Patrick Lawrence: Breaking Bread with Authoritarians
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi with U.S. President Joe Biden at the G20 in November 2022 in Bali. (White House/Adam Schultz) By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News “For the first time in recent history, the White House is hosting a state dinner that’s entirely plant-based: no meat, no dairy and no eggs,” the reliably supercilious NPR reported as it curtain-raised the Biden White House’s state dinner for Narendra Modi last Thursday. The Indian prime minister, our corporate-sponsored national