WATCH: TWTW — Still at War 250 Years Later
From the first attacks on Native Americans to the aggression on Iran, Americans have been at war, with perhaps the biggest one yet to come. Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Watch the replay. Guests: Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Host: Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy Vogan Segments: A…
WATCH: The World This Week w/Ray McGovern
IRAN – A week that changed the world, perhaps forever. Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence discuss it on The World This Week. Watch the replay. Guests: Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Host: Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy Vogan.
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…
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.
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: Germany in Crisis Part 2: A Short History of Exploding Gas Pipelines
This is the second of four reports on Germany’s various crises, the history that produced them and how Germans, other than the neoliberal elites who now hold power, think about their way forward. Part 1 of this series is here. POTSDAM—A single,…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: American-Century Flight
“American history is the history of the counterrevolution” — a discussion with author Joel Whitney about his latest book, Flights: Radicals on the Run. I have long nursed a keen interest in the Cold War’s corruptions on the cultural side — who…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Games Trump & Liberal Media Play
We are looking at a dysfunction that transcends the contest for power between liberal authoritarians — politely called “centrists” these days — and their rightist counterparts. If the Trump regime is any good at anything, it is escalation. Wars, sanctions,…