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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Foreign Policy Explained

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Foreign Policy Explained

December 29, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Trump arrived in Washington as a New York property man unfamiliar with the permanent DC establishment, but determined to make deals where others dare not go. Chaos was the result.‘ “Some friendly health advice to Iran,” President Donald Trump tweeted last Wednesday….

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Empire with a Human Face

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Empire with a Human Face

December 14, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The Biden people are unlikely to speak of a new cold war with China, but they appear likely to wage one all dressed up as a sophisticated trans–Pacific strategy. Those boneheaded Trump people explained their hostile, xenophobic, fated-to-fail policy toward…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Assassins & Iran

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Assassins & Iran

December 1, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Appearances, Consortium News

Any thought of Biden and his people riding into town on white horses to save the nuclear deal is strictly naïve. I was on the telephone with a friend in Tehran Sunday and found myself telling him about a Christmas card…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hillary Clinton at the UN?

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hillary Clinton at the UN?

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

Whether or not Biden appoints her, things are getting very brazen and very bitter, very fast. We are now told that President-elect Joe Biden may name none other than Hillary Clinton to be his ambassador to the United Nations. This…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Talk of Another Pink Tide

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Talk of Another Pink Tide

November 2, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Expect an orgy of U.S. subterfuge. If there’s one thing Washington cannot abide more than a working social democracy, it’s a working social democracy in Latin America. The election of Luis Arce in Bolivia last month has been much celebrated in circles…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Damage Russiagate Has Done

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Damage Russiagate Has Done

October 19, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Authoritarian liberals have unleashed a censorious syndrome peculiar to our national character, dating to 17th century Quaker hangings in Boston.  An inhabitant of Twitterland named “Willow Inski” took to the keyboard on Oct. 11, asking why anyone still accepts official…

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: A United State of Delusion

PATRICK LAWRENCE: A United State of Delusion

August 4, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Americans are caught in a kind of national psychosis, wherein little of what is said about foreign conduct — from Germany to the South China Sea — can be taken at face value.  Let’s face it: The Trump regime has from the…

Bravate di Guerra Fredda nel Pacifico

Bravate di Guerra Fredda nel Pacifico

July 20, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

This Italian translation appeared on Sakeritalia. Prima è arrivata al Congresso la richiesta formale [in inglese] da parte del Dipartimento della Difesa per un  assegno di 20 miliardi di dollari per aumentare la propria presenza in tutto il Pacifico. Un mese dopo la…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Cold War Escapades in the Pacific

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Cold War Escapades in the Pacific

July 20, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

There is a lot to read into this moment, but one thing’s clear. The U.S. doesn’t know what time it is.   First came the Defense Department’s formal request to Congress for a $20 billion check to upgrade its presence across the Pacific. That…

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