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WATCH: The World This Week — Terms of US Surrender

WATCH: The World This Week — Terms of US Surrender

June 20, 2026 · by Joe Lauria · in Appearances, Articles, Consortium News

After losing the war, a major U.S.-Israel row is coming to a head with the fate of Mideast peace and the global economy on the line. With Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Saturday 8 pm EDT. Guests: Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Host: Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy…

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….

PATRICK LAWRENCE: War Against Individual Conscience

PATRICK LAWRENCE: War Against Individual Conscience

April 27, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The head spins — while the Zionist regime goes on a persecutorial rampage against Christians, its imperial sponsor enables it at every turn in the name of Christian righteousness. I cannot get past the recently published photograph of that Israeli soldier taking a…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Iran & Ukraine — Two Theaters in the Non–West’s Single War for Parity

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Iran & Ukraine — Two Theaters in the Non–West’s Single War for Parity

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

In Iran and Ukraine, what is at stake — what is fought for and against — is a rebalancing of power that will prove of world-historical magnitude when it is at last accomplished. First came news that, on April 8, Israeli…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Diplomacy’s Last Breath

PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Diplomacy’s Last Breath

April 10, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles

Trump, in his regime’s serial dishonesty, has reshaped the conventions of American diplomacy in the Israeli fashion. He has turned the U.S. into the same sort of pariah — never to be trusted. How long did it take for the…

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