By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
(a pre-brief prior to NATO summit in Warsaw, July 8-9)
By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
(a pre-brief prior to NATO summit in Warsaw, July 8-9)
On Loud & Clear July 6, Brian Becker is joined for a lively discussion by Partnership for Civil Justice Fund executive director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and former CIA analyst turned political activist Ray McGovern asking why Hillary Clinton will not face prosecution over her e-mail scandal.
http://sputniknews.com/us/20160707/1042555193/fbi-change-rules-clinton.html
(minutes 1 to 17:15)
By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
Citizen activists, medical doctors, and former U.S. officials in the American citizens delegation, led by Sharon Tennison, President of the Center for Citizen Initiatives have not let themselves be intimidated by the anti-Russian rhetoric across the ocean. They are here in Crimea, seeing with their own eyes how the situation here is very different from the way it has been portrayed mainstream media in the West. On June 22, they joined Crimeans in commemorating the 75th anniversary of Hitler’s attack on Russia.
After a day of speeches and meetings with various officials and citizens in Yalta, a “Swim for Peace and Friendship” was organized by citizens delegation member Elizabeth Murray in a symbolic attempt to refresh relations between Russia and the U.S.A. Several Soviet Army and Navy veterans of World War II took part in the swim, as well as earlier, in the more somber ceremonies.
(video clip = 3:23 minutes)
Here is the lead-in:
Ohne die US-Militärbasis Ramstein wäre der Drohnenkrieg »gegen den Terror«, dem Unschuldige zum Opfer fallen, nicht möglich. Gespräch mit Ray McGovern
[Without the U.S. Military Base in Ramstein the drone war “against terror” and the killing of innocents not possible. A conversation with Ray McGovern.]
https://www.jungewelt.de/2016/06-20/012.php
Addressing the military in the audience, this time Ray spoke mostly in English, reminding them that each is individually responsible NOT to obey an illegal order – like to drone-kill other human beings without due process.
published June 15, 2016
(10.5 minutes – Rainer Braun, historian and long-time German peace movement leader, used the first 2.5 minutes to introduce Ray.)
The rubric was: STOPP RAMSTEIN – Menschenkette 2016 – STOP RAMSTEIN – HUMAN-CHAIN 2016).
The role played by Ramstein is critical. Without the U.S. Satellite Relay Station there, those “piloting” computers in Las Vega and elsewhere would be unable to push a button and drone-kill people in Middle East and Africa in less than 3 seconds.
The 5.5-minute speech is in German. If you’d like an English translation, please request one via the email address on this website.
The interview was posted in German on June 11; in English on June 12:
English: http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/48/48504/1.html
German: http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/48/48472/1.html
One of main issues addressed:
“The key is to lie first:” What does the shoot-down of Malaysian Airlines MH17 on July 14, 2014 have in common with the downing of Korean Airlines KAL-007 by the Soviets on Sept. 1, 1983? Answer: A made-in-heaven (so to speak) opportunity to use highly suspect “evidence” (re MH17), and deliberately falsified evidence (re KAL-007), to blacken the Russians.
In the latter case, Secretary John Kerry’s immediate accusations that Russia and/or “pro-Russian separatists” downed MH17 have worked like a charm. It took little over a week for the Europeans to impose sanctions on Russia (which remain in effect). And Western propaganda blaming the Russians for killing the 298 people aboard MH17 helped greatly to reinforce five months of charges that Russian had “invaded” Ukraine (with hardly a mention of the Western coup in Kiev on Feb. 22, 2014).
Cui bono? The answer to that is easy. Profiting from this kind of escalating tension are those whom Pope Francis correctly called “the blood-drenched arms traders.” Ike was right.