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The Biden regime wanders in a funhouse of its own making.     By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News  Of all the amateurish moments to arise as the Biden regime conducts its foreign policy, the White House’s official statement as B1–B bombers let loose over Iraq and Syria last Fri

Our decorous daily links: penguins found, Iceland fissures, Mass Gen Covid crisis, urban fruit & veg doubts, EU v. China, Germany + France strikes, moar Gaza razing. Lavrov lectures US, Turkiye approves Sweden NATO entry, Trump gag on, Haley loss in NH, Mexico suit v. gunmakers,

Sergei Lavrov’s recent comments are a case of the subtext being vastly larger than the text.   By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s steady, able, intellectually quick foreign minister, last week held one of those wide-ranging press conferences he and his

This president’s signature project — America will lead democratic nations in a crusade against the world’s authoritarians — is virtually nowhere taken seriously. By Patrick Lawrence ScheerPost There are many photographs of President Joe Biden floating around these days. Maybe it is beca

U.S. Foreign Policy as Spectacle. By Patrick Lawrence ScheerPost Those Israelis: They are too honest sometimes, aren’t they? It is damnably inconvenient when they explain in perfectly plain terms that the Israel Defense Forces’ intent in Gaza is to ethnic-cleanse the territory of Palestin

John Pilger, 1939–2023 By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News In the spring of 1983, the late and greatly missed John Pilger began broadcasting a series of interviews called The Outsiders on British television. His subjects ranged widely. Costa–Gavras, Jessica Mitford, Se

Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done. By John Pilger Sept. 7, 2022 In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We

Moscow seeks to facilitate internal cooperation and global outreach in its BRICS leadership strategy.

WARREN — A 23-year-old Detroit man remained jailed at press time after police said he shot an acquaintance at a Warren residence on Christmas morning.  Deandre Patrick Lawrence, 23, was arraigned in the 37th District  Court on Dec.