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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…

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…

Famine Could Kill 20 Million in Africa and Yemen—Why the Deafening Silence?

Famine Could Kill 20 Million in Africa and Yemen—Why the Deafening Silence?

March 24, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

As with the threat to kick 24 million off health care here, unchecked power is bringing humanity to a grave crisis. Two striking stories, back to back, come our way as spring arrives. I cannot get either out of my…

Cold War By Other Means

Cold War By Other Means

May 28, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, CounterPunch

Ukraine: the Crisis in Context It is never easy to see the present as history: Being inside events, being the stuff of which events are made, makes distance and the perspective that comes of it difficult. It is not a…

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