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“Europe’s latest intelligence fakes.”
Having lived through most of the Cold War years, we thought there was no outdoing the Americans in the way of Russophobic paranoia. Who would ever have imagined the Europeans, Germany and some of the former Soviet satellites in the…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Desperation Row
Reflecting Volodymyr Zelensky’s confidence that the Trumpster would oblige him, he, Zelensky, actually visited Raytheon, the Tomahawk’s maker, before his session at the White House. What a big game Volodymyr Zelensky talked before his latest little while in the Oval…
Patrick Lawrence: Against Chutzpah
I have been reading a lot these past days about how the Israelis treated those they detained when they illegally boarded the vessels that comprised the now-famous aid flotilla that never made it to Gaza’s shores. The Irish — naturally,…
“Keep the Champagne corked.”
As I read of the ceasefire Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza formally accepted in the early hours of Thursday, my mind went immediately to that memorable thought Hannah Arendt shared with Roger Errera, a French free-speech advocate, shortly…
“Drawing as resistance.”
It took Israel less than twenty-four hours to violate the current ceasefire in Gaza. As reported in The Cradle yesterday, 14 October, “the Jewish state” killed nine Palestinians by targeting civilians with a quadcopter and shelling neighborhoods. Anyone unknowingly crossing the “yellow line”…
Patrick Lawrence: Power and Justice
Those were an eventful few days as the General Assembly convened at the United Nations Secretariat in New York Sept. 22. France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco and Andorra formally recognized the state of Palestine on the first day of the…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The War Dept’s War on Media
The Pentagon’s new restrictions will bar correspondents covering the American military from covering the American military, as the Trump regime attempts to exert full-spectrum control over media. It should be evident by now to anyone paying even casual attention that exerting…
“Recognition amid genocide.”
Palestinians speak. 29 SEPTEMBER—The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly turned out to be as momentous as many had anticipated. On Sunday 21 September Australia, Canada, Portugal, and the United Kingdom recognized Palestinian statehood. The following day, six…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Age of Unreason
Remarks delivered in late August at the annual congress of Mut zur Ethik, which translates (a little awkwardly) as “the courage of one’s ethics.” This group gathers in Zürich’s environs each summer to hear a variety of speakers consider a selected…
“The Kirk narrative doesn’t hold.”
To whom goes the good? So many questions since a sniper with demonstrated skill assassinated Charlie Kirk in broad daylight on Sept. 10—this as he addressed a crowd of several thousand no less. We have only our questions as of…
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