By Coleen Rowley, March 18, 2018
US Veterans spend tense day with Ahed Tamimi and extended family in Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh; experience first hand the brutality Palestinians endure at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers
Proud Nabi Saleh teens shouted “We won,” after powerful anti-Wall demo. Here Ray welcomes them back to the Tamimi house.
http://thepeacereport.com/one-
published March 13, 2018, (38 minutes)
New documentary created by Chris Smiley: From the series ‘Veterans For Palestine.’ See more from this docu-series here: http://bit.ly/2FLP6Lp
Ray was a member of this small Veterans For Peace delegation to Palestine in Feb./March 2017.
UK Radio Hosts Ray on front-burner Issues: poisoning of Sergei Skripal; new low for the UK & U.S. media; House Intel. Committee — the major premise for “Russia-gate” (that Putin favored Trump) is assumption lacking evidence; FBI is still “investigating,” with all deliberate speed, Seth Rich murder; text exchanges between FBI’s Dumb-Strzok and mistress Lisa Page; Gina Haspel, torturer-in-chief of the first CIA “black site,” who ordered videos of the torture sessions destroyed, now picked to be CIA director; and, finally, Sen. Richard Burr, head of Intel. Committee, who ordered all copies of the explosive Senate investigation of CIA torture released in Dec. 2014 returned to him.
Ides of March 2018 — 56 minutes (excluding break between minutes 25:35 and 27:25)
Ray welcomed the chance to address more immediate issues, against the backdrop of his more historically oriented recent discussions with Scott Horton.
Wide-ranging Interviews of Ray By Scott Horton on Russia
Ray gave two long interviews to Scott Horton recently: the first on Feb. 28, the day before Putin’s state-of-the-nation speech; the second on March 6. Both range widely but one overarching theme is Russia.
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The second interview (March 6):
https://www.
(minutes 2:40 to 32:30; 34:35 to 1:22:20)
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The interview on Feb. 28:
https://www.
(minutes 2:35 to 1:29:30)
House Intelligence Committee Rejects the Basic Underpinnings of Russia-gate
By Ray McGovern, March 14, 2018
Expect a Schiff-wreck in the coming days.
The First Woman Picked to Lead CIA, But Not the First War Criminal
March 13, 2018 (six minutes)
Ray was interviewed Tuesday about Gina Haspel, just nominated to be CIA director. He found it bizarre to discuss the exploits of the current CIA deputy director/war criminal Haspel, who in 2002 ran the secret prison where “terrorist suspect,” Abu Zubaydah, was waterboarded 83 times.
Such crimes were documented by a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation, based on original CIA cables and other documents — a four year-long effort, a redacted Executive Summary of which was released in Dec. 2014. It revealed a number of heinous torture techniques used on kidnapped “detainees” and — equally important — gave the lie to claims by top CIA officials that useful intelligence was acquired by the torture.
As soon as Sen. Richard Burr (R, NC) became chair of the committee in Jan. 2015, he ordered all copies of the Senate investigation report returned to the committee. Ms. Haspel, who has demonstrated a penchant for destroying evidence, can be counted on to deep-six whatever copies may linger at the CIA, unless someone tucks one under his/her shirt and absconds with it. Haspel played a role in ordering the destruction of videotapes of the waterboarding and other torture she supervised at her secret little “dark-side” facility in Thailand, despite being specifically told by the White House Counsel to preserve them.
NBC’s Clueless Boost for Putin
By Ray McGovern, March 12, 2018
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/03/12/nbcs-clueless-boost-for-putin/
Could it have been deliberate? Could NBC shudder at the possibility of hearing Putin one day say, a la Nixon, “You won’t have Putin to kick around any more.”
Gang of Four: Senators Call for Tillerson to Enter into Arms Control Talks with the Kremlin
By Gil Doctorow and Ray McGovern, March 10, 2018
Gang of Four: Senators Call for Tillerson to Enter into Arms Control Talks with the Kremlin
Look for news of this important initiative in the NY Times or Washington Post, or on TV. But don’t waste a lot of time. It seems that none of the “mainstream” media have yet gotten the necessary guidance from the “blood-soaked arms merchants” (Pope Francis) — from the war profiteers that own much of the media. So there have been two days of wall-to-wall zero coverage.
Neither should you look for any news or commentary on this key development on the Sunday TV talk shows tomorrow. It is doubtful that the TV moguls will be able to figure out whom to invite, in the light of this initiative, to keep demonizing Putin and — together with Putin — those sensible souls who believe the U.S. should deal on arms control with Russia before it is too late.
Until the media figures all this out, they will probably be turning to the likes of the petulant, supercilious Megyn Kelly or the “keep-us-safe-from-Putin,” scary Rachel Maddow?
How Washington Provoked—and Perhaps Lost—a New Nuclear-Arms Race
By Professor Stephen F. Cohen, longtime historian of Russia
https://www.thenation.com/
Putin declares, in his March 1 speech, that the long US attempt to gain nuclear superiority over Russia has failed and hopes Washington will “listen now.”
Ray has learned tons from Professor Cohen and considers it an honor to inhabit the same category of “untouchable,” as far as the know-nothing, Putin-bashing media are concerned.
Quick, someone call Megyn Kelly and suggest she have someone “read her out of one of Steve’s books,” as NY City natives used to say.