Patrick Lawrence: Against Chutzpah
“They’re like five-year-olds!” Thunberg exclaimed to Röstlund as she recounted all this. No, that’s not it, Greta. They’re like Zionists.
Patrick Lawrence: Let Us Now Bury the Truth (Again)
What is going around now is another cover up, another denial of what a lot of people on both sides call “the second Nakba,” the sin atop the original sin.
Patrick Lawrence: Power and Justice
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Those were an eventful few days as the General Assembly convened at the United Nations Secretariat in New York Sept. 22. France, Belgium,…
Patrick Lawrence: The War Dept’s War on Media
The Pentagon’s new restrictions will bar correspondents covering the American military from covering the American military, as the Trump regime attempts to exert full-spectrum control over media.
Patrick Lawrence: Our Age of Unreason
We have lost that connection between reason and morality …. We have decisively lost our idea of the commonweal as the anchor from which reason will make its case.
Patrick Lawrence: To Whom Goes the Good?
We find ourselves plunging well beyond the apple-pie authoritarianism that threatened a few years ago. No apple pie this time.
Patrick Lawrence: A Nation of Narcissists
Narcissism is the open-and-shut condition of the elites who fashion and execute American foreign policy. And they are utterly incapable of seeing their country as it is.
Patrick Lawrence: The State of the ‘State of Palestine’
To put the point simply, Israel has murdered, starved and terrorized too many Palestinians for this year’s gathering at the Secretariat in Manhattan to conclude without some conclusions.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump & the Russophobes
The extent to which Trump’s démarche toward Moscow succeeds will be the extent to which the U.S. can transcend a long, regrettable history and finally embrace the 21st century.
Patrick Lawrence: That Big, Beautiful Summit in Alaska
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost No, the Trump–Putin summit at a joint-forces military base in Anchorage last Friday did not produce an agreement on a ceasefire in Ukraine.…
Patrick Lawrence: Yes, It’s a Genocide
We are now urged — and required by law in many jurisdictions — to accept a definition of “antisemitism” that is beyond preposterous.
Patrick Lawrence: Washington Takes on the BRICS
Trump’s lashing out at the group of non-Western nations is so clumsy, so off the mark, so utterly unaware of where the hands are on history’s clock.
Patrick Lawrence: Sun Valley vs. Queensbridge
This will be a riveting campaign season; in my read it is unlikely to be a pretty one.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump Dead-Ends Putin
For a good long time what’s been happening in Ukraine is nothing more than postwar gore. If you have lost a war but cannot admit it, you are playing the…
Patrick Lawrence: Now What?
“How can you tell,” Reuters asked in a June 29 report, “if enriched uranium stocks, some of them near weapons grade, were buried beneath the rubble or secretly hidden away?”