PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Diplomacy’s Last Breath
Trump, in his regime’s serial dishonesty, has reshaped the conventions of American diplomacy in the Israeli fashion. He has turned the U.S. into the same sort of pariah — never to be trusted. How long did it take for the…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A German Journalist’s ‘Civil Death’
Hüseyin Dogru is the first E.U. citizen to be sanctioned by the union and the first journalist to land on the list because of his work. What is Dogru’s crime? Don’t ask: He has not committed one. The following note…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: To Whom Are Our Liars Lying & What Is the Point of Their Lies?
In America’s late-imperial phase, conjured realities are preferable to reality. The creak of history’s wheel has become unbearable such that forlorn attempts to silence it are the only remaining resort. To make the case that those who purport to lead…
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 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…
WATCH: Premiere of ‘The World This Week’
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: What? Peace in Our Time in Ukraine?
The Trump regime’s 28–point Ukraine peace plan accepts Moscow’s core concerns as legitimate. That’s essential for any possible settlement of the war, or the broader crisis between Russia and the West. There are any number of reasons you may not like, or may even…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Iran & Ukraine — Two Theaters in the Non–West’s Single War for Parity
In Iran and Ukraine, what is at stake — what is fought for and against — is a rebalancing of power that will prove of world-historical magnitude when it is at last accomplished. First came news that, on April 8, Israeli…