Patrick Lawrence: Journalists-on-Journalists Crime
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I’ve read a lot of smear since Fox News dismissed Tucker Carlson as its premier evening news presenter late last month. How could…
Patrick Lawrence: Europe’s Fate
As a new world order takes shape before our eyes, the author, in a recent lecture, considers how Europe can best make use of its position on the eastern edge…
Patrick Lawrence: Force-Marching the Europeans
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost ZURICH—Am I the only American to travel overseas and feel embarrassed by the conduct of the diplomats Washington sends abroad to speak for…
Patrick Lawrence: Macron’s Europe
France’s president has proven himself to be a well-oiled weathervane. What he says on Monday may not match what he says or does on Wednesday. But his remarks while visiting…
Patrick Lawrence: The Disinformation Complex: An Anatomy
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Sometime in the mid–Russiagate years, when it became clear that America was on a swoon back into the collective neuroses of the 1950s,…
Patrick Lawrence: The Happiness of Others
For Americans, admitting that people in other parts of the world have and want different things from what they have and want can, in its subtle way, be devastating to…
Patrick Lawrence: French Streets and American Sofas
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost You might be Brazilian or Malian or Singaporean, it is remarkable the world over to watch the French explode into the streets of…
Patrick Lawrence: China and Russia Deepen Ties To Oppose US’s Destabilizing Actions
By Margaret Flowers / Popular Resistance The recent accord between Saudi Arabia and Iran, facilitated by China, signifies a seismic shift in geopolitical dynamics. This was followed by a three-day…
Patrick Lawrence: What Just Happened in Moscow Is Big
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Now that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have concluded their summit in Moscow– an unusually long series of meetings over three days–are those…
Patrick Lawrence: Biden and the ICC: ‘A New Level of Farce’
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost There are many things to say about the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on charges that…
Patrick Lawrence: Trump & the Stormy Deep State
We keep coming face-to-face with the wreckage of the Russiagate years, when the 45th president threatened the national security apparatus for, possibly, the first time since Kennedy fired Allen Dulles…
Patrick Lawrence: China’s Great Leap in the Middle East
What Beijing just sponsored and got done, putting two millennia of diplomatic craft to work, is an exquisite example of what can be accomplished once this imperative is fully realized.
Patrick Lawrence: What Dan Ellsberg Means
The term “Fourth Estate” had taken on the dust of a neglected antique before the release of the Pentagon Papers. Afterwards it seemed possible to think again of the press…
Patrick Lawrence: The Return of Non-Alignment
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The Ukraine conflict as catalyst: I wonder how many people who pay attention understood a year ago that Russia’s intervention and the West’s…
Patrick Lawrence: Russia Takes Another Step Back From the West
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost News that Russia will suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms pact, which arrived Tuesday via Vladimir Putin’s annual address to…