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“The Biden blackout.”

“The Biden blackout.”

December 17, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Elsewhere, Featured, The Scrum

“Soft despotism” is upon us. This article first appeared on The Scrum. DECEMBER 17—Those who followed events in 2016 with sufficient acuity will have registered events it is now well to recall. In the infra dig response of liberals to…

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…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Weakness for Power

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Weakness for Power

February 3, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Consortium News

Coercive might and money may be all that matter in Manhattan real estate.  But they are bound to sink the president’s take-all-you-want “deal of the century” for Israel.   With the publication of the Trump administration’s Mideast “deal of the…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Latest & Most Reckless US Imperial Act

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Latest & Most Reckless US Imperial Act

January 21, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Following the U.S. assassination of Soleimani, the Trump administration is leading American conduct abroad into a zone of probably unprecedented lawlessness. Of all the preposterous assertions made since the drone assassination of Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on Jan. 3, the…

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: Trump’s Creaky Door to Peace in the Koreas

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Creaky Door to Peace in the Koreas

December 10, 2019 · by Clifford Tremblay · in Articles, Consortium News

The question is, which side betrayed the once-promising prospect of denuclearization and an end of seven decades of flashpoint tension in Northeast Asia. In June 2018, when Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un summitted in Singapore, the American and North Korean…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Impeachment Pantomime

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Impeachment Pantomime

November 12, 2019 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The political theatrics that begin Wednesday raise several questions. For starters, will Joe Biden be investigated for mounting evidence of corruption? And why is the  corporate media turning the CIA “whistleblower” into a phantom in plain sight?  Now that “Russiagate” has…

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…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: At UN, European Allies & Trump Clip Pompeo’s Hawk Wings

PATRICK LAWRENCE: At UN, European Allies & Trump Clip Pompeo’s Hawk Wings

September 27, 2019 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

After the recent strikes on Saudi oil facilities, E-3 leaders offered a sop to the secretary of state but resisted key elements of his “maximum hostility” campaign towards Iran while  Trump also distanced himself.  This week’s General Assembly at the United Nations…

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