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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Blinded to Syria

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Blinded to Syria

December 15, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

I do not know anyone who was not shocked by the lightning speed with which Damascus fell to expensively armed jihadist militias last weekend. I know very few people who do not understand that another domino has just fallen in the…

Patrick Lawrence: ‘Who Do You Want to Win?’

Patrick Lawrence: ‘Who Do You Want to Win?’

October 3, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

A friend in England, a dweller in bucolic Somerset along with the Black Angus herds and the sheep, forwards a piece by a Times of London columnist that merits careful consideration. Matthew Syed, who has distinguished himself as a ping–pong…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Lost & Fearful in The Middle East

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Lost & Fearful in The Middle East

February 7, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The Biden regime wanders in a funhouse of its own making. Of all the amateurish moments to arise as the Biden regime conducts its foreign policy, the White House’s official statement as B1–B bombers let loose over Iraq and Syria last Friday…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Empire’s Last Stand

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Empire’s Last Stand

September 20, 2021 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The origins of the first Cold War have been hopelessly blurred in the histories. We can watch this time. It is occurring before our eyes.   In the early months of 1947, President Harry Truman and Dean Acheson, his secretary…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Aimless Empire

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Aimless Empire

June 1, 2021 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Under Biden, the world’s most powerful, most heavily armed, most determinedly righteous nation shows little sign of having any foreign policy at all.  Bitter and frightening realities face us four months into Joe Biden’s presidency. On the domestic side it…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: 1948 — No Longer Shrouded in the Mists

PATRICK LAWRENCE: 1948 — No Longer Shrouded in the Mists

May 18, 2021 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

What we see now is a purposeful program of terror and it is merely the latest, in form and intent, of what Palestinians have endured since the Nakba. The shattering events of the past few weeks in Israel, the West…

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: 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…

THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 8—Busting the Myth WikiLeaks Published Nothing on Israel & Syria

THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 8—Busting the Myth WikiLeaks Published Nothing on Israel & Syria

July 9, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

One myth about WikiLeaks is that it favors U.S. enemies and declines to publish documents against them, while another legend is that WikiLeaks, for obscure reasons, is soft on Israel, reports Patrick Lawrence. As WikiLeaks continued its document releases, and as major news organizations continued…

THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 7— Crimes Revealed at Guantánamo Bay

THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 7— Crimes Revealed at Guantánamo Bay

June 24, 2020 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Consortium News

“Gitmo Files” lifted the Pentagon’s lid on the prison, describing a corrupt system of military detention resting on torture, coerced testimony and “intelligence” manipulated to justify abuses at the base, writes Patrick Lawrence. Today we continue our series The Revelations of…

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