Writer
Patrick Lawrence
Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the <em>International Herald Tribune</em>, is a columnist, essayist, lecturer and author, most recently of <em>Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century</em>. His new book <em>Journalists and Their Shadows</em>, is forthcoming from Clarity Press. His Twitter account, @thefloutist, has been permanently censored. His web site is <a href="http://www.patricklawrence.us/">Patrick Lawrence</a>. Support his work via <a href="http://www.patreon.com/thefloutist">his Patreon site</a>. His web site is <a href="http://www.patricklawrence.us/">Patrick Lawrence</a>. Support his work via <a href="http://www.patreon.com/thefloutist">his Patreon site</a>.
-
Rearmament and Europe’s welfare
Let’s see how Europeans respond when they are told their peace dividend is henceforth to be spent on the machinery of war — when it’s “howitzers instead of hospitals” now, as a New York Times article puts it. Continue reading »
-
Trial Balloon: Did the Pentagon deliberately sabotage Blinken’s China visit?
It seems the Pentagon has floated another one. The net result of this incident thus far is that the secretary of state has called off a scheduled summit to Beijing intended to reduce tensions. Continue reading »
-
Europe and the legitimisation of deception
The U.S., having no need of or gift for statecraft, has long practiced what I’ve taken to calling the diplomacy of no diplomacy. You can’t expect much from bimbos such as Antony Blinken or Wendy Sherman, Blinken’s No. 2 at the State Department. All they can do is roar, even if they are mice next Continue reading »
-
Zhou Enlai’s posthumous triumph
Nations now fashioning a post–Western world order appear to be abiding by the Five Principles espoused by China’s first and long-serving premier. Continue reading »
-
Respected American journalist demolishes Biden’s approach to China
I’ve given up being amazed at how stupidly the Biden administration conducts its diplomacy with China and, by extension, Asia altogether. I spend my time now being amazed at how stupid these people assume the Chinese and other Asians to be. Continue reading »
-
The collapse of foreign coverage in mainstream media
We are getting the worst press coverage of overseas events I can remember from the correspondents fielded in Ukraine. Continue reading »
-
The delusion of Biden and the price of power.
It is remarkable how quickly the Biden administration is acquiring its stamp — the watermark it will leave on our parchment when it is done. This will be made of isolation and delusion, in my read. I conclude this partly because of what President Biden and his people have done in the four months since Continue reading »
-
One does not accept for a moment that America is exceptional. (The Scrum Nov 9, 2020)
A humane health-care system? No—Biden has already said so. A proper infrastructure program? No. A jobs program, a Green New Deal? No and no. On the foreign side, renovated, 21st century policies toward Russia, North Korea, China, apartheid Israel? No, no, no, and emphatically no. What about the Iran nuclear accord—yes, that one, the one Continue reading »
