Articles by Patrick Lawrence

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Grand Delusions
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

20 Feb 2024 – This year’s Munich Security Conference was predictably all about the imaginary danger that Russians intend to proceed westward into Europe as soon as they finish in Ukraine.

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Gaza Divides the World, Again
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

7 Dec 2023 – As the brutal crisis unfolds, the savage exercise of power by the U.S. and Israel has catalyzed world reactions. A significant transformation in global diplomacy is underway as the oppressed became the oppressors.

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Media’s Fatal Compromises
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

28 Nov 2023 – The practice of “embedding” struck me as a repellent compromise with power. It is no longer enough to tether correspondents to the perspective of the military from whose side they report. We are on the way to huge, bloody, consequential wars fought without any witnesses.

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‘The Hinge of History’
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

14 Nov 2023 – Palestine and the New World Order – Bombing hospitals was, just a few days ago, a red line the IDF dared not cross without provoking international condemnation. Today the IDF is bombing hospitals and its soldiers are shooting invalid patients as Gazans try to evacuate bombed buildings. 

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Israel: Deeper into Depravity
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Nov 2023

31 Oct 2023 – The video provokes a disgust as profound as any I have ever felt. It features Israelis recording themselves sadistically ridiculing Palestinians in the most cruel manner. They imitate Palestinian children dying or starving. They apply racially offensive makeup and mock Gazans as Israel deprives them of power, potable water, food and much else.

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Media: Bad Faith & Blank Checks
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

4 Sep 2023 – All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere. An excerpt from Lawrence’s new book, ‘Journalists and Their Shadows.’

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The Real Threat from China: They’re Better at Capitalism Than We Are
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

30 Aug 2023 – The Biden administration’s China strategy comes down to parrying, in a word. All the pointless talk is to obscure an effort to undermine China’s economy because we cannot compete with it, while—part two—buying time to move maximum U.S. military hardware as close to China as possible under the Pacific Defense Initiative.

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Independent Journalism as It Was: Portugal Case Study
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

8 Aug 2023 – Lisbon, following the revolution, was the author’s classroom. As Washington made another nation one of its experiments in altered reality, the U.S. press played POLO — “the power of leaving out” — with abandon. 

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US Still Nowhere with the Chinese
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023

20 Jun 2023 – The bitter truth is that the leaders of Biden’s foreign policy are too paralyzed by the ideology of American primacy to come up with a single, solitary new thought as to how to address other great powers as we enter an historically new era.

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Rearmament & Europe’s Welfare
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

17 May 2023 – Farewell to the Welfare State? Not Just Yet. Let’s see how Europeans respond when they are told their peace dividend is to be spent on the machinery of war — when it’s “howitzers instead of hospitals” now, as a New York Times article puts it.

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China’s Great Leap in the Middle East
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

14 Mar 2023 – 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.

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Totalized Censorship
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

20 Feb 2023 – Content warning, canceling, de-platforming, denying access: The fate of Sy Hersh’s Democracy Now! interview on YouTube is the latest indication of how much rougher press suppression is in this new media era. 

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Media: Objectivity and Its Discontents
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

14 Feb 2023 – It is one thing for reporters and editors to abandon the principle of objectivity as they hurl their hatchets at those who provoke their prejudices—Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, whomever. It is another for the retired coots now posing as the profession’s wise men to elevate these derelictions to the principle of there-are-no-principles. How far down the crater of corruption are those running US media’s newsrooms going to cascade?

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Japan Reenlists as Washington’s Spear-Carrier
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

21 Jan 2023 – It is always the same when Japanese premiers travel to Washington to summit [submit?] at the White House. Nothing seems to happen and nobody pays much attention even when important things happen, when we should all pay attention.

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Europe and the Legitimization of Deception
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023

8 Jan 2023 – The U.S. has long practiced the diplomacy of no diplomacy. You can’t expect much from bimbos such as Antony Blinken or Wendy Sherman, his No. 2 at the State Department. All they can do is roar, even if they are mice next to any serious diplomat. 

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The Sino-Russian Summit You Didn’t Read About
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023

4 Jan 2023 – The New York Times coverage of the recent summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping misses some of its most important details.

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Biden Sides with Trump in Killing Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

27 Nov 2022 – Events in the U.S. and in Israel indicate that the Biden administration has decided to drop all notion of reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action-JCPOA. Biden will hold to Trump’s position when he pulled the U.S. out of the pact in 2018. 

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Disinformation, Absolutely
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

1 Nov 2022 – Th­is is what our public discourse has come to. We in the USA have made a nonsense of ourselves. Our troubled republic sounds like an indecipherable cacophony amid which anything we say can be turned to mean other than what we mean. When we come across anyone who thinks differently than we do, we simply call him or her a disseminator of disinformation, a liar, and nothing more need be said. 

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Europe’s Self Destruction
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2022

22 Oct 2022 – Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it.

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Our Shared Addiction to Empire
Patrick Lawrence | Scheerpost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Oct 2022

If the Columbus myth has been thoroughly discounted, what is it that causes us to continue closing the banks, stopping the mail, and marching in parades on a Monday around October 12 each year?

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The Non-West Coalesces
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Oct 2022

16 Oct 2022 – Nations representing more than 80 percent of the global population and a like percentage of global gross domestic product are perfectly capable of seeing the Biden administration’s pointed provocations and do not approve.

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The Historic Collapse of Journalism
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2022

Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters.

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A Hall of Mirrors
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Aug 2022

19 Aug 2022 – I have long wondered why our mainstream journalists, correspondents and commentators give so similar accounts of things. This has been especially so in the Ukraine crisis: Keeping readers and viewers a safe distance from reality is a touchy matter. One slip and the shroud shreds.

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The New Iron Curtain
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 May 2022

16 May 2022 – The Ukraine crisis proves to be Europe’s crucible and Europe proves a profound disappointment.

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The US Bubble of Pretend
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

5 Apr 2022 – The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most North Americans.

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The Empire’s Last Stand
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

20 Sep 2021 – The origins of the first Cold War have been hopelessly blurred in the histories. We can watch this time. It is occurring before our eyes. I venture a prediction. When enough people begin to resist the madness and we begin to get somewhere, Cold War II will turn out to be the American empire’s last stand.

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Reporter Sharmine Narwani on the Secret History of America’s Defeat in Syria
Patrick Lawrence - Salon, 29 Apr 2019

21 Apr 2019 – After years covering the “main battlefield in World War III,” Narwani says everything you think you know is wrong.

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