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Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen: EUROPE GOING ITS OWN WAY: GOOD FOR AMERICA TOO?

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen: EUROPE GOING ITS OWN WAY: GOOD FOR AMERICA TOO?

October 15, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Appearances

The European nations don’t need enemies like the US does. Since geography is destiny, they see a bizarre American President and have their own economic interests beyond dependence on weapons systems. On this show international journalist Patrick Lawrence describes what…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Europe Going Its Own Way

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Europe Going Its Own Way

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

Events of the past week show the Continent restoring some of its pre-1945 independence from U.S. hegemony. Those who come after us will look back and conclude we lived in a time of great moment. This is true in all sorts of…

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…

China’s European Moment Has Arrived

China’s European Moment Has Arrived

April 1, 2019 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The simplicities of the postwar order have just begun to pass into history, writes Patrick Lawrence. It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Xi Jinping’s visits to Rome, Paris and Monaco last week. In bringing his much-remarked Belt and Road…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Pompeo, Pence & the Alienation of Europe

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Pompeo, Pence & the Alienation of Europe

February 19, 2019 · by Clifford Tremblay · in Articles, Consortium News

If the objective was to further isolate the U.S., the two officials could not have done a better job last week, writes Patrick Lawrence. What a job Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did in Europe…

New Iran Sanctions Risk Long-term US Isolation

New Iran Sanctions Risk Long-term US Isolation

November 1, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The U.S. is going for the jugular with new Iran sanctions intended to punish those who trade with Teheran. But the U.S. may have a fight on its hands in a possible post- WWII turning-point, writes Patrick Lawrence. Europe, Asia…

Trump is about to kill the Iran deal — and what lies ahead could be catastrophe

Trump is about to kill the Iran deal — and what lies ahead could be catastrophe

May 6, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Next act of decaying American empire: Abandoning a deal that promised a new beginning in the Middle East Here comes the next act in the Theater of Desperation that Washington has made of American foreign policy. Unless President Trump changes…

Behind this week’s Russia headlines: A mystery, a leap to conclusions and a fateful turn

Behind this week’s Russia headlines: A mystery, a leap to conclusions and a fateful turn

March 18, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Did the Russians try to murder a former spy? Maybe. But that has little to do with the larger Russophobe narrative What a week for the Russophobes. The British government pins an unsolved murder attempt on Moscow, and the French,…

Team Trump seems bent on undoing the Iran deal: So what happens next?

Team Trump seems bent on undoing the Iran deal: So what happens next?

March 4, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Major global disorder lies ahead if the McMaster clique dismantles the Iran deal. In some ways that might be good We had better brace ourselves for a further descent into global disorder: The next round in the Trump administration’s determined…

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