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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…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hillary Clinton at the UN?

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hillary Clinton at the UN?

November 16, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Whether or not Biden appoints her, things are getting very brazen and very bitter, very fast. We are now told that President-elect Joe Biden may name none other than Hillary Clinton to be his ambassador to the United Nations. This…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Talk of Another Pink Tide

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Talk of Another Pink Tide

November 2, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Expect an orgy of U.S. subterfuge. If there’s one thing Washington cannot abide more than a working social democracy, it’s a working social democracy in Latin America. The election of Luis Arce in Bolivia last month has been much celebrated in circles…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Mike Pompeo’s Cold-War Fever

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Mike Pompeo’s Cold-War Fever

September 22, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

As this dreadful year draws near its close, the top U.S. diplomat has put us at far more risk of war than we were at its start. Will we start a war with Iran? Will we invade Venezuela? Will we…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Voting in a De-Facto Military State

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Voting in a De-Facto Military State

August 31, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Between Biden and Trump, U.S. voters have no alternative to our anxious empire’s lawless conduct abroad. What are we in for on the foreign policy side come Nov. 3? Whoever wins this election, Joe Biden or Donald Trump, the answers…

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…

Bravate di Guerra Fredda nel Pacifico

Bravate di Guerra Fredda nel Pacifico

July 20, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

This Italian translation appeared on Sakeritalia. Prima è arrivata al Congresso la richiesta formale [in inglese] da parte del Dipartimento della Difesa per un  assegno di 20 miliardi di dollari per aumentare la propria presenza in tutto il Pacifico. Un mese dopo la…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Cold War Escapades in the Pacific

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Cold War Escapades in the Pacific

July 20, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

There is a lot to read into this moment, but one thing’s clear. The U.S. doesn’t know what time it is.   First came the Defense Department’s formal request to Congress for a $20 billion check to upgrade its presence across the Pacific. That…

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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