Patrick Lawrence: Trump vs. the Deep State
Either Donald Trump will begin to exert political control over the invisible government or the invisible government will sink Donald Trump just as it did during his first term as…
Either Donald Trump will begin to exert political control over the invisible government or the invisible government will sink Donald Trump just as it did during his first term as…
At this fraught moment, we cannot use Trump to hide ourselves from ourselves, as many Americans, especially their purported leaders, are very prone to doing.
The new liberal consensus, born of a shared “exhaustion,” is that it is time to “tune out,” or “take a break,” or simply close one’s eyes and ears.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Well, we now have a president who says what he means, and this is an advance beyond the four years Americans spent listening…
By professing support for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after opposing it for years, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence has just told America it’s the…
“American history is the history of the counterrevolution” — a discussion with author Joel Whitney about his latest book, Flights: Radicals on the Run.
What happens when a great but declining power loses a war, the very most decisive war, it cannot afford to lose?
Decades after deploying mass violence and rendering citizens grotesquely ignorant of the world, U.S.-led powers appear willing to risk world war, while reinventing a terrorist to lead what was a…
What is unfolding now in France is unfolding one or another way across those Western powers that form the walls of the neoliberal fortress.
Given Joe Biden’s apparently intimate involvement in Hunter’s dealings, it follows that his intent in pardoning his son is effectively to secure a pardon for himself.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Is it all right to be happy over a holiday that has “Happy” in its name? The genocide of a long-suffering people to…
It wasn’t hard to foresee that those planning and executing U.S. foreign policy, lacking all imagination and anything remotely resembling courage, would prove incapable of an orderly transition to a…
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost LONDON—There is an old, often-told story about a front-page article one of the big dailies here once ran as severe weather hit in…
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Donald J. Trump’s second four years in the White House are shaping up to be more fun than a barrel of monkeys, as…
What happened in one Dutch city is the world since the Zionist regime began its limitlessly barbaric assault on Gaza: Western powers blessed it, and Western media determined to hide…