WATCH: The World This Week – w/Ray McGovern
Former C.I.A. Russia analyst Ray McGovern joins Episode 5 of The World This Week to discuss the war in Ukraine and the Middle East. Watch the replay. The World This Week discusses the Ukraine War and the Middle East with former C.I.A. analyst Ray…
Patrick Lawrence: The Empire of Illusion – How Journalists Lose Their Shadows
American journalist and author Patrick Lawrence talks to Patrik Baab about the state of Western journalism – between self-censorship, imperial ideology and loss of authenticity. Lawrence, who has written for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Nation,…
“An award for one of our own.”
In the name of a correspondent who paid the highest price. Recognition does not grow so plentifully at our end of the garden. This is simply the way it is in the media terrain of the Western post-democracies. Independent media…
WATCH: The World This Week – Episode 4
Hiding Epstein’s ties to Israel; new nuclear danger as New START ends; Palestine Action acquitted in London, poised to protest Herzog in Sydney, The World This Week. Watch the replay. Host: Joe Lauria. Guest: Patrick Lawrence. Producer: Cathy Vogan.
“Hope, ‘an act of resistance.’”
A ‘West Bank Alert.’ Hope is not in plentiful supply these days, not among those with their eyes open, those taking the time to pay attention to events in West Asia and elsewhere. Personally, I have long considered hope the…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: AIPAC’s Anxieties
The Israel lobbies’ grip on U.S. politics has slipped beyond restoration since Oct. 7, 2023 due to the Zionist army’s own savagery in Gaza. If Charlies Kirk’s well-documented defection from the Zionist cause confirmed one thing above all others, it…
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
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: Serial Buffoon at the Pentagon
Trump elevated outsiders without necessary experience to his cabinet to avoid the deep state subversion that was rampant during his first term. The “blob” responded by making some of them irrelevant. Someone wondered aloud on a social media platform the…