Ray McGovern

Dialogue Works with host Nima Rostami Alkhorshid

LIVE at 9 am EDT Sunday Oct 25 with Matt Hoh and Ray McGovern.

1. Israel vows worst West Bank assault since 1967 War.

2. Was Attack on IDF Provoked Days Before Election?

3. Is Ukraine Really Finished?

Plus: U.S. Mid-Term Races Heat Up/Iran War to Resume After U.S. Vote?/And French Unrest Continues.

Guests: Ray McGovern, Matthew Hoh. Host: Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy Vogan.

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/24/watch-twtw-war-on-the-west-bank/

LTC Anthony Aguilar (Sam Adams awardee 2026) and I weigh new attacks by “locked & loaded” Trump & Netanyahu. More war? But serious wpns shortage! I play devil’s advocate – and perhaps also play the fool in suggesting that Trump may face him down this time.

Trump tells Ukraine not to hit Russian oil facilities; says defiant Zelensky must go; signs order exempting Russia from new sanctions; orders Musk to stop helping Ukraine attacks. Meanwhile Yemen roars and Saudis recoil.

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/17/watch-twtw-trump-v-zelensky/

Briefing Secretary of State George Shultz with assist from latest (1983) high-tech. The medium was important; so was the message.

Related: https://raymcgovern.com/2023/04/08/at-the-masters-with-a-master-george-shultz/

For the entire Consortium News: The World This Week interview: https://www.youtube.com/live/qvPtv_zof5Q?si=AE0Y0L-zllht9eNd

Has Catholic convert JD Vance found loopholes in Church doctrine on “the sanctity of life” and its stance on capital punishment? He seems OK with fire-squading Maj Hasan, but watching it live might be a sin. “I’m not going to be watching it.” Good Boy! JD.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/us/politics/vance-livestream-execution.html?campaign_id=57&emc=edit_ne_20261009&instance_id=183341&nl=the-evening&regi_id=69540701&segment_id=227891&user_id=e69a6cb2bbba5cd47ffe27ec9fb45fbe

On 20th anniversary of Wikileaks, recall its hopeful role brilliantly substituting for the drivel in government-controlled 4th Estate. If WikiLeaks were now in full swing, we could perhaps confirm or deny alarming reports that US has given Israel the green light to nuke Iran.

Putin warns of nuclear catastrophe; U.S. steams carrier to Iran; French students revolt and the barbaric U.S. death penalty. Ray McGovern, Patrick Henningsen.

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/03/watch-twtw-edge-of-the-abyss/

From inchoate to coherent: Compare Trump TIME interview https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview-transcript/ to Putin at Valdai, who emphasizes Russia’s “competitive [nuclear] advantage” able to counter threats from would-be warriors in Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/live/r7xYr-dhXq0?si=wqnNmvz8ewCvQk48

Putin on what is likely to happen if there is no human in the nuclear warning loop. https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/2105710694964306232?s=20 

Cites example of Lt Col Stanislav Petrov, the human who saved us from nuclear war in 1983. I had added Vasily Arkhipov & Melvin Goodman at min 46:30 of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxOUGHXQjo8&t=402s

I feel a particular affinity to Petrov, since we were of the same vintage. I was born seven days before WWII began, he seven days after it started.

Hat tip to Jason Ross of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)*** who wrote a timely piece on September 26 (the 43^rd anniversary of Petrov’s bold and felicitous inaction).

‘Always Under Human Control’: From Petrov to the Summit

https://eir.news/2026/09/daily-brief/daily-alert-always-under-human-control-from-petrov-to-the-summit/

*** As for the EIR, in my view it is perhaps THE most thoughtful daily publication. (And I wrote CIA’S “current intelligence analysis” for decades).

I recommend the EIR highly; might even say, “If you don’t get it, you don’t get it!”