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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…

WATCH: The World This Week w/Ray McGovern

WATCH: The World This Week w/Ray McGovern

March 7, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

IRAN – A week that changed the world, perhaps forever.  Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence discuss it on The World This Week. Watch the replay.  Guests: Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Host: Joe Lauria.  Producer: Cathy Vogan.

WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 3

WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 3

January 30, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Appearances, Articles, Consortium News

The World This Week looks at Trump’s new threats against Iran, his tendency to chicken out, and a tribute to the great Michael Parenti, with Joe Lauria and Patrick Lawrence. Producer: Cathy Vogan

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s War on the Future Has a Past

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s War on the Future Has a Past

January 28, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The Trump-McMahon education edict: You will cooperate as we destroy the tradition of intellectual exploration that has endured for a thousand years — or we will starve you. Last autumn, well into the Trump regime’s full-frontal attacks on American universities…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: All Unquiet on the Ukrainian Front

PATRICK LAWRENCE: All Unquiet on the Ukrainian Front

January 21, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The Europeans have run out of postures and gestures in the way of performative statecraft, and the Russians see no point in indulging them any further. Sometimes wars have occasions that can be read — immediately, soon or in time…

Patrick Lawrence: Notes of a Non-Voter

Patrick Lawrence: Notes of a Non-Voter

November 9, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Oh my, the elites of the Democratic Party, their clerks in media and “the donor class” began gasping as election night wore on and it came clear that they had once again mistaken what we call liberal America for America….

American policy totally failed in Syria — let’s be thankful

American policy totally failed in Syria — let’s be thankful

November 26, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Despite media obfuscation, last week’s meeting between Putin and Assad suggests a new order in the Middle East I kept hearing National Public Radio programs this week to the effect that liberals and “progressives,” not to mention those in the…

Putin has bested them all: How has the Russian leader gotten the better of Clinton, Bush and Obama?

Putin has bested them all: How has the Russian leader gotten the better of Clinton, Bush and Obama?

November 24, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Watching Trump beat his chest about how he’d force Putin to his will is a reminder that Putin’s had his way with us Aug. 9, 1999, was an eventful day for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. In the morning President Boris Yeltsin…

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