Another CNN “Bombshell” Report Bombs: Ray interviewed on the latest CNN Russia-gate lie; namely, that Trump Sr. knew beforehand about the (in)famous 06/09/16 “Trump Tower meeting” with Trump Jr., Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, et al.  Source Lanny Davis now says he “misspoke,” but CNN has refused to retract.

August 28, 2018 (10 minutes)
Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald is dodging darts from Russia-gate aficionados at The New Yorker (see:
And small wonder! Here’s Greenwald’s latest embarrassing expose of Establishment media malpractice:

Reich Recommends Re-set to ’Nullify’ Trump and all his works and all his pomps! No half-measures. Great idea; now Mueller has to come up with the goods.

By Ray McGovern, August 26, 2018

Robert Reich, who until recently had been a member of the Adult Democrats, has given Robert Mueller his marching orders.  Reich writes in
https://www.opednews.com/articles/It-s-Not-Enough-to-Impeach-by-Robert-B-Reich-Impeach-Trump-180825-620.html
“The only way I see the end of Trump is if there’s overwhelming evidence he rigged the 2016 election. In which case impeachment isn’t an adequate remedy. His presidency should be annulled. … Suppose, just suppose, Robert Mueller finds overwhelming and indisputable evidence that Trump conspired with Putin to rig the 2016 election, and the rigging determined the election’s outcome.”

Only then could we see an early end to Trump, Reich suggests.  Hope springs eternal.  But Peter Strzok concluded: “There’s no big there there.” Never mind.  We are pinning our hopes on you, Bob.  Please.  It is getting embarrassing. Hurry up and find some “there” for god’s sake.

Mueller has been at it twice as long as Strzok was. And, as head of the FBI for 12 years, Mueller knows where to look. How much more time does Reich think Mueller should be given?

Much at Stake

The stakes are VERY high for many of Mueller’s own best-friends-forever. And a close look at his checkered legal past shows that his NY Times-bestowed reputation as “universally respected” cannot bear even cursory scrutiny.

Will Mueller be tempted to have Brennanites (themselves nervously hoping they can avoid indictment) manufacture the kind of “overwhelming and indisputable evidence” that Reich et al. lust after? This would NOT be without precedent.

Recall that Brennan’s mentor, the disgraced George Tenet, told Colin Powell that the “evidence” given him to justify the war of aggression on Iraq was indisputable. Speaking to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003, Powell chose similar adjectives: “irrefutable” and “undeniable.” The media loved it to death — literally.

Again, the stakes could hardly be higher for Mueller and his friends. Patrick Lawrence makes a scary point in suggesting that Russiagate may have already reached the point where it is “too big to fail.” See:
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/08/13/too-big-to-fail-russia-gate-one-year-after-vips-showed-a-leak-not-a-hack/

Besides, what’s to lose? Who’s afraid of congressional “oversight” committees? … or an anemic media? If you cannot be held accountable even for torture, well….

It may turn out that Mueller will finally come up with evidence that is [please choose between the following adjectives: overwhelming, indisputable, irrefutable, undeniable] and that the Establishment media will be just as unconscionably fawning, deceitful, and ecstatic as they were on the day Powell lied to the UN.  The media seem to have forgotten how to kick the tires.

Of supreme importance here is the fact that basically the same people are running the Establishment media as in February 2003. Did they learn their lesson? They did indeed — but the wrong lesson.

Proof? Poof!

So Mueller could expect virtually unanimous support from the Brennanite-milk-fed-media, should they happen to come upon some yellow-cake-uranium-type forgery — oops, not forgery, I mean “proof” — that Trump is, indeed, in Putin’s pocket.  Then poof! Trump and all his works and all his pomps are “null.”  Folks like Reich will be delighted; Americans will have been deceived once again — as with WMD. And the Deep State will have won another round.

Look for something like this in Coming Attractions for the weeks ahead.

Notice: As we continue, as usual, to post Ray’s articles, speeches, videos, and radio interviews here at raymcgovern.com, please know that Ray has begun to tweet more often, and his Quick Tweets (QT) will not be duplicated here on the website. For those not yet following Ray on Twitter, his handle is: @raymcgovern.

Here’s a tweet from early this morning — launching the new QT approach:

 

Amy Goodman is good on ICE fascists, but naive on CIA’s John Brennan. Why does her headline today parrot the frivolous lede in Washington Post? Fact that Brennan did all he could, legally & illegally, to elect Mrs. Clinton should subject him to close scrutiny, not give him a pass.

Miracle and Myth: We Have Not Yet Blown Up Our Planet = Miracle; Our Luck Will Hold Indefinitely = Myth

A talk by Ray McGovern at Ground Zero, Pudget Sound, next to the Trident Submarine Base
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfMj1aflgPU&feature=youtu.be
August 5, 2018 (talk is 49:30 minutes; Q and A runs from min. 50:45 to 1:32:00)
Among the topics covered in Ray’s talk …
Tribute to the King’s Bay Plowshares and to “Arch” — the late Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen, supporter/benefactor of Ground Zero.
Ernie Pyle finds deep racism in Pacific theater.
Two who helped prevent the world from being destroyed: Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov; Melvin A. Goodman
 
“The Doomsday Machine:” A MOST IMPORTANT BOOK
Autumn 1983: from KAL-007 to “Able Archer” — a very close brush with extinguishing the planet
Seeking Justice with little prospect of immediate results
Standing up to oppression: from Dan Berrigan to Helen.

… and in the Q & A:

Why Ray was “escorted” out of the Gina Haspel nomination hearing
Should we fear Trump meeting with Putin alone?
Iran: decades ago and more recent history
Comparing a thoroughbred National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to a neutered/mongrel, evidence-free “Assessment” by “handpicked” analysts from only three agencies
Israel’s predominant role in U.S. Middle East policy making
 
WHAT ONE NEEDS TO REMEMBER IN ALL THIS:  As former FBI Director James Comey himself has admitted: “I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president.” Comey and co-conspirators, who decided — in that “environment” — to play fast and loose with the Constitution and the law, were supremely confident they would not only keep their jobs, but also receive plaudits, not indictments.  Unless one understands and remembers this, it is understandably difficult to believe that the very top U.S. law enforcement officials did what documentary evidence has shown they did.
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Ray had sent the following paragraphs ahead to Ground Zero to help with publicity and to give the organizers some feel for the issues he planned to address (most of which he did address):

It is a myth that attacking Japanese cities with atomic bombs was needed to end WWII (though that’s what most of us were told in school). Six of the United States’ seven five-star officers who received their final star in World War II — Generals MacArthur, Eisenhower, and Arnold and Admirals Leahy, King, and Nimitz — rejected the idea that nuclear bombs were needed to end the war. Sadly, though, there is little evidence that they pressed their case strongly with then-President Truman before the fact.

So why did Truman do it? How much had to do with the fact that he and Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes were incorrigible bigots? Does white supremacy still play a role today?

In his masterful book, The Doomsday Machine, Daniel Ellsberg offers this challenge: “Whether humans can eliminate the danger of near-term extinction [by nukes] remains to be seen. I choose to act as if that is still possible.”

It IS possible. All we need are dashes of hope, flashes of ingenuity, and renewed commitment to get our act together. Annie Dillard’s dictum is encouraging — if challenging: “There is only us; there never has been any other.”

There ARE enough of us; we ARE the ones we’ve been waiting for.

And what an honor “being with those, whether in kayak or on shore, active in the shadow of the Tridents; with folks paying the same ‘rent’ as author/poet Alice Walker (a shipmate on the “US Boat to Gaza” in 2011).  Alice famously wrote: “Activism is my rent for living on this planet.”

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The talk was recorded at the annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki commemoration at the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action next to the Trident submarine base in Poulsbo, WA. The series of events included nonviolent protest actions. On August 4, a flotilla of kayaks and small boats in the waters of Hood Canal, outside the perimeter of Naval Base Kitsap Bangor, protested nuclear weapons; and on August 6, twelve people were arrested in for nonviolent civil resistance during an early morning vigil at the entrance of the base.

Thanks to the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
Recorded on Aug 5, 2018; published on Aug 11, 2018