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Patrick Lawrence: Free Speech & Its Enemies
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/30/patrick-lawrence-free-speech-its-enemies/
Europe is convulsing as its “centrist” authoritarians impose an unprecedented regime of suppression of speech, but the mainstream media in America is silent about it. By Patrick Lawrence The Floutist This is the first of two essays The Floutist publishes, one glancing back…
#Politics #Analysis #Commentary #Disinformation #EuropeanUnion #FreePress #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #Media #Russia #Ukraine #Belgium #Censorship #CostasLapavitsas #DanielDavis #Eu #Europe #Fascism #FrancescaAlbanese #GeorgetownUniversity #JacquesBaud #Nato #PatrickLawrence #Switzerland #U.n.Watch #Un #YanisVaroufakis

Patrick Lawrence: Free Speech & Its Enemies
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/30/patrick-lawrence-free-speech-its-enemies/
Europe is convulsing as its “centrist” authoritarians impose an unprecedented regime of suppression of speech, but the mainstream media in America is silent about it. By Patrick Lawrence The Floutist This is the first of two essays The Floutist publishes, one glancing back…
#Politics #Analysis #Commentary #Disinformation #EuropeanUnion #FreePress #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #Media #Russia #Ukraine #Belgium #Censorship #CostasLapavitsas #DanielDavis #Eu #Europe #Fascism #FrancescaAlbanese #GeorgetownUniversity #JacquesBaud #Nato #PatrickLawrence #Switzerland #U.n.Watch #Un #YanisVaroufakis

PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/31/patrick-lawrence-new-years-notes-on-purported-leaders/
It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News “Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.” So did Chinese…
#Politics #Commentary #EuropeanUnion #France #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Genocide #Germany #GreatBritain #International #Iran #Ireland #Israel #Russia #U.s. #Zionism #CaitlinJohnston #CatherineConnolly #ChasFreeman #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #FriedrichMerz #KierStarmer #Narcissism #Netanyahu #PatrickLawrence #PedroSanchez #Russophobes #Spain #Ukraine #WorldWar

PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/31/patrick-lawrence-new-years-notes-on-purported-leaders/
It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News “Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.” So did Chinese…
#Politics #Commentary #EuropeanUnion #France #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Genocide #Germany #GreatBritain #International #Iran #Ireland #Israel #Russia #U.s. #Zionism #CaitlinJohnston #CatherineConnolly #ChasFreeman #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #FriedrichMerz #KierStarmer #Narcissism #Netanyahu #PatrickLawrence #PedroSanchez #Russophobes #Spain #Ukraine #WorldWar

PATRICK LAWRENCE: After the First 70,669 Deaths
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/19/patrick-lawrence-after-the-first-70669-deaths/
I take the 15 victims at Bondi Beach and divide them by the 71,000 deaths in Gaza as of this writing. I get a fraction of 0.0002143. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News CN at 30 I read in a…
#Politics #Australia #Column #Commentary #Gaza #Iran #Israel #Media #Propaganda #AntiSemitism #AustralianBroadcastingCorporation(abc) #BondiBeachAttack #BretStephens #DylanThomas #GazaGenoicde #IslamicState #JohnWhitbeck #Mossad #PatrickLawrence #SharonBrous #Shia #Sunni #TheNewYorkTimes #YakovRabkin #Zionism

PATRICK LAWRENCE: After the First 70,669 Deaths
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/19/patrick-lawrence-after-the-first-70669-deaths/
I take the 15 victims at Bondi Beach and divide them by the 71,000 deaths in Gaza as of this writing. I get a fraction of 0.0002143. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News CN at 30 I read in a…
#Politics #Australia #Column #Commentary #Gaza #Iran #Israel #Media #Propaganda #AntiSemitism #AustralianBroadcastingCorporation(abc) #BondiBeachAttack #BretStephens #DylanThomas #GazaGenoicde #IslamicState #JohnWhitbeck #Mossad #PatrickLawrence #SharonBrous #Shia #Sunni #TheNewYorkTimes #YakovRabkin #Zionism

PATRICK LAWRENCE: What? Peace in Our Time?
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/24/patrick-lawrence-what-peace-in-our-time/
The Trump regime’s 28–point Ukraine peace plan accepts Moscow’s core concerns as legitimate. That’s essential for any possible settlement of the war, or the broader crisis between Russia and the West. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News There are any…
#Politics #Column #Commentary #Germany #Media #Militarism #Nato #Russia #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #Ukraine #AustriaStateTreaty #ChasFreeman #Crimea #Donbas #Donetsk #Kherson #KirillDmitriev #Luhansk #PatrickLawrence #PresidentVladimirPutin #SteveWitkoff #ThomasFriedman #U.s.SecretaryOfStateMarcoRubio #Zaporizhzhia

PATRICK LAWRENCE: What? Peace in Our Time?
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/24/patrick-lawrence-what-peace-in-our-time/
The Trump regime’s 28–point Ukraine peace plan accepts Moscow’s core concerns as legitimate. That’s essential for any possible settlement of the war, or the broader crisis between Russia and the West. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News There are any…
#Politics #Column #Commentary #Germany #Media #Militarism #Nato #Russia #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #Ukraine #AustriaStateTreaty #ChasFreeman #Crimea #Donbas #Donetsk #Kherson #KirillDmitriev #Luhansk #PatrickLawrence #PresidentVladimirPutin #SteveWitkoff #ThomasFriedman #U.s.SecretaryOfStateMarcoRubio #Zaporizhzhia

CN at 30: The Knowledge & Experience of Insiders
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/21/cn-at-30-the-knowledge-experience-of-insiders/
Consortium News is comprised of former insiders at senior levels of intelligence and mainstream media who broke with the establishment to share their unique insights about the world with our readers. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News CN at…
#Politics #ConsortiumNews #ConsortiumNewsAt30 #FreePress #History #Intelligence #IranContra #Media #C.i.a. #CathyVogan #CentralIntelligenceAgency #CorinnaBarnard #DanEllsberg #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #JohnPilger #MikeGravel #OliverNorth #PatrickLawrence #RayMcgovern #RobertParry

CN at 30: The Knowledge & Experience of Insiders
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/21/cn-at-30-the-knowledge-experience-of-insiders/
Consortium News is comprised of former insiders at senior levels of intelligence and mainstream media who broke with the establishment to share their unique insights about the world with our readers. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News CN at…
#Politics #ConsortiumNews #ConsortiumNewsAt30 #FreePress #History #Intelligence #IranContra #Media #C.i.a. #CathyVogan #CentralIntelligenceAgency #CorinnaBarnard #DanEllsberg #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #JohnPilger #MikeGravel #OliverNorth #PatrickLawrence #RayMcgovern #RobertParry

Patrick Lawrence: The ‘Post–9/11 Method’
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/19/patrick-lawrence-the-post-9-11-method/
Ultra-Zionist Minister Ben–Givr wants the Zionist state to kill Palestinian prisoners of war. But there is a straight line between Washington’s post–9/11 abuses of international law and the death penalty vote in the Knesset last Monday. By Patrick Lawrence ScheerPost Maybe…
#Politics #Assassinations #Commentary #Gaza #HumanRights #Israel #Palestine #TrumpAdministration #Zionism #9/11 #AbuGhraib #AmnestyInternational #DeathPenalty #ErikaGuevaraRosas #Guantanamo #ItamarBenGvir #JohnYoo #Knesset #PatrickLawrence #Terrorism #Torture #Venezuela #WestBank

Patrick Lawrence: The ‘Post–9/11 Method’
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/19/patrick-lawrence-the-post-9-11-method/
Ultra-Zionist Minister Ben–Givr wants the Zionist state to kill Palestinian prisoners of war. But there is a straight line between Washington’s post–9/11 abuses of international law and the death penalty vote in the Knesset last Monday. By Patrick Lawrence ScheerPost Maybe…
#Politics #Assassinations #Commentary #Gaza #HumanRights #Israel #Palestine #TrumpAdministration #Zionism #9/11 #AbuGhraib #AmnestyInternational #DeathPenalty #ErikaGuevaraRosas #Guantanamo #ItamarBenGvir #JohnYoo #Knesset #PatrickLawrence #Terrorism #Torture #Venezuela #WestBank

WATCH: Our 30th Birthday Celebration
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/14/watch-our-30th-birthday-celebration/
Consortium News turned 30 years old Saturday. Robert Parry founded the first independent, online news publication in the U.S. on Nov. 15, 1995. We’re celebrating 3 decades of bringing you news others won’t. Watch the replay of our Saturday night…
#Politics #Analysis #Australia #ColdWar #Commentary #FreePress #Gaza #Genocide #History #Intelligence #Israel #Legal #Media #MiddleEast #Palestine #Russia #Ukraine #UnitedNations #Vips #Wmd #CathyVogan #ChrisHedges #ElizabethVos #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #JohnPilger #MaryKostakidis #PatrickLawrence #RayMcgovern #TheOttawaCitizen

WATCH: Our 30th Birthday Celebration
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/14/watch-our-30th-birthday-celebration/
Consortium News turned 30 years old Saturday. Robert Parry founded the first independent, online news publication in the U.S. on Nov. 15, 1995. We’re celebrating 3 decades of bringing you news others won’t. Watch the replay of our Saturday night…
#Politics #Analysis #Australia #ColdWar #Commentary #FreePress #Gaza #Genocide #History #Intelligence #Israel #Legal #Media #MiddleEast #Palestine #Russia #Ukraine #UnitedNations #Vips #Wmd #CathyVogan #ChrisHedges #ElizabethVos #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #JohnPilger #MaryKostakidis #PatrickLawrence #RayMcgovern #TheOttawaCitizen

Strong case for the prosecution. But so often when we accuse, we find our own sins in our adversaries (even when they genuinely are our adversaries' sins as well).

It's unbalanced, but a solid critique. The US legit squandered the soft power we once had, now stuff like this hits hard. The US has a great deal to repent.

But how persuasive to the world is a claim that what a hegemonic China might offer would in fact be a overall better?

We'll see.

via #PatrickLawrence

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html

Strong case for the prosecution. But so often when we accuse, we find our own sins in our adversaries (even when they genuinely are our adversaries' sins as well).

It's unbalanced, but a solid critique. The US legit squandered the soft power we once had, now stuff like this hits hard. The US has a great deal to repent.

But how persuasive to the world is a claim that what a hegemonic China might offer would in fact be a overall better?

We'll see.

via #PatrickLawrence

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html