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Recent Pieces
- “Among the Palestinians.” October 20, 2026
- PATRICK LAWRENCE: Honoring Frances Stonor Saunders October 16, 2026
- PATRICK LAWRENCE: Swiss Neutrality & its Enemies October 15, 2026
- PATRICK LAWRENCE: In Praise of French Students October 9, 2026
- “Trump’s war with the ‘liberal’ press.” October 1, 2026
Recent Comments
- The Palestinians won in The Hague – Current Concerns on A Conversation With Richard Falk
- The US Seeing Itself & Others as They Are – Consortium News – The Other News on American exceptionalism and American innocence: The misleading history and messages of the 9/11 Memorial Museum
- Seeing Ourselves & Others as We Are – Consortium News – The Other News on American exceptionalism and American innocence: The misleading history and messages of the 9/11 Memorial Museum
- Susan Steffner on “Iran as ‘the evil one.’”
- Mao Cheng Ji on “Europe’s latest intelligence fakes.”
PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office. “Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.” So did Chinese peasants celebrate their distance from the…