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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Another War We’re Not Supposed to See

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Another War We’re Not Supposed to See

March 10, 2026 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

You have to figure, if those waging war — and covering it — dedicate themselves this assiduously to keeping things hidden, there are surely things to hide. I know for a fact that The New York Times has a multitude of correspondents on…

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 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: 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:  Gaza, We Cannot Remain Silent Any Longer

Patrick Lawrence:  Gaza, We Cannot Remain Silent Any Longer

July 25, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

I do not know how it is in your household, but in mine we have developed the practice over the past nine months of reciting to one another the most appalling of the news bulletins from Gaza that come our…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Defiles ‘Common Humanity’ During Pandemic

PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Defiles ‘Common Humanity’ During Pandemic

March 30, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Washington’s priorities are maintaining divisions, suspicions, animosities and enmities as if there were no global humanitarian crisis. Cuba sends 50–odd doctors and nurses to Italy, among the nations the COVID–19 virus has hit hardest. It was Cuba alone that assisted…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Now the Interim of US Self-Deception Over Bolivia

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Now the Interim of US Self-Deception Over Bolivia

November 25, 2019 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

To read the mainstream press on what just happened to Evo Morales is to enter a hall of mirrors. Years from now, maybe a generation from now, it will be permissible to describe Evo Morales’s resignation-at-gunpoint two weeks ago as…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Sudden-Seeming Power Shift in the Middle East

PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Sudden-Seeming Power Shift in the Middle East

October 28, 2019 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Despite the high-speed impression created by events in the past few weeks, the shifting trends of Russian and U.S. influence on the region have been underway for years.  Rarely do world events move at the velocity they now assume in the…

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