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: 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.
Patrick Lawrence: Season of the Sophists
Yes, standing against the Trump regime’s swift, Draconian action against Mahmoud Khalil is like shooting at the side of a barn. I am queasily reminded of the Reich’s idea of…
Patrick Lawrence: The Epstein Follies
There appears to be a good chance that Trump and his people have concluded that there is a fine line between attacking the Deep State and going along with it.
Patrick Lawrence: Speak, Claudia!
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost LAGO de CHAPALA, Mexico—Watching that procession of hapless European supplicants passing through the Oval Office this week, my mind wandered briefly and came…
Patrick Lawrence: Chihuahuas, Not Dobermans
Trump’s determination to end the Ukraine war has forced the Europeans, at last, to go their own way. And they charge in precisely the wrong direction.
Patrick Lawrence: What Odds, as Trump Takes on the Deep State?
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost This is the second of two essays considering President Trump’s unfolding offensive against the institutions and agencies comprising the deep state — the…
Patrick Lawrence: Trump 2.0 Crosses the Atlantic
Whatever the future may hold — and seldom does it present such promise and peril as now — Trump and his national-security team set a lot of wheels in motion…