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WATCH: The World This Week w/Ray McGovern

WATCH: The World This Week w/Ray McGovern

March 7, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

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

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

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s War on the Future Has a Past

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s War on the Future Has a Past

January 28, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

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

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: Germany in Crisis Part 2: A Short History of Exploding Gas Pipelines

Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 2: A Short History of Exploding Gas Pipelines

April 21, 2025 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

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

PATRICK LAWRENCE: American-Century Flight

December 31, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

“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: Blinded to Syria

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Blinded to Syria

December 15, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

I do not know anyone who was not shocked by the lightning speed with which Damascus fell to expensively armed jihadist militias last weekend. I know very few people who do not understand that another domino has just fallen in the…

Patrick Lawrence: What Died 60 Years Ago?

Patrick Lawrence: What Died 60 Years Ago?

November 22, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

A President and a Nation’s Promise On January 9, 1953, The Washington Post published an editorial we can read all these years later as a murmur amid a long silence. “Choice or Chance” was a blunt worry about what the…

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