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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Blundering Biden Team

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Blundering Biden Team

March 23, 2021 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

What occurred between Washington and Moscow last week, and at a hotel in Anchorage, bears a significance that we must not miss. “Biden is a national embarrassment on foreign policy,” a colleague wrote in a note over the weekend. This…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Missing Link with Europe

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Missing Link with Europe

February 22, 2021 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

While the Continent welcomed the Cold War’s end, America — which would be utterly lost without an enemy — never has. President Joe Biden at last got his chance to “sit at the head of the table” when he addressed (virtually, of…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Diplomacy of No Diplomacy

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Diplomacy of No Diplomacy

February 8, 2021 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

We now watch as Biden and his foreign policy people effectively allow Israel to dictate the conditions under which the president can fulfill his campaign promise on Iran.  A return to diplomacy: Let us hold this thought up to the light….

Biden is Already Breaking Promises

Biden is Already Breaking Promises

January 25, 2021 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Tony Blinken will be secretary of state with the élan and faux sophistication the nakedly bankrupt foreign policy requires if the U.S. pantomime is to be sustained another four years. It was inevitable that President Joe Biden would betray numerous…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Meddling in Hong Kong

PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Meddling in Hong Kong

January 11, 2021 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

An honorable democracy movement that held its head high for many decades now falls to Beijing’s heavy hand after U.S. meddling. Midway in a week of shocking news, I awakened last Wednesday to a piece in Asia Sentinel that made my heart…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Foreign Policy Explained

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Foreign Policy Explained

December 29, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Trump arrived in Washington as a New York property man unfamiliar with the permanent DC establishment, but determined to make deals where others dare not go. Chaos was the result. “Some friendly health advice to Iran,” President Donald Trump tweeted last Wednesday….

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Empire with a Human Face

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Empire with a Human Face

December 14, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The Biden people are unlikely to speak of a new cold war with China, but they appear likely to wage one all dressed up as a sophisticated trans–Pacific strategy. Those boneheaded Trump people explained their hostile, xenophobic, fated-to-fail policy toward…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Assassins & Iran

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Assassins & Iran

December 1, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Appearances, Consortium News

Any thought of Biden and his people riding into town on white horses to save the nuclear deal is strictly naïve. I was on the telephone with a friend in Tehran Sunday and found myself telling him about a Christmas card…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hillary Clinton at the UN?

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hillary Clinton at the UN?

November 16, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Whether or not Biden appoints her, things are getting very brazen and very bitter, very fast. We are now told that President-elect Joe Biden may name none other than Hillary Clinton to be his ambassador to the United Nations. This…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Talk of Another Pink Tide

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Talk of Another Pink Tide

November 2, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Expect an orgy of U.S. subterfuge. If there’s one thing Washington cannot abide more than a working social democracy, it’s a working social democracy in Latin America. The election of Luis Arce in Bolivia last month has been much celebrated in circles…

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