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Patrick Lawrence: Our World of Wars, Our War of Worlds

Patrick Lawrence: Our World of Wars, Our War of Worlds

December 31, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

It is some years now since a lot of people began imagining the specter of World War III in the near or middle distance. This kind of thinking has been especially common since the U.S., with determination and purpose, provoked…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Biden Family of Liars

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Biden Family of Liars

December 5, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Given Joe Biden’s apparently intimate involvement in Hunter’s dealings, it follows that his intent in pardoning his son is effectively to secure a pardon for himself.   This is the sixth in Consortium News’s series on the extensive criminal allegations leveled at…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: De-Westernizing Ourselves

PATRICK LAWRENCE: De-Westernizing Ourselves

October 14, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Embarking on a process of personal, individual “de–Westernization” is absolutely essential if we propose to defend the humanity of humanity.    This is an edited version of the second of two lectures the author gave recently on “Defending the Humanity of…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hunter Biden’s Charge of Lying Under Oath

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hunter Biden’s Charge of Lying Under Oath

June 19, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The June 5 criminal referrals are indication enough that the Oversight and Judiciary committees are far from done, spent, or at a dead end. This is the fifth in Consortium News’ series on the congressional investigation into President Joe Biden’s allegedly…

Patrick Lawrence: The Price of Biden’s New China Tariffs

Patrick Lawrence: The Price of Biden’s New China Tariffs

May 23, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Ilove the photograph The New York Times ran atop Jim Tankersley’s May 18 story analyzing the inadvisable raft of tariffs on Chinese imports President Biden authorized four days earlier. There is the old coot signing the paperwork at a desk in the…

IMPEACHMENT: A Rapid Succession of Events

IMPEACHMENT: A Rapid Succession of Events

March 8, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Patrick Lawrence on the indictment of key witness Alexander Smirnov; the under-reported testimony of Jason Galanis from a federal prison; and Hunter Biden’s testimony under oath.  This is the fourth in Consortium News’ series on the congressional investigation into President Biden’s allegedly corrupt…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Russia’s Turn From the West

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Russia’s Turn From the West

January 22, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Sergei Lavrov’s recent comments are a case of the subtext being vastly larger than the text.   Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s steady, able, intellectually quick foreign minister, last week held one of those wide-ranging press conferences he and his boss favor. Lavrov’s…

IMPEACHMENT: Biden Under Formal Investigation

IMPEACHMENT: Biden Under Formal Investigation

December 17, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Patrick Lawrence writes that Joe Biden, a.k.a. “the Big Guy,” will be formally investigated on accumulating evidence he participated and benefited from his son Hunter’s years of manifestly criminal conniving.  It is now two and a half months since the…

IMPEACHMENT: Innuendo and Evidence

IMPEACHMENT: Innuendo and Evidence

September 29, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Consortium News‘ Patrick Lawrence will be daily covering the U.S. House inquiry into the impeachment of President Joe Biden. This is his first report. Ten months after Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives and eight months after the…

Patrick Lawrence: The Real Threat From China: They’re Better at Capitalism Than We Are

Patrick Lawrence: The Real Threat From China: They’re Better at Capitalism Than We Are

August 30, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

The Biden regime’s robotic procession to Beijing proceeds apace. Following Antony Blinken’s fruitless visit in mid–June, we have paid Janet Yellen’s airfare for another fruitless visit, and following Yellen it was the same for John Kerry. This week it is…

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