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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: 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…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Iranian General’s Intent

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Iranian General’s Intent

January 6, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Given the gravity of last week’s drone assassination, the State and Defense Departments must prove their claims against Qassem Soleimani. AFAQ–TV, a satellite station broadcasting from Baghdad, ran a brief video clip last May of Ali Khamenei speaking to a small gathering….

PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Sudden-Seeming Power Shift in the Middle East

PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Sudden-Seeming Power Shift in the Middle East

October 28, 2019 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Despite the high-speed impression created by events in the past few weeks, the shifting trends of Russian and U.S. influence on the region have been underway for years.  Rarely do world events move at the velocity they now assume in the…

Why Russia Is Emerging as the World’s Indispensable Diplomatic Power

Why Russia Is Emerging as the World’s Indispensable Diplomatic Power

February 22, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

Moscow, working in concert with others, has set courses toward the diplomatic resolution of several key conflicts. There was a remarkable succession of events in the skies over Syria earlier this month. I see lessons in what happened that none…

Bibi’s downfall: Is the most dangerous man in the Middle East done for?

Bibi’s downfall: Is the most dangerous man in the Middle East done for?

February 18, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Benjamin Netanyahu has set Israel, and the entire Middle East, on a path toward doomsday. Will his fall matter? The political future of Benjamin Netanyahu is at last in doubt. With the Israeli police report recommending criminal charges against the…

A Conversation With Richard Falk

A Conversation With Richard Falk

January 19, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

The scholar, adviser to governments and civil-society groups, and advocate of Palestinian rights speaks on international law and world affairs. It is hard to place Richard Falk in any category that usefully describes the man. Princeton scholar, international lawyer, adviser…

Trump and Jerusalem: Will his “hard power” realism backfire bigly?

Trump and Jerusalem: Will his “hard power” realism backfire bigly?

December 10, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Like much of Trump’s foreign policy, the Jerusalem decision recognizes ugly facts about the U.S. role in the world Clarity is preferable to ambiguity even when the clear picture is grim. So I have found in many circumstances, and so…

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