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Patrick Lawrence: Truths That Come Out Like the Sun

Patrick Lawrence: Truths That Come Out Like the Sun

October 13, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

I read the other day the latest paper put out by those good people who run the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute. It is called “United States Spending on Israel’s Military Operations and Related U.S. Operations in…

Patrick Lawrence: Powerlessness

Patrick Lawrence: Powerlessness

September 27, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Let us begin with some facts of the cold, hard kind concerning conditions in Gaza and the West Bank after nearly a year of terrorist Israel’s daily assaults on the Palestinian populations in both places. These statistics derive from a…

Patrick Lawrence: The ‘War Party’ Makes Its Plans

Patrick Lawrence: The ‘War Party’ Makes Its Plans

September 18, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

The Biden White House and the Democratic Party machine trying to advance Kamala Harris from No. 2 in the regime to No. 1 gets more interesting by the week, I have to say. The Harris campaign has at last, two…

Patrick Lawrence: Gaza: Kamala Harris and the Disgrace of Denial

Patrick Lawrence: Gaza: Kamala Harris and the Disgrace of Denial

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

Outrage is a very fine thing. So is indignity. They are good for the circulation and keep one alert, I have always found. This is why I read The New York Times as diligently as I do. The once-but-no-longer newspaper…

Patrick Lawrence: The Sound of Enforced Silence

Patrick Lawrence: The Sound of Enforced Silence

August 29, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Is there some connection, — not quite official but it may as well be— between censorship and presidential politics? I pose the question as a survivor of the Russiagate years, when illiberal liberals started talking about “free-speech absolutists,” and when…

Patrick Lawrence: Zelensky’s Misadventures in Kursk

Patrick Lawrence: Zelensky’s Misadventures in Kursk

August 22, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

It has been three weeks since ground units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine crossed into the Kursk province in southwestern Russia, surprising — or maybe not surprising — the U.S. and its clients in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization….

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