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Patrick Lawrence

Patrick Lawrence is Salon’s foreign affairs columnist. A longtime correspondent abroad, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune and The New Yorker, he is an essayist, critic, editor and contributing writer at The Nation. His most recent book is “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century”. Follow him on Twitter. Support him at Patreon.com. His web site is patricklawrence.us.

Vienna, Austria during final round of Iranian nuclear negotiations with the P5. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. July 2015.

Sharmine Narwani on the end of the Syrian war and the “post-imperial Middle East”

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Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy leader of Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi or Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs), Iraqi paramilitary forces created to defeat ISIS. The US describes Muhandis as "an advisor to (IRGC Quds Force Commander) Qassem Suleimani." Photo taken in Baghdad, Iraq in December 2017.

Reporter Sharmine Narwani on the secret history of America’s defeat in Syria

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FILE - In this April 20, 2014 file photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, talks to government soldiers during his visit to the Christian village of Maaloula, near Damascus, Syria. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s statement Tuesday, April 11, 2017, that the reign of President Bashar Assad’s family “is coming to an end” suggests Washington is taking a much more aggressive approach about the Syrian leader. Taking him out of the equation without a clear transition plan would be a major gamble. (SANA via AP, File) (AP)

What happens when Assad wins the war in Syria?

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Robert Meister (YouTube)

Scholar Robert Meister on a new model: Using the financial markets to fuel historical justice

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Smoke billows in the town of Douma, the last opposition holdout in Syria's Eastern Ghouta. (Getty/Salon)

Is the U.S. about to give up on its lawless and catastrophic adventure in Syria?

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Robert Meister (YouTube)

Scholar Robert Meister on America: Saying “the past is evil” doesn’t mean the evil is past

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Donald Trump walks with Kim Jong Un, June 12, 2018 in Singapore. (AP/Evan Vucci)

If it’s hard for you to deal with Korean peace talks because of Trump, maybe get your head checked

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Donald Trump; Kim Jong-un (Getty/Alex Wong/AP/Korea Broadcasting System)

Is the Korean spring now over and the Trump-Kim summit on hold? Maybe — and maybe not

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After the Iran deal: A foreign policy built on arrogance, ignorance and sheer desperation

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Donald Trump; Hassan Rouhani; Emmanuel Macron (Getty/AP)

Trump is about to kill the Iran deal — and what lies ahead could be catastrophe

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un poses with South Korean President Moon Jae-in inside the Peace House at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone, April 27, 2018. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP)

History is being made on the Korean peninsula: But what kind? And who will make it?

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Mike Pompeo; Kim Jong-un; Donald Trump (Getty/AP/Salon)

Peace in Korea is possible: Talks between Trump and Kim Jong-un will define the future

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Smoke billows in the town of Douma, the last opposition holdout in Syria's Eastern Ghouta. (Getty/Salon)

Trump and allies approach World War III in Syria, on literally no evidence

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Italian writer Edoardo Nesi on the illusions of global capitalism: “We have lost our way”

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Vladimir Putin; Theresa May (AP/Alexei Nikolsky/Peter Nicholls/Salson)

The Skripal snafu: Whose interests are served by confrontation with Russia?

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John Bolton; Donald Trump; Kim Jong-un (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Will John Bolton ruin the chances for peace on the Korean peninsula?

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Behind this week’s Russia headlines: A mystery, a leap to conclusions and a fateful turn

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Donald Trump; Kim Jong-Un (AP/Evan Vucci/Getty/KCNA)

Trump’s summit with Kim could be a breakthrough — if the generals allow it to happen

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(AP/Mark Humphrey/Salon)

Team Trump seems bent on undoing the Iran deal: So what happens next?

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Members of the Syrian Civil Defense group extinguishing a store during airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, Syria. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Syria’s tragedy, America’s crime: The collapse of national sovereignty

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Benjamin Netanyahu (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Bibi’s downfall: Is the most dangerous man in the Middle East done for?

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(AP/David Zalubowski/Getty/ Lars Baron)

A major opening at the Pyeongchang Olympics — but not from Mike Pence

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Investigative Journalist, Robert Parry. (AP)

More than a muckraker: Robert Parry believed in the possibilities of our craft

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Donald Trump; Kim Jong-un; Bashar al-Assad; Vladimir Putin (AP/Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Now the U.S. is playing spoiler role in Korea, Syria and elsewhere. But why?

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