Ray McGovern

Scott Ritter, Joe Lauria & I discuss why journalists like Isikoff and Corn, who were never held to account for their Russiagate fairy tales, keep slithering out of The Swamp with new Russophobic drivel. Is it more than simply to earn tickets to cruise with hoi aristoi?

Will You Stick Your Neck Out? Our Founders risked their lives, fortunes, sacred honor. Can we imitate their boldness & take similar risks to ‘keep our Republic’, as mid-term troubles near? Or will we ape the sheep-like submissiveness of Germans in the 30s?

Glenn Greenwald, Thomas Drake, John Kiriakou, Coleen Rowley, Gabriel Shipton & I together at Integrity Media discuss whistleblower hurdles & Ed Snowden, who escaped the worst, thanks largely to Julian. Uncle Gabriel shared with me excitement of Julian/Stella over their 3rd child – coming soon. 

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Face the Facts, instead of Face the Nation, on Consortium News Live. A eventful week. New Yorkers Rick Wolff & I get up early, hoping that you can wake up others to the lies in corporate media. You don’t even have to buy us a cup of cawfee.

At UN Sec Council yesterday, Russia’s Lavrov spoke documented truth on Ukraine. https://consortiumnews.com/2026/09/23/what-lavrov-told-the-un-security-council/ His remarks not reported in today’s NYT or WashPost, so elites remain malnourished. IKE: “We need an alert & knowledgeable citizenry.” I’m trying. See: https://raymcgovern.com/2025/11/25/getting-ukraine-right/

Comparisons can be invidious, particularly when assessing Trump and Pezeshkian UN speeches. The all-pervasive reality is that Trump is not of sound mind & body. Any saving grace? Yes, US short of ammo; one reason he reversed his decision to attack Houthis.

Saudi Arabia in extremis. Squishy rhetorical help from US, Turkey, Pakistan. Ansar Allah (Houthis) ability to settle scores seen in recent air strike on Ryiad airport.Djibouti next? US Intel holds to the view Iran stopped work on a nuclear weapon in 2003.

Instructive & fun with Scott & Joe, who asks unanswerable questions: from AI, to Xi visit, to Kaliningrad, Arctic icebreakers. At 1:19:00, Scott tells about his experience with what he calls a “terminally corrupt CIA”; giving me opportunity to add my own. https://consortiumnews.com/2026/09/19/watch-twtw-the-ai-wars/

Fool Us Twice? Michael Isikoff & David Corn wrote Russian Roulette, featuring the salacious “golden shower” on Trump at Ritz-Carlton Moscow and bogus tale of “Russia hack of DNC“ Now unashamedly out w/new spinning books (the British say bollocks) Antidote: https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/04/ray-mcgovern-conditioning-americans-for-war-with-russia/

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the Schiller Institute’s International Peace Coalition asked for my take on that pivotal event, the tamed/timid 9/11 Commission, the Deep State coverup, terrified dramatis personae like Sec’y of Transportation “Nervous Norm,” role of Cheney.