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The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Patrick Lawrence Examines How the Western Press Has Become a Propaganda Tool of the War Industry and Ukrainian Government
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Patrick Lawrence Examines How the Western Press Has Become a Propaganda Tool of the War Industry and Ukrainian Government The war in Ukraine has exacerbated the loss of credibility within the western press, inflicting, journalist Patrick Lawrence argues, irreparable damage. The Ukraine conflict has plunged the world into a […]
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Empire with a Human Face
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Empire with a Human Face The Biden people are unlikely to speak of a new cold war with China, but they appear likely to wage one all dressed up as a sophisticated trans–Pacific strategy. A portion of China’s Great Wall at dawn. (Hao Wei, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) Those boneheaded Trump people explained […]
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Iranian Tankers & the Age of Interdiction
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Iranian Tankers & the Age of Interdiction Two forms of interdiction — the steady expansion of U.S. sanctions and our stunning drift toward unmasked censorship — have begun to intersect. Over the weekend, a sixth Iranian cargo ship entered Venezuelan waters and is due to dock shortly. It follows a convoy of five Iranian tankers […]
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Accelerating Imperial Decline
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Accelerating Imperial Decline Washington’s foreign policy towards Iran is driven by desperation rather than a reasoned understanding of a world in historically significant flux. That can lead only to a continuing succession of failures. The kinetic events of the past week in Washington, Tehran, and the Persian Gulf were nothing if not revealing. President […]
The Revelations of WikiLeaks: No. 3—The Most Extensive Classified Leak in History
The Revelations of WikiLeaks: No. 3—The Most Extensive Classified Leak in History The “Iraq War Logs” disgorged an unprecedented profusion of documents, military reports and videos. ***** For WikiLeaks, 2010 was an exceptionally eventful year. In April the transparency organization released “Collateral Murder,” the video of U.S. Army helicopters as they shot more than a dozen Iraqis in […]
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The US Moves on Iran’s Oil Market as an Expression of an Irrational Foreign Policy
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The US Moves on Iran’s Oil Market as an Expression of an Irrational Foreign Policy Patrick Lawrence gauges the backfiring potential of Pompeo’s withdrawal on Thursday of U.S. sanction waivers from eight major importers. A Decisive Defeat in Long-Running Battle with Foreign Policy Minders Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement last week that […]
The Battle for Our Minds
The Battle for Our Minds There are battlefields in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere, but given the state of corporate media, perhaps the most consequential battle now being fought is for our minds, says Patrick Lawrence. After reading The New York Times piece “The Plot to Subvert an Election” I put the paper down with […]
Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran
Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran America’s three principal adversaries signify the shape of the world to come: a post-Western world of coexistence. But neolibera and neocon ideology is unable to to accept global pluralism and multipolarity, argues Patrick Lawrence. The Trump administration has brought U.S. foreign policy to the […]
‘Too Big to Fail’: Russia-gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack
‘Too Big to Fail’: Russia-gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack One year later, the VIPS memo contending that the DNC emails were leaked and not hacked has yet to be successfully challenged. Meanwhile, the country sinks deeper into the morass of the new McCarthyism, comments Patrick Lawrence. A year has […]
