Spain’s leader, with his government and his people, is signaling that the time has come to challenge the trans–Atlantic status quo and ultimately the world order altogether.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Pedro Sánchez’s ‘No a la Guerra’
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Jeffrey Sachs: Two Centuries of Russophobia & Rejection of Peace
While other powers are presumed to have legitimate security interests that must be balanced and accommodated, Russia’s interests are presumed illegitimate. Russophobia functions less as a sentiment than as a systemic distortion — one that repeatedly undermines Europe’s own security.
Patrick Lawrence: Exploding Gas Pipelines
The Europeans successfully resisted the American imperium’s impositions during the late Cold War years. They would not dream of any such effort now.
Patrick Lawrence: The Lost Man of Europe
Germany demonstrates the Continent’s abandonment of its honorable social-democratic traditions and its embrace, with the zealotry of the convert, of the neoliberalism of the Anglosphere.
UK Came & Went, Leaving Europe in a Mess
As Great Britain returns to the uncertainties of the open sea, it leaves behind a European Union that is bureaucratically governed to serve the interests of financial capital, writes Diana Johnstone.