PATRICK LAWRENCE: Pedro Sánchez’s ‘No a la Guerra’
Patrick Lawrence for Consortium News I saw a video the other day that reminded me: Images often lie, which is why the propagandists favor them (and why I don’t usually…
The World This Week — Ray McGovern on War, Resistance & Ruling‑Class Panic
Posted by Joshua Scheer In case you missed it, our friends at Consortium News brought together three wise men for a wide‑ranging livestream on the state of world affairs—from the…
Patrick Lawrence: All Unquiet on the Ukrainian Front
The Europeans have run out of postures and gestures in the way of performative statecraft, and the Russians see no point in indulging them any further.
Patrick Lawrence: Imperial Boomerang
In the videos of a jumped-up ICE agent murdering Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis we see the violence of the American empire coming home to preserve itself.
Patrick Lawrence: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office.
Patrick Lawrence: After the First 70,669 Deaths
I take the 15 victims at Bondi Beach and divide them by the 71,000 deaths in Gaza as of this writing. I get a fraction of 0.0002143.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s ‘End of History’ Moment
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The Trumpster is not yet finished his first year back in the White House, and I cannot imagine how our crumbling republic will…
Patrick Lawrence: Zionism on the Upper East Side
What has lately transpired in the New York of Zohran Mamdani is a very direct extension of the impunity that encourages and protects the Israeli terror machine in Gaza and…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: What? Peace in Our Time in Ukraine?
The Trump regime’s 28–point Ukraine peace plan accepts Moscow’s core concerns as legitimate. That’s essential for any possible settlement of the war, or the broader crisis between Russia and the…
Patrick Lawrence: The Knesset and the ‘Post–9/11 Method’
The Zionist-nationalists who now determine Israel’s direction are on the way to passing a law that makes legal what is illegal according to the U.N. Charter, international law, and whatever…
Patrick Lawrence: Al-Qaeda Goes to Washington
Al–Sharaa’s White House visit is a reminder of Washington’s longstanding abhorrence of democratic processes and anyone — beyond the perimeter of the West and sometimes within it — who stands…
Patrick Lawrence: Zohran Mamdani and His (Our) Enemies
What makes this election especially interesting to me, my years in Manhattan long over, are the still-larger questions a runaway victory for Mamdani would raise.
Patrick Lawrence: The Voices of Many Jews
This very welcome letter marks out the significantly worsening alienation between world Jewry and the Zionists’ defacement of the Judaic tradition.
Patrick Lawrence: Desperation Row
Reflecting Volodymyr Zelensky’s confidence that the Trumpster would oblige him, he, Zelensky, actually visited Raytheon, the Tomahawk’s maker, before his session at the White House.
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.