyahu led the Trump regime…
“The ‘civil death’ of Hüseyin Doğru.”
A 21st century narrative of dread. 7 April—It will be a year ago next month that Hüseyin Doğru, a German journalist residing in Berlin, has lived under European Union sanctions. He is the first German citizen to find his name…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A German Journalist’s ‘Civil Death’
Hüseyin Dogru is the first E.U. citizen to be sanctioned by the union and the first journalist to land on the list because of his work. What is Dogru’s crime? Don’t ask: He has not committed one. The following note…
“The defense of Palestinian culture.”
In conversation with the director of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit. “They want to erase our memories.”—Amer Shomali 31 March—I will always remember my first sight of the Palestinian Museum. Its austere geometry and dazzling white limestone is arresting in every…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Internationalism Then & Now
The U.N. Security Council’s condemnation of Iran’s retaliatory strikes, along with the isolation of Cuba, show what U.S. assertion of raw power is doing to what remains of internationalist principles. Consider these following passages in a text that is now entered officially…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Pedro Sánchez’s ‘No a la Guerra’
Spain’s leader, with his government and his people, is signaling that the time has come to challenge the trans–Atlantic status quo and ultimately the world order altogether. I saw a video the other day that reminded me: Images often lie, which…
“The ‘empire of pretend’ goes to war (again).”
A podcast exchange with Patrik Baab. 16 MARCH—“The information age is actually a media age,” the late John Pilger once observed. “We have war by media, censorship by media, demonology by media, retribution by media, diversion by media—a Surreal assembly…
“Iran as ‘the evil one.’”
The return of the ‘end time.’ 11 MARCH—It is remarkable—and there are stronger words for this—how Americans swoon into states of religious fervor in times of crisis, or when their character or national identity, or their conduct toward others, is…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Another War We’re Not Supposed to See
You have to figure, if those waging war — and covering it — dedicate themselves this assiduously to keeping things hidden, there are surely things to hide. I know for a fact that The New York Times has a multitude of correspondents on…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Diplomacy’s Last Breath
Trump, in his regime’s serial dishonesty, has reshaped the conventions of American diplomacy in the Israeli fashion. He has turned the U.S. into the same sort of pariah — never to be trusted. How long did it take for the…