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WATCH: The World This Week – w/Ray McGovern

WATCH: The World This Week – w/Ray McGovern

February 14, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Appearances, Articles, Consortium News

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…

WATCH: The World This Week – Episode 4

WATCH: The World This Week – Episode 4

February 7, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Appearances, Articles, Consortium News

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.

WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 3

WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 3

January 30, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Appearances, Articles, Consortium News

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

WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 2

WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 2

January 24, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Appearances, Articles, Consortium News

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

PATRICK LAWRENCE: All Unquiet on the Ukrainian Front

January 21, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

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’

WATCH: Premiere of ‘The World This Week’

January 16, 2026 · by Clifford Tremblay · in Appearances, Articles, Consortium News

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

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Zionism on the Upper East Side

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Zionism on the Upper East Side

December 3, 2025 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

What has lately transpired in the New York of Zohran Mamdani is a very direct extension of the impunity that encourages and protects the Israeli terror machine in Gaza and the West Bank. We watch in horror from afar as…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Desperation Row

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Desperation Row

October 20, 2025 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Reflecting Volodymyr Zelensky’s confidence that the Trumpster would oblige him, he, Zelensky, actually visited Raytheon, the Tomahawk’s maker, before his session at the White House. What a big game Volodymyr Zelensky talked before his latest little while in the Oval…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The War Dept’s War on Media

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The War Dept’s War on Media

September 30, 2025 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The Pentagon’s new restrictions will bar correspondents covering the American military from covering the American military, as the Trump regime attempts to exert full-spectrum control over media. It should be evident by now to anyone paying even casual attention that exerting…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Nation of Narcissists

PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Nation of Narcissists

September 9, 2025 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Narcissism is the open-and-shut condition of the elites who fashion and execute American foreign policy.  And they are utterly incapable of seeing their country as it is. All those malign authoritarians, more than 20 of them, who gathered in Tianjin…

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