RT asked Ray to comment on today’s LA Times report regarding CIA-supported rebels clashing with Pentagon-backed militias in northern Syria near the border with Turkey.

And just when it appeared the Syrian adventure could not get any more embarrassing.  Giving some perspective, the RT segment begins with CENTCOM commander Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III’s explaining how the Army invested $500,000 to get “four or five” Syrian good-guys “still in the fight.”
(The video is 5 minutes)

Holy Thursday 2016 in Palestine: Two Palestinians Executed With Striking Nonchalance. One Israeli soldier shoots already wounded Palestinian point-blank in the head.  All in a day’s work: but this time, all captured on camera, so Netanyahu will have to find a way to dance around it – probably by giving the perp an IDF “desk job.”  Stay tuned.

March 24, 2016 video shows total lack of concern on part of Israeli soldiers and other bystanders.  Not one Good Samaritan is in evidence – either before or after the Israeli soldier administers the coup de-grace. Only evident concern is to steer traffic around the streaming blood.  Impression?  That a wounded dog would have gotten more sympathy/attention.
U.S. tax money enables such inhuman behavior. U.S. taxpayers cannot also be bystanders.
“In a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”  Albert Camus
“A ‘NO’ uttered from deepest conviction is better than a ‘yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, avoid trouble.”  Mahatma Gandhi.
“When injustice takes place, few are guilty, but all are responsible.  Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself.”  Rabbi Abraham Heschel

John Pilger & Ray interviewed on KPFA radio Flashpoints by Dennis Bernstein

John addresses recent signs of the inexorable U.S search abroad for ‘monsters to destroy,’ including the Chinese dragon, as well as increased precariousness in the nuclear relationship between the U.S. and Russia.  Ray offers his familiar, no-brainer explanation as to why people become terrorists (why ‘they hate us’) and why the polls purport to show that torture “works,” when it demonstrably doesn’t (unless it is false information you wish to coerce a prisoner to “confess” to.  Ray draws on his most recent article for consortiumnews (see below):
John starts out; Ray’s segment is from minute 41 to 58.

Ray interviewed briefly about U.S. government attempts to profile workers who just might pose an “insider threat” and require extra surveillance, lest they blow the whistle on government criminality

A transparent attempt to head off a Public Enemy (aka whistleblower) Number Four, after Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, and Ed Snowden.  Looking down the list of suspicious characteristics, Ray does confess to having a weakness for an often-unwelcome “ideology” – namely, telling the truth, no matter what.  Will there be enough extra money and trained government snoopers to include “outsider threats” in their job jar?
March 21 (six and a half minutes)

On March 16, 2016, Ray gave a tour d’horizon-type interview to antiwar.com’s Scott Horton, covering some main topical problems and also looking ahead to key issues like how the trilateral relationship among the U.S., Russia, and China is likely to evolve and impact the future

Russia-U.S. cooperation on Syria is discussed at some length, as well as the stakes for Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Israel – still the biggest flies in the Syrian ointment.

Interview spanned several segments.  To avoid advertisements: begin at minute 1:00; skip from 21:15 to 22:25; skip from 32:00 to 33:15; end at 41:00

http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2016/03/16/31616-ray-mcgovern/

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