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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 idea

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