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PATRICK LAWRENCE: No Insight After Afghanistan

PATRICK LAWRENCE: No Insight After Afghanistan

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

Remaking the world — all of it — in the U.S. image has been a foundation stone of American foreign policy since the Wilson administration — a century ago. Tragedy, a scholarly friend reminds me, does not mean merely a…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Some Cherry Garcia, Please

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Some Cherry Garcia, Please

July 26, 2021 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Scrum

The apartheid state’s swoon into freak-out mode since Ben & Jerry’s took its stand tells us all we need to know about BDS’s accumulating power. Cherry Garcia, please, two scoops. No make that Chocolate Fudge Brownie. No, I want Coconut…

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