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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Canada & Creeping US Isolation

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Canada & Creeping US Isolation

August 26, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The thing I loved first and most about those evidently vicious trade talks the Canadians recently attempted with the Americans is how they blew up in the Trump regime’s faces at five minutes to 12 (almost literally) last Friday night. …

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Biden Regime Speaks

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Biden Regime Speaks

July 23, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The New Yorker’s account of Biden administration officials’ dealings with Israel after Oct. 7, 2023, leaves one key “takeaway” — they lacked the guts or integrity to stop the Zionist terror machine. It didn’t have to come to this, but you…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Return of Co-Existence

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Return of Co-Existence

July 10, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

In Ankara this week, NATO committed to building its very own military industrial complex, pursuing the same “total security” doctrine that some Israelis, in their case, now see backfiring.  Ezra Klein, one of the resident Zionists in The New York Times’ opinion section (or is everyone appearing…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: In Praise of Defeat

PATRICK LAWRENCE: In Praise of Defeat

June 23, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

After a day’s talks with Iran, J.D. Vance’s claims to progress seem flimsy even by the slack standards the U.S. sets for itself these days in its diplomatic endeavors.  Well, J.D. Vance had his first talks with the Iranians —…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trans–Pacific Paskudniks

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trans–Pacific Paskudniks

June 16, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Is Beijing preparing for war? Of course: It has no choice. But the war it is bracing to wage is one the United States seems intent on provoking. The Chinese have no other such plans. I have never quite got over…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Systematic Murder of International Law

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Systematic Murder of International Law

June 2, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The Zionist regime is accelerating its long war against international law and justice and the institutions upholding them. What remains of a common human culture will only be kept alive by those willing to fight for it. Do we witness…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Cokehead of Kiev, Exposed

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Cokehead of Kiev, Exposed

May 26, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Let all the delusions and illusions of the past five years — or 12, if you begin your count with the U.S.–sponsored coup in Kiev back in 2014 — finally fade like the flags. You see very few blue-above-yellow banners…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: History Turned in Beijing

PATRICK LAWRENCE: History Turned in Beijing

May 18, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

To say not much happened during Trump’s two days in the Chinese capital, as a lot of people seem to think, is to miss the forest for the trees. How polished are the Chinese, how delicate in their gestures, after…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Epic Desperation

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Epic Desperation

May 12, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Before the world’s eyes, Iranians have turned Operation Epic Fury into Operation Epic Desperation.  Iranians are Hô Chi Minh’s grasshoppers taking on a colonial elephant. No one can say with certainty, at this writing, how Iran’s defense against U.S.–Israeli aggression will…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Trap, Trump’s Sanity

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Trap, Trump’s Sanity

May 2, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The U.S. president has lost the war he started with Iran — or at the very least he has no chance of winning it — but accepting defeat and repairing the damage of the error is simply beyond his reach….

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