PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s War on the Future Has a Past
The Trump-McMahon education edict: You will cooperate as we destroy the tradition of intellectual exploration that has endured for a thousand years — or we will starve you. Last autumn, well into the Trump regime’s full-frontal attacks on American universities…
WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 2
We break down Davos after Trump’s Greenland retreat, Mark Carney’s speech, Zelenksy berating the Europeans and Sy Hersh channeling Ukraine War myths. Meanwhile, Australia outlaws criticism of Israel. 8 pm EST tonight, Saturday. Joe Lauria and Patrick Lawrence analyze it for you at…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: All Unquiet on the Ukrainian Front
The Europeans have run out of postures and gestures in the way of performative statecraft, and the Russians see no point in indulging them any further. Sometimes wars have occasions that can be read — immediately, soon or in time…
WATCH: Premiere of ‘The World This Week’
CN Live! is launching a new series, The World This Week. WATCH THE REPLAY from Saturday’s first episode with guest Patrick Lawrence on Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland. Host: Joe Lauria Guest: Patrick Lawrence Producer: Cathy Vogan
“Winter blankets for refugee children.”
A brief appeal to our subscribers and readers. Amid the cold of another West Bank winter, the Development and Rehabilitation Association of New Askar refugee camp, also known as the Awdeh Center, has begun a “Warm Winter Campaign.” This is an…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Imperial Boomerang
In the videos of a jumped-up ICE agent murdering Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis we see the violence of the American empire coming home to preserve itself. The murder-in-broad-daylight of Renee Nicole Good on a Minneapolis street last Wednesday shapes up as a…
WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 3
The World This Week looks at Trump’s new threats against Iran, his tendency to chicken out, and a tribute to the great Michael Parenti, with Joe Lauria and Patrick Lawrence. Producer: Cathy Vogan