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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…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Moscow’s Difficult Decision on Idlib

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Moscow’s Difficult Decision on Idlib

March 3, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Turkey’s leader, who nurses dreams of some kind of neo–Ottoman restoration across the Middle East, is now on a reckless tear. As Recip Tayyip Erdogan prosecutes his latest military intrusion southward into Syria, all the old mythologies about the Turkish president and…

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…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Predictable Mess on Syria’s Border with Turkey

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Predictable Mess on Syria’s Border with Turkey

October 14, 2019 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Trump just missed an opportunity to pull back troops without inducing another bloodbath. In less than a week, a new front has opened in Syria’s 8-year, all-but-over war, featuring hot- and cold-running proxies from its earliest days. Syrian sovereignty is…

Sharmine Narwani on the end of the Syrian war and the "post-imperial Middle East"

Sharmine Narwani on the end of the Syrian war and the “post-imperial Middle East”

April 28, 2019 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Middle East correspondent Narwani sees a new era emerging in Asia, while Trump, Pompeo and Bolton bluster In part one of my exchange with Sharmine Narwani, the Beirut-based correspondent dissected the just-ended Syrian conflict as one of the very few journalists…

Reporter Sharmine Narwani on the secret history of America's defeat in Syria

Reporter Sharmine Narwani on the secret history of America’s defeat in Syria

April 21, 2019 · by Clifford Tremblay · in Articles, Salon

After years covering the “main battlefield in World War III,” Narwani says everything you think you know is wrong When the war in Syria was recently declared decisively over, there were few correspondents or witnesses to turn to for a…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Pompeo, Pence & the Alienation of Europe

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Pompeo, Pence & the Alienation of Europe

February 19, 2019 · by Clifford Tremblay · in Articles, Consortium News

If the objective was to further isolate the U.S., the two officials could not have done a better job last week, writes Patrick Lawrence. What a job Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did in Europe…

Don’t Hold Your Breath on US Troop Withdrawal from Syria

Don’t Hold Your Breath on US Troop Withdrawal from Syria

December 19, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

It would be nice to think the president has final say on foreign policy, given the U.S. Constitution. But the misleading troop withdrawal announcement, followed by Trump’s boastful tweet, suggests the exact opposite, says Patrick Lawrence. The announcement on Wednesday…

America’s Absence in Istanbul: A Sign of Decline, Not Surrender

America’s Absence in Istanbul: A Sign of Decline, Not Surrender

November 13, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Team Trump missed the summit on Syria. In that, Patrick Lawrence sees another sign of Washington’s failure to accept its loss of diplomatic primacy. Lost in the Memory Palace: US Leads, But No One Follows You would hardly know it from…

The Trump Administration’s Spoiler Foreign Policy

The Trump Administration’s Spoiler Foreign Policy

August 30, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

U.S. strategy abroad is assuming a curious shape. Whether the president or his minders are running affairs, Patrick Lawrence sees the U.S. being reduced to playing a spoiler role in the Middle East and Northeast Asia. It is not possible…

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