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About 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 Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century.
  • When he had the mic. Brunswick, October 2025. (m. Spiess, cc by 3.0/ Wikimedia Commons.)

    “The political assassination of Graham Platner”

    Originally published: Floutist on July 10, 2026 (more by Floutist)

    The clearest things said about Graham Platner as he was forced to suspend his triumphantly buoyant campaign for a Maine Senate seat this week came from Graham Platner.

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    This war is the result of a coup

    Originally published: Patrick Lawernce Blog on April 15, 2026 (more by Patrick Lawernce Blog)

    The long, steady Zionist takeover in Washington is now complete. There is no longer any flinching from this.

  • A U.S. sailor standing small-craft action team watch on a catwalk aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford in the Suez Canal during U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran on March 5. (DoW/Public Domain)

    PATRICK LAWRENCE: Another war we’re not supposed to see

    Originally published: Consortium News on March 10, 2026 (more by Consortium News)  |

    You have to figure, if those waging war—and covering it—dedicate themselves this assiduously to keeping things hidden, there are surely things to hide.

  • Thought, language, action. Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1957. (Pedro Ribeiro Simões, cc by 2.0/ Wikimedia Commons.)

    “Free speech and its enemies”

    Originally published: Floutist on December 25, 2025 (more by Floutist)

    Defending it is our urgent task in the year to come, speech itself our instrument.

  • U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Vice Adm. Brad Cooper arriving in Bahrain for a virtual Red Sea security meeting with representatives of dozens of countries and the E.U. and NATO on Dec 19. (DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley)

    The mess they made of 2023

    Originally published: Consortium News on December 27, 2023 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Abroad and at home, ideology ruled the U.S.

  • Boxes of classified documents stored in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. (U.S. Department of Justice, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    The rape of Lady Justice

    Originally published: Consortium News on June 12, 2023 (more by Consortium News)  |

    This is an open-and-shut case of the judiciary being misused to keep Trump out of the political process. Unlike during the Russiagate years, liberal authoritarians know they are operating in broad daylight this time.

  • Soldier of the special regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine “Azov”. March in honor of the Day of the Defender of Ukraine. Kyiv. 2020. spoilt.exile, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    First there were Neo-Nazis, then there were no Nazis, then there were

    Originally published: ScheerPost on June 6, 2023 (more by ScheerPost)

    A New York Times’ reporter’s job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think.

  • Photo: Marco Pregnolato / Unsplash / PopularResistance.org

    Force-marching the Europeans

    Originally published: Popular Resistance on April 27, 2023 (more by Popular Resistance)  |

    Am I the only American to travel overseas and feel embarrassed by the conduct of the diplomats Washington sends abroad to speak for our republic?

  • U.S. Capitol. (U.S. National Archives, Public domain)

    A war of rhetoric & reality

    Originally published: Consortium News on December 27, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Washington put us all on notice when Zelensky got to town: It has no intention of seeking a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis and every intention of recommitting indefinitely to its ideological war.

  • Ceremony of opening of gasoline Nord Stream. Among others Angela Merkel and Dmitry Medvedev, 2011. Kremlin.ru, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Europe’s self destruction

    Originally published: ScheerPost on October 22, 2022 (more by ScheerPost)

    Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it.

  • Ceremony marking the start of construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline’s underwater section, 2010. Kremlin.ru, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Sins of silence

    Originally published: ScheerPost on October 8, 2022 (more by ScheerPost)

    The media’s treatment of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage is reminiscent of a time in the 60s when disaster could have been avoided with responsible reporting.

  • Anatomy of Our Murderers (Mr. Fish / Original to ScheerPost)

    In the terrain of Word War III

    Originally published: ScheerPost on September 25, 2022 (more by ScheerPost)

    The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) advanced decisively into Russian-held territory in northeastern Ukraine two weeks ago, exposing the weakness, incompetence, and cowardice of Russian soldiers and officers. The tide of this war has turned. The Russian army is on the way to defeat, and President Vladimir Putin could go down with it.

  • The Historic Collapse of Journalism

    The historic collapse of journalism

    Originally published: Consortium News on September 6, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters, writes Patrick Lawrence.

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    Patrick Lawrence: So far as I can make out

    Originally published: ScheerPost on August 11, 2022 (more by ScheerPost)

    Patrick Lawrence explores how the truth about Ukraine has turned into a recipe for anger and contempt from the Western media.

  • U.S. President Joe Biden after delivering remarks on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Feb. 24. (White House, Adam Schultz)

    The imaginary war

    Originally published: Consortium News on July 13, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    What were the policy cliques, “the intelligence community” and the press that serves both going to do when the kind of war in Ukraine they talked incessantly about turned out to be imaginary, a Marvel Comics of a conflict with little grounding in reality? I have wondered about this since the Russian intervention began on Feb. 24. I knew the answer would be interesting when finally we had one.

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    Patrick Lawrence

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

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    Patrick Lawrence

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

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    Patrick Lawrence

    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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