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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Embracing the Equality of Nations

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Embracing the Equality of Nations

July 6, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The decline of the West should come as no surprise, yet the U.S. still wages a ferocious fight against the prospect of equality among nations. The signs of America’s decline are ubiquitous now such that the phenomenon is no longer worthy…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Failed American Experiment

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Failed American Experiment

June 8, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Here comes the front edge of a new era, one in which America finally falls off its horse, its global standing properly diminished. “The American experiment” is a familiar phrase among us. When we reference it, we do so fully…

A Circle in the Darkness: Post-War Europe

A Circle in the Darkness: Post-War Europe

May 17, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Diana Johnstone’s newly-published memoir offers an incisive, gritty, politically alert, and expansive account of post-war Europe, reports Patrick Lawrence in this interview with the author.  Diana Johnstone first sojourned in Paris during the early postwar years, as France and the…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Post-Pandemic Future

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Post-Pandemic Future

April 13, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Will human civilization simply resume course or will we recognize the need for numerous far-reaching reforms? Full restoration or fundamental change: As the Covid–19 infection and fatality curves at last begin to flatten, the entire world now asks which of…

French doctor apologizes for Africa coronavirus test remarks after severe backlash

French doctor apologizes for Africa coronavirus test remarks after severe backlash

April 6, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Appearances

A French doctor who suggested that a possible treatment for the new coronavirus should be tested in Africa has apologized in the wake of widespread backlash on social media triggered by his comments. Jean-Paul Mira, the head of the intensive…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Defiles ‘Common Humanity’ During Pandemic

PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Defiles ‘Common Humanity’ During Pandemic

March 30, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Washington’s priorities are maintaining divisions, suspicions, animosities and enmities as if there were no global humanitarian crisis. Cuba sends 50–odd doctors and nurses to Italy, among the nations the COVID–19 virus has hit hardest. It was Cuba alone that assisted…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The US National Emergency

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The US National Emergency

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

COVID-19 calls on us to consider our plundered commons and unite around four truths made conspicuous by the pandemic. Now that the Trump administration has declared the COVID–19 virus a national emergency, it is plain that this once-a-century catastrophe has some things…

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