Ray Interviewed by Rob Kall

On Sept. 7, 2018 Ray gave two relaxed video interviews to Rob Kall, founder of the excellent website opednews.com. The first is here:
https://youtu.be/F71mtPKbYwo
(60 minutes)

Among the issues discussed:

— Impeachment: why Conyers wouldn’t; why we should; the wisdom of the Founders

— Syria: Trump’s neocons keep the pot boiling for Israel

— Putin: Would someone please tell me who is in charge in Washington?

— KEY FACTOR; the media never worse; sadly, including “progressive” media

— Ser Cristiano hoy en día significa no temer, no callar por miedo — Romero. Trying to follow the example of a murdered Palestinian Jew named Issa (in Arabic)

 
— Dan Berrigan on the “secondary” importance of “results.”
 
— What moves one to risk arrest, getting beaten up? What was the first time like?

— The key advantage enjoyed by people with gray hair; the moral imperative, hoy en dia, to put that advantage into play

— Shameless plug for raymcgovern.com: If you don’t get it, you don’t get it! :))

Part 2 (the 2nd interview) coming tomorrow.

FUKUS & Turkey are now al-qa’ida’s allies. (editorial)

Syria: Col. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) and former Defense Intelligence Officer for Near East, forecasts: “In the end, the Russians and Syrians will say to hell with this and launch the offensive [into Idlib].”
 
FUKUS & Turkey are now al-qa’ida’s allies. (editorial)
Sept. 14, 2018
“FUKUS equals France, the UK and the US.  It appears that the policy of this tri-partite re-birth of the Entente Cordiale has changed with regard to Syria since the middle of August.  Before that change FUKUS seemed to have acknowledged and conceded the inevitability of an R+6 offensive that would re-capture all of Idlib Province in NW Syria.  That seems changed.
“The province is now occupied and dominated by the jihadi fighters of hayat tahrir al-sham (HTS).  This is the cover name of al-qa’ida in Syria.  You may probably remember them as the folks who attacked the US on 9/11.  If you do,That would be a correct memory.  These jihadis are quite different from the ISIS (daesh) fighters of the Islamic State.  The US, Syria, Iraq, France and the UK have successfully fought ISIS all over Syria and Iraq when FUKUS was not busy Accidental-Bombing (neologism) the Syrian Army.
“FUKUS and the Lord of the White House  (LOTWH) have traditionally made a clear distinction between ISIS and the other jihadi groups like HTS.  Over the years of the Syrian Civil War FUKUS has insisted, and still does, that HTS is somehow a “freedom fighter” group along with the rag-tag Free Syrian Army unicorns.  That was certainly the view of the late Saint John of Arizona.  In the aftermath of his passing and the subsequent media hysteria, the LOTWH seems to have accepted the wisdom of St. John in perceiving the “true” nature of HTS.
“In  other words the US seems now to be fully “on board” as the protector of HTS’s redoubt in Idlib Province.  The French, still deep in the embrace of Macronisme and the Brits with their desire to continue to be “players” are also “on board”
“In pursuit of these newly adopted neocon policy ambitions for al-qa’ida in Syria, Ambassadors Jeffrey and Haley have threatened Syria, Iran and Russia with hellfire and damnation if they dare to try to Make Syria Whole Again  (MSWA – need a vowel in there somehow) by launching the offensive so fully prepared at this date.
“Meanwhile the Sultan Tayyip and his crew at the summit of Turkworld are doing their best to outplay everyone in an effort to effectively annex as much of NW Syria as possible.  To that end Tayyip has warned the Syrians against trying to re-capture these lands of the Fertile Crescent, hoping perhaps to see Turkish taught there as the mandatory medium of communication in the manner of German in Alsace-Lorraine from 1871-1918.  Turkey is reinforcing its “Observation Posts” all around the perimeter of Idlib Province whilst the White Helmets Film Troupe (WHFT) have a number of possible new Oscar winner “documentaries” in production at their FUKUS sponsored jisr al-shughur facility.
“My Fearless Forecast – In the end, the Russians and Syrians will say to hell with this and launch the offensive. pl”

Will Mueller Opt For ’Non-existent’ Intelligence?

By Ray McGovern

The phone was fully charged, and yet … Opps! During a radio interview on Sept. 6, Ray’s cellphone went mysteriously dead after ten minutes, precisely at minute 16:44, a second after he questioned whether Robert Mueller deserves the sainthood bestowed on him in Establishment media. The radio studio could find no technical reason to account for why the line dropped abruptly immediately after Ray words that Mueller’s “reputation for honesty does not withstand close scrutiny.”
https://sputniknews.com/radio_the_critical_hour/201809071067821350-op-ed-reveals-trump-resistance/
(Ray’s interview segment runs from minute 6:05 to its premature end at 16:44.)

 
Interviewer Wilmer Leon adroitly chooses not to “reason why” the abrupt cutoff, and transitions smoothly — well, sort of smoothly — to the next segment.
 
“Reason Why?” The following might provide a hint.  Before the line dropped, Ray had been speculating that — rather than face the embarrassment of coming up with zero evidence of Trump-Russia collusion — Mueller might accept and promote the kind of “non-existent” evidence touted by miscreants like John Brennan and James Clapper to justify attacking Iraq.
 
For those of you who do not know, Mueller himself was an important part of all that.  As FBI director at the time, he dutifully parroted that faux-intelligence, and the war-profiteering Establishment gladly drank the Kool Aid.
 
Mueller had been warned.  Three weeks after Powell lied about operational ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, and three weeks before the attack on Iraq, then-FBI Special Agent and Minneapolis Division Counsel Coleen Rowley sent a Memorandum to Mueller, later published in the NY Times.https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/politics/full-text-of-fbi-agents-letter-to-director-mueller.html
 
Rowley asked directly:

“What is the FBI’s evidence with respect to a connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq? Polls show that Americans are completely confused about who was responsible for the suicidal attacks on 9-11 with many blaming Iraq. And it is clear that this impression has been fostered by many in the Administration. … If the FBI does have independent data verifying such a connection, it would seem such information should be shared, at least internally within the FBI.”

 

Mueller did not reply.  Did he know the evidence was “non-existent?”  Hey, it was about starting a war of aggression and Muller was head of the FBI.  Did he not ask to see the intelligence?
 
We are talking out-and-out fraud: not only “intelligence” that was “mis-overestimated,” so to speak, but also some that was, well, poof! — created into existence, like the evidence used by Colin Powell at the UN on Feb. 5, 2003 to claim the existence of a “sinister nexus” between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.

Ray is hardly the the only one to label some of the “evidence” used to “justify” war on Iraq as “non-existent.”  In fact, “non-existent” is one of the adjectives the Senate Intelligence Committee chair used on June 5, 2008, when he announced the bipartisan findiings of the committee’s five-year investigation into pre-Iraq-war intelligence:

“In making the case for war, the Administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent.  As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed.”
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/senate-intelligence-committee-unveils-final-phase-ii-reports-prewar-iraq-intelligence

The Senate’s findings were published ten years ago and got little play in corporate media.  Those with little or no memory of the Senate investigation may wish to click on the link and skim through its main conclusions, as briefly stated in the press release.

 
Perhaps most important, no one was held accountable for the pre-Iraq-war fraud
 
So what’s to lose?

After what the UN has twice called Julian Assange’s “arbitrary detention” became solitary confinement with Julian rendered incommunicado on March 28, “Unity4J” was born — described initially as a “Non-Violent Digital Army for Julian.” Since then Online Solidarity Vigils have been held almost monthly.  Here are links to the full interview cuts from the latest vigil.  There were more than 70,000 live viewers.

Highlighted are a few that may be of particular interest — see 13, 14, AND 19, for example.  Also, see note attached to Craig Murray’s, who has become the Robert Parry of the UK — in addition to his other incredible creds, so to speak.
1. Intro: Suzie Dawson interviewing Joe Lauria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wo0LvD8EU
2. Joe Lauria interviewing Margaret Kimberley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY4BTscaUWg
3. Margaret Kimberley interviewing Nat Parry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06o3TczlNog
4. Nat Parry interviewing Daniel McAdams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hme_2jW2Js
** 5. Daniel McAdams interviewing Ray McGovern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AihXtsbBGJ4
** 6. Ray McGovern interviewing Graham Elwood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIgZnIEVIx4
7. Graham Elwood interviewing Alastair Thompson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idWhldJtV4k
8. Alastair Thompson interviewing Catherine Austin Fitts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tz-Qi1nwGU
9. Catherine Austin Fitts interviewing Mehdi Taileb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Qf0xU7i9Y
10. Mehdi Taileb interviewing Mark Sleboda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ8r6CIr014
11. Mark Sleboda interviewing Cathy Vogan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVh0g14fiu0
12. Cathy Vogan interviewing Lee Stranahan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmK7RGO-FE0
** 13. Lee Stranahan interviewing Craig Murray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9yRakHQLJs
For updates, see Craig Murray’s blog — a recent posting addressing the latest drivel from Establishment London, for example, begins with:
“Russia has developed an astonishing new technology enabling its secret agents to occupy precisely the same space at precisely the same time….”
** 14. Suzie Dawson interviewing Bill Binney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cREvDEVy_ak
15. Suzie Dawson interviewing Niko House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRUwC7OxNrI
16. Joe Lauria interviewing George Szamuely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ0SMph0B-4
17. George Szamuely interviewing Don DeBar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsqRgBNbPoM
18. Don DeBar interviewing Ann Garrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyjVGryc69U
** 19. Joe Lauria interviewing Daniel Ellsberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOMkGIlns6o

Bill Binney Explains How We Know “Guccifer 2.0” Is a Fraud

He displays forensic data behind the conclusion that the DNC was not hacked by Russia.  Bill refers to reporting that emails between former DNC worker Seth Rich and WikiLeaks were found on Rich’s computer. Expect Bill, a former Technical Director of NSA, to be labeled, again, a “conspiracy theorist.”  There may well be a conspiracy; but it ain’t Bill.
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/forensic-data-proves-dnc-was-not-hacked-by-russia/
Interview was on July 17 (17 minutes)

We are told Seth Rich’s computer is in good hands — the FBI. Right!  One wag has suggested that Comey gave the computer to Crowdstrike to work on.

 
Where is Rich’s computer; and why all the secrecy … and why the exceedingly deliberate speed?

Ray was interviewed on 8/30/18 by KPFA’s Dennis Bernstein after Greg Palast and before David Rovics, who ends the hour singing a blistering “tribute” to John McCain.

https://kpfa.org/episode/flashpoints-august-30-2018/

Ray talks (minutes 23-50) about former CIA Director John Brennan and his Deep State partners in crime, and speculates on what may lie ahead for those — like Brennan and James Comey — who played fast and loose with the law and Constitution because they were sure Mrs. Clinton would win.  It requires no analytical leap to suggest that the liberties they took with the law were part of the “insurance policy” that the FBI’s Peter Strzok referred to in this August 15, 2016 text message to his paramour Lisa Page::

Strzok: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

Don’t miss David Rovics’s lyrics; Greg Palast is also typically good on local election shenanigans — as in the state of Georgia. Tongue in cheek, Greg says it must have been the Russians who gave Georgia Republicans the idea of closing so many polling places in predominantly black precincts.

To the editor, Washington Post

Finding himself in agreement with something Washington Post commentator Michael Gerson (!) wrote about an all-male clergy, Ray wrote a letter to the editor, reminiscing about the ill-fated efforts of Catholics in the most “progressive” parish in the Archdiocese of Washington to curb the marginalization of women.
The injustice of sexism is what prompted Ray’s first sustained (every Sunday for four and a half years during the 90s) standing in witness against the sexism on display in the liturgy itself.  “The Standing” did raise consciousness, but also engendered a lot of fear that the Cardinal “would appoint Attila the Hun” as pastor to show who was boss.
Ray’s letter was rejected, but for those with interest, here is what Ray emailed to the Post:
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August 28, 2018
To the Editor, Washington Post:

Michael Gerson (“Two Paths for the Catholic Church,” Aug. 28) says an all-male clergy cannot police itself and asks, “Can you imagine a meeting including parish mothers and women leaders in which the protection of a predator priest was proposed?” Excellent point, Michael.

Gerson accuses Catholics of “insufficient outrage.” He is in very good company.  Thomas Aquinas condemned timid obeisance in the face of injustice as “unreasoned patience;” what was required, said Aquinas, was “the virtue of anger” (Summa Theologica, Question 158). [Hat tip to the Jesuits who drilled that into me.]

For three decades I was a member of Jesuit-run Holy Trinity parish in Georgetown. During the 90s I was part of its parishioner-initiated Working Groups on Sexism. We worked hard at it but, sadly, “unreasoned patience” prevailed. Jim Naughton, a former Washington Post reporter, told the story in his interesting book “Catholics in Crisis: An American Parish Fights for Its Soul.” — a story sadder still amid the heinous clerical predations revealed in recent weeks.

Ray McGovern
Holy Trinity Church, former parishioner
FULL DISCLOSURE:  On August 25, 1996, the Washington Post Magazine ran a cover story, titled “A House Divided,” about The Standing at Holy Trinity. The text of Jim Naughton’s first chapter was posted on your website (see link below).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1996/08/25/a-house-divided/e2d49459-f3ba-4d5a-8060-992c1cf5de82/?utm_term=.140592d58a51