Patrick Lawrence: The War We’re Finally Allowed to See
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Let us consider the following paragraphs, which appear in the May 29 edition of The New Yorker: While Tynda and his team were…
Patrick Lawrence: Deaf, but Not Blind to US Decline
In Fiona Hill’s recent speech it’s possible to detect the very faint signals of Washington’s policy elite responding to the immense global power shift that is underway.
Patrick Lawrence: John Durham and the Burying of American History
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost There are certain things I do not quite get since Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the epically corrupt conduct of Donald Trump’s…
Journalists for Sale: Tucker, Teixeira and Taibbi (w/ Patrick Lawrence)
By Diego Ramos and Max Jones / Original to ScheerPost ScheerPost’s own Max Jones and Diego Ramos are back with another video interview except this time it is under the…
Patrick Lawrence: The Origin of the Specious
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost “Why is our collective mood so sour? We are awash with material wealth, and technology provides us with unprecedented powers. But this veneer…
Patrick Lawrence: Farewell to the Welfare State? Not Just Yet.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Maybe you recall all the post–Cold War talk of a “peace dividend” and maybe you don’t: It depends on when you took up…
Patrick Lawrence: The USA’s Soviet-Style President
We are in for 19 months of relentless, insultingly transparent spin by way of which a patently incompetent man will be purveyed as commander in chief for another four years.
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: 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 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: 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.