The obsessive humanization of the Bondi Beach victims is an upside-down exercise in dehumanization. Jewish lives count, white lives count…
Author: Patrick Lawrence
Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune, is a columnist, essayist, author and lecturer. His most recent book is Journalists and Their Shadows, available from Clarity Press or via Amazon. Other books include Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century. His Twitter account, @thefloutist, has been restored after years of being permanently censored. His website is Patrick Lawrence.us. Support his work via his Patreon site.
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling . . .
A critical mass gathers against the Zionist state.
Let Us Now Bury the Truth (Again)
What is going around now is another coverup, a denial of what people on both sides call “the second Nakba,” the sin atop the original sin.
That Big, Beautiful Summit in Alaska
Instead of a halt to the slaughter the president left Anchorage with pictures of him and Mr. Putin joshing on a red carpet.
Truths That Come Out Like the Sun
We all know George Orwell’s line in “1984”: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
The Murder of Ismail Haniyeh
I have for decades considered Palestine the suppurating sore on humanity’s flesh. The cause and the remedy just became more obvious.
The Banality of Propaganda
Are we to wander indefinitely in a state of negativity, of not believing, of alienation from our own polities?
Roger Waters and the One-State Solution
“All these years it felt to me almost as if we’re deaf to Mother Nature’s calls for equal human rights for our brothers and sisters.”
Reading the Mess the Democrats Have Made
The Hunter Biden affair could now prove to be Biden’s greatest vulnerability—and so the Democratic Party’s.
Munich as Propaganda Fest
Ukraine should be a bridge for communication between the East and the West, not a frontier for confrontation between major powers.
A War of Rhetoric and Reality
Washington has no intention of seeking a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis, recommitting indefinitely to its ideological war.