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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Authorized Atrocities

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Authorized Atrocities

March 20, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Israel’s lawlessness has a history that those in the West share with the apartheid state.  It is remarked often enough, including in this space, that Israel’s savagery in its determination to exterminate the Palestinians of Gaza — and we had…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Dialectic of the Draft

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Dialectic of the Draft

August 8, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Americans will understand themselves less fantastically if they consider the extent to which the end of the Selective Service System a half century ago gave them permission to put their public selves to sleep. It is 50 years ago now…

As reckless as George W. Bush: Hillary Clinton helped create disorder in Iraq, Libya, Syria — and, scarier, doesn’t seem to understand how

As reckless as George W. Bush: Hillary Clinton helped create disorder in Iraq, Libya, Syria — and, scarier, doesn’t seem to understand how

March 13, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

American primacy at all cost. That’s her dangerous guiding mission. Only Bush, Nixon loved imperial adventure more As of the voting in various primaries last week and this week, Hillary Rodham Clinton has the surest way to the White House…

The real story about Syria and Libya: Behind a new agreement with Moscow, and the insidious way the New York Times protects Hillary

The real story about Syria and Libya: Behind a new agreement with Moscow, and the insidious way the New York Times protects Hillary

March 1, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

A new accord with Moscow on Syria clears up little. And a new Times series on Clinton and Libya has a messy agenda Hardly does the Syria accord announced jointly in Washington and Moscow last week clarify the swamp of…

Do’s and Don’ts of a Post Qaddafi U.S. Policy

Do’s and Don’ts of a Post Qaddafi U.S. Policy

August 23, 2011 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

“American aid, not American troops,” President Obama declared from a Martha’s Vineyard vacation house on Monday as news of Tripoli’s fall toinsurgent forces flowed in. In five simple words, the President described a fundamental turn in U.S. policy abroad – a…

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