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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…

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…

Trump’s Blunders on NATO and Russia Make Our European Allies Cringe

Trump’s Blunders on NATO and Russia Make Our European Allies Cringe

January 20, 2017 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

If you thought Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions were politically calculated toss-offs, think again. The interview he gave The Times of London last week put the world on notice: The views Trump expressed as he campaigned last year—notably on NATO,…

Europe’s Deal with Greece Nearly Splits the Eurozone

Europe’s Deal with Greece Nearly Splits the Eurozone

July 13, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Leaders of the eurozone nations put Greeks and other Europeans on urgent notice at a hastily called summit in Brussels late Sunday evening: The group worked through the night and agreed to a new $100 billion bailout with serious reforms…

Germany’s New Policy Plan Puts the US on Catch Up

Germany’s New Policy Plan Puts the US on Catch Up

March 2, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

It takes a strong nation, as opposed to one that’s merely powerful to rethink the way it conducts its foreign relations. Germany now proves the point, and Americans should sit up straight and take a long look. This is nothing…

Saving Ukraine: Why the IMF’s Bailout May not Work

Saving Ukraine: Why the IMF’s Bailout May not Work

February 16, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Could last week’s ceasefire in Ukraine, announced in Minsk Thursday after 17 hours of negotiation, have been any more dramatic? The German and French leaders, who presided in the Belarus capital, leapt into 11th hour action when Washington disclosed it…

Europe Faces Anti-Austerity Mutiny as Crisis Looms

Europe Faces Anti-Austerity Mutiny as Crisis Looms

October 20, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The running theme at the meeting of European Union leaders in Milan last week was, “The toolbox is empty. Nobody knows what to do next to get Europe’s economies out of the ditch.” News reports from Milan correspondents told a…

How Obama Lost Friends in Europe and Influence Globally

How Obama Lost Friends in Europe and Influence Globally

July 14, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Bad comes to worse in the Obama administration’s ties with Europe. Obama’s trans-Atlantic crisis is less dramatic than his other foreign policy failures: Syria, Egypt, the Mideast, China. But the implications of this debacle could prove profoundly significant—politically and diplomatically,…

The Dark Cloud over Europe’s Nascent Recovery

The Dark Cloud over Europe’s Nascent Recovery

November 4, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Europe seems to be right on time—for once. The comforting consensus a year ago was that the crisis gripping the European Union since 2009 would begin to fade in the third quarter of this year. And here we are: •…

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