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,…
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.
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: 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…
“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 – 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…