Patrick Lawrence: ‘Completely & Totally Obliterated’
The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Towers went…
Patrick Lawrence: The World’s Most Dangerous Man and His Enabler
Trump and Netanyahu just executed the cheapest sort of good-cop, bad-cop routine with Tehran.
Journalists and Their Shadows (w/ Patrick Lawrence) | The Chris Hedges Report
Patrick Lawrence and Chris Hedges chronicle the decline of mainstream media and the craft of journalism, and the dark psychological reality behind media complicity in schemes of the powerful.
Patrick Lawrence: For Whom the Drones Buzz
If military drones are “revolutionizing” instruments, then wherever we are, we are in a field of battle.
Patrick Lawrence: War in Our Time
It is well to remind ourselves that Russians view Merz’s ambitions on the military side, including his apparent determination to escalate Germany’s military support for Ukraine, through history’s lens.
Patrick Lawrence: The White House as Playpen
It is time, plain and simple, to give up the thought that anything good is to come out of Trump’s next three and a half years.
Patrick Lawrence: Waves Upon the Sea of Silence
Those who purport to lead and speak for the Western world — parliamentarians, senior foreign policy people, various corporate media — seem to be breaking their disgraceful silence 18 months…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 4: Wanderers and Seekers
Editor’s note: Earlier versions of this story reported Germany’s shock when Friedrich Merz initially failed to win sufficient Bundestag votes to assume office. After intense negotiations, he won back the…
Patrick Lawrence: Losing & Learning Nothing
The delusions about Ukraine continue as from the start. Washington and its puppet regime in Kiev have lost the war they provoked but there is no speaking of a defeat.
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 3: A Culture of Submission
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost This is the third of four reports on Germany in crisis. Part 1 of this series is here and Part 2 here. BERLIN—…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 2: A Short History of Exploding Gas Pipelines
In the postwar era this ambiguity, this state of “in between,” is best understood not as Germany’s burden but its great gift, and it is with this gift it could…
Patrick Lawrence: Late–Imperial Maladies
The worst part of living this distance from reality — or maybe the best part — is the knowledge, even if it is only subliminal, that we cannot go on…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 1 —The Lost Man of Europe
Of the many things said as the results of Germany’s national elections arrived on Sunday evening, Feb. 23, the most remarkable to me was the exclamation of the Federal Republic’s…
Patrick Lawrence: American Freefall
The extent to which the U.S. has embarked on a departure from reality is only a question for empires in their waning decades.
Patrick Lawrence: The Zionists Within
Trump will demonstrate the extent to which countless appendages of the Zionist cause demand America sacrifice itself to protect the barbarities of “the Jewish state” from criticism.