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The original Gaza Solidarity Encampment, just minutes after NYPD arrested ~100 protesters, and still surrounded by a large protesting crowd of students as well as bystanders. عباد ديرانية, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The American media are never short of red-letter days when it comes to its wonderful combination of superciliousness and irresponsibility. But last week the mainstream dailies and magazines went all the way to scarlet and alizar...

Political confusion and deluded notions of fascism colored Max Azzarello’s tragic death by self-immolation. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News On April 19, just as a court in Lower Manhattan finished selecting a jury to hear the farcical “hush money” case against Donald Trump,

With the U.S. unable to compete in the EV market and desperate in Ukraine, the Secretary of State traveled to China to talk at Beijing for his domestic audience. By Patrick Lawrence Scheer Post Antony Blinken was in China for his second such journey as secretary of state and his third enc

The Russians are coming — or coming back, better put. As the November elections draw near, let us brace for another barrage of preposterous propaganda to the effect Russians are poisoning our minds with “disinformation,” “false narratives,” and all the other misnomers deployed when facts contradict liberal authoritarian orthodoxies. PATRI

In the Lavender case, the data it produced were accepted and treated as if they had been generated by a human being without any actual human oversight or independent verification. A second AI system, sadistically named “Where’s Daddy?”—and how sick is this?—was then used to track Hamas suspects to their homes. The IDF intentionally targeted suspected militants…

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As NATO marked the 75th anniversary of its foundation, the alliance gathered Wednesday to discuss a proposal by chief Jans Stoltenberg for a €100 billion ($108 billion) five-year fund for Ukraine. The proposal is in preparation for a possible future without US support should former President Trump return to the Oval Office.

As European leaders continue to import a version of U.S. militarism, rearmament will cost the Continent its postwar social contract. By Patrick Lawrence in Zurich  Special to Consortium News  It is many years now since the French, bless them, revolted as Disneyland Paris arose near the pr

President Joe Biden delivers remarks announcing CHIPS and Science Act grants to Intel to expand U.S. semiconductor production, Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at the Intel Ocotillo Campus in Chandler, Arizona. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I just read a most remarkable piece in The Seattle Times—remarkable for its bluntly nihilistic candor. The headline atop Ron Judd’s August 2021 essay for The Times’s Pacific NW Magazine gives a good ...

There is nothing new about lying to Americans to get the empire’s business done. By Patrick Lawrence ScheerPost As I was saying to Diocletian over Prosecco just last week, it is hard to run an empire these days. You have to lie to people more or less incessantly to keep the troops minding t