Ray McGovern

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.

At-a-distance psychological assessments of US presidents, as well as foreign leaders, help; Israel may have video of Epstein/Trump with trafficked young girls; Trump faculties diminishing as setbacks mount. Putin cautious, aware of this combustible mixture

A Jewish professor and an Irishman walk into a bar one Sunday. Not a joke; it’s for real, with some light moments. Insights from Rick Wolff; some from me. I won’t play spoiler. Consortium News Live can enliven and enlighten if you’re awake Sundays at 9:00.

Coleen Rowley & I were guests with Larry Johnson on 25th anniversary of 9/11. As bloodlust grew and 9/11 became pretext for “preemptive” attack on Iraq, Coleen warned FBI chief Mueller that new “deadly force” policy would migrate home.