“As the world spins.”
‘The World This Week,’ a podcast.
17 FEBRUARY—We are struck frequently of late with the pace of events we think worth our readers’ attention. The ruling in Britain in favor of Palestine Action and its committed supporters, that summit of declining imperial powers called the Munich Security Conference, Bibi Netanyahu’s latest pas de deux with President Trump, war-with-Iran-or-no-war-with-Iran, a settlement or more war in Ukraine: These and other developments come nearly too fast to manage these days. Let us not forget the continuing revelations deriving from even a (criminally) censored version of the Epstein files, and the brilliantly hostile reception Australians afforded Isaac Herzog during the Israeli president’s official visit Down Under last week.
Consortium News, where The Floutist’s founding co-editor is a regular commentator, has begun a weekly podcast intended to accommodate our spinning world—spinning as in spinning nearly out of control. The World This Week, “TW2” in our household, airs Saturday evenings at 8:00, East Coast American time. We are pleased to reproduce last Saturday’s segment here. In it Joe Lauria. Consortium’s editor-in-chief, is joined by Patrick Lawrence and, this time around, the redoubtable Ray McGovern. They take up all of the above-noted topics and then some.
This is TW2 No. 5. For those readers who may be interested, we also make available the first four programs.
—The Editors
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/02/14/watch-the-world-this-week-w-ray-mcgovern/
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The earlier editions of The World This Week are below, the most recent first.
TW2 No. 4 appeared 7 February:
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/02/07/watch-the-world-this-week-episode-4/
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TW2 No. 3 appeared 30 January:
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/30/watch-the-world-this-week-episode-3/
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TW2 No. 2 appeared 24 January:
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/24/watch-the-world-this-week-episode-2/
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TW2 premiered 16 January:
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/16/watch-premiere-of-the-world-this-week/
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