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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The US National Emergency

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The US National Emergency

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

COVID-19 calls on us to consider our plundered commons and unite around four truths made conspicuous by the pandemic. Now that the Trump administration has declared the COVID–19 virus a national emergency, it is plain that this once-a-century catastrophe has some things…

Tragedy of the Rohingya: The Burmese crisis and the nation-state

Tragedy of the Rohingya: The Burmese crisis and the nation-state

November 5, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Where did the human rights disaster in Myanmar come from? Believe it or not, the Catalan situation is related A number of readers wrote last week, either via the comment thread or email to my website, in response to a column…

The Catalan crisis: Is the contemporary nation-state in jeopardy?

The Catalan crisis: Is the contemporary nation-state in jeopardy?

October 29, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Spain’s clumsy government has made a difficult situation worse. That doesn’t mean the nation should be dismembered We reach a grim moment in the crisis between Catalonia and the Spanish state. And it has come hard and fast since late…

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