By Patrick Lawrence / The Floutist After apparently lengthy negotiations via Julian Assange’s attorneys, the WikiLeaks founder agreed to plead guilty to one felony charge of illegally obtaining and publishing…
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Give me a sec to think. I need to make a list. Two. The genocide in Gaza, the Middle East tinderbox, Bezalel Smotrich,…
The Russian president’s time in Pyongyang and Hanoi gave clear evidence of the turn away from the West that Lavrov, the country’s foreign minister, announced at the start of the…
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost That Group of 7 gathering on the coast of the Adriatic June 13–15 was truly a doozy, I have to say. Readers might…
The June 5 criminal referrals are indication enough that the Oversight and Judiciary committees are far from done, spent, or at a dead end.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Ah, those elections last week to the European Parliament, in which voters across the European Union administered a sound whack to the technocrats,…
The hoax of “weaponized rape” in Gaza takes what seems a fatal hit.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost It is not difficult to be astonished these days, given how many things going on around us warrant astonishment. To pull something out…
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Here is a modest proposal, nothing too radical, just good sense. Turn over Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan to the Iranian authorities on…
What happens when a powerful nation cannot afford to lose a war it has already lost?
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I love the photograph The New York Times ran atop Jim Tankersley’s May 18 story analyzing the inadvisable raft of tariffs on Chinese…
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping added another to their count of 40–odd summit meetings when the Russian and Chinese presidents convened in Beijing,…
How did the Vietnamese prevail at that world-historical moment? The answers shed light on the world we see outside our windows now.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost “Not in my lifetime,” I used to think when contemplating America’s decline and fall—a decline and fall I eagerly anticipate as a prelude…
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The American media are never short of red-letter days when it comes to their wonderful combination of superciliousness and irresponsibility. But last week…
