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Patrick Lawrence: Will Biden Provoke War with China?

Patrick Lawrence: Will Biden Provoke War with China?

June 3, 2022 · by Robert Sheer · in Articles, ScheerPost

Host Robert Scheer speaks with veteran foreign correspondent Patrick Lawrence on his criticisms of provocative US and NATO policies — and his subsequent ban by Twitter. “We are the provocateurs” — offered as a condemnation of current US foreign policy…

John Dower in Conversation: Part II

John Dower in Conversation: Part II

September 17, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

A preeminent scholar on the Pacific War uses WWII-era Japan to examine race and US imperialism today. In Part 1 of my conversation with John Dower, the distinguished scholar, author, and thinker, we explored his resistance to Cold War scholarship and its…

John Dower in Conversation: Part I

John Dower in Conversation: Part I

September 6, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

The groundbreaking historian of Japan talks about the challenges of scholarship during rapidly changing times. John Dower was “Dower the Tower” during my years as a correspondent in Japan. He was a giant in his field, one of the few…

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