(4 minutes)
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30483010
Shocked Over Senate’s Gitmo Rhetoric
Helen Schietinger of Witness Against Torture asks Sen. McCain to reflect on whether the hate-speech of his colleagues earn them the epithet “lowlife scum.”
When Silencing Dissent Isn’t News
by Robert Parry
Veteran investigative journalist looks at Ray’s arrest and Oct. 30/31 jailing overnight in the “The Tombs” of NY Criminal Court with some informed commentary re what silence of the “mainstream media” tells us about what has become of the Fourth Estate.
Video Shows NYPD Arresting Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern When He Tried to Attend Petraeus Event last October
by Kevin Gosztola
Meanwhile, back in NY Criminal Court on Feb. 4, the Manhattan DA offered Ray an ACD (Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal), meaning the charges against him of illegal trespass and resisting arrest will disappear after six months, IF Ray behaves as a “law-abiding citizen.” Ably advised by Moira Meltzer-Cohen, his pro bono attorney, Ray accepted the offer.
The Judge then asked him if he understood that he had to be a “law-abiding citizen” for the next six months. The defendant overcame the temptation to comment at some length and replied simply, “I do.” (On learning this, Rita labeled it Ray’s shortest speech ever.) The Judge said nothing about the First Amendment, so Ray is assuming it is still in effect.
After his short “speech,” Ray was interviewed for two minutes in front of the Criminal Court by RT:
Israel “mowing the lawn” in Gaza: Elizabeth Murray interview with Turkish TV (6 and a half minutes)
While in Berlin recently for the Sam Adams Award presentation to Bill Binney, Murray, who was Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Middle East before retiring from the CIA, addressed the unspeakable callousness of Israel and its U.S. supporters toward Palestinians.
http://www.ahaber.com.tr/webtv/turkiye/elizabeth-murray-erdogan-filistinin-sesi-oldu
The interview alludes to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s outburst at Davos in January 2009, when pro-Israel pundit David Ignatius tried (in vain) to keep Erdogan from directly blasting then-Israeli President Shimon Peres over Israeli actions in Gaza.
For a 3-and-a-half-minute video clip of that revealing contretemps, see:
Erdogan Slams Peres in Davos; “Thou Shalt Not Kill,” & Walks Off Stage
Jan. 29, 2009, ten days after the end of the late 2008-early 2009 Israeli attacks on Gaza.
Respected German journalist reveals he planted CIA articles under his own name. (Will be interesting to see how “mainstream media” try to suppress or spin this one.)
Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, the editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, for decades one of Germany’s top “mainstream” newspapers, admits he accepted stories written by the CIA and published them under his own name. Ulfkotte said the aim of much of the deception was to drive nations toward war.
He sees that happening again with widespread yellow journalism exaggerating the threat from Russia. So he decided – despite all manner of threats against him – to blow the whistle and expose the widely accepted practice of a corrupt “journalists” beating the drums for war.
Luckily, this could never happen in the United States! Or…..?
RT has “tiny, tiny audience in U.S.” Victoria Nuland to Brookings
In the last year RT’s audience in seven of the largest U.S. cities has doubled; almost three million tune in each week; and RT’s presence on YouTube is very large. John Kerry decried RT’s “bullhorn;” and Hillary Clinton spoke of watching RT and finding it “quite instructive.”
Hard to figure how that squares with “tiny, tiny?” “Tiny, tiny,” rather, applies to the amount of credibility to be given Victoria Nuland — who, together with Kerry and Clinton, are shown in the 3-minute RT video included in: http://www.activistpost.com/2015/01/state-department-discusses-banning.html
Honoring NSA’s William Binney and Ambassador Robert White
In the shadow of Berlin’s Brandenburger Tor, Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence on January 22 presented its annual award to NSA’s former Technical Director Bill Binney and its first posthumous award to former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Robert White – for demonstrating personally what integrity looks like.
RT/Deutsch’s Jasmin Kosubek interviews Ray in Berlin for “Der Fehlende Part” (The Missing Part) program on Jan. 22, 2015 a few hours before the Sam Adams Associates presented this year’s award to former NSA Technical Director, Bill Binney
Why Does the U.S. continue to incite rather than restrain its puppets in Ukraine? What is preventing Angela Merkel her government from emerging from their 70-year adolescence? And why has NSA’s bulk electronic surveillance not been able to prevent terrorist attacks; why is it actually increasing the danger from terrorists?
Ray’s comments on Ukraine come between minute 5:30 & 11:35; his remarks on NSA’s hare-brained “collect-it-all” approach to data, and that evening’s Sam Adams award ceremony, are seen/heard between minute 15:00 & 19:45.
Most of the exchange is dubbed into German, but much can be heard also in English.