Ray talk at Schiller Institute, NYC, June 15, 2014
(20 min — from 2:55 to 22:55)
How do you corrupt an agency like NSA? You give them malleable liars like Gen. Hayden and Gen. Alexander, and then get admirals to cover up for them.
Ray puts poor excuses for NSA “leadership” in context at Left Forum, NYC, May 31, 2014 (14 min)
Ray interviewed on AwakeRadio by Catherine Watters, who heard Ray speak at the Left Forum, May 31, in NYC. Topics: Hillary Clinton; 9/11; There is a “Too Late;” What to do now, before “Too Late”
On June 10, Watters found herself standing in line at Barnes & Noble, Union Square, facing the hard choice as to whether Hillary Clinton’s “Hard Choices” was worth spending good money on. She (Catherine, not Hillary) talked to Ray on cell and ended up inviting him to be interviewed that evening.
Ray’s segment of the interview begins at minute 1:31:50. The first 23 min. focuses on what happened to Ray when he witnessed nonviolently three years ago at a Hillary Clinton speech, turning his back on her as she spoke passionately in defense of dissidents. For those who missed the democracynow 5-min report on this, please see:
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/18/ex_cia_analyst_ray_mcgovern_beaten
The rest of the discursive interview (1:54:55 – 2:10:25) deals initially with 9/11, then moves to issues like what to do about the situation of tone-deaf fellow citizens (all too reminiscent of Germany of the Thirties) too busy/distracted to notice (or care about) what is being done to them. We ran out of time before I could quote Mario Savio at Berkeley 50 years ago:
“There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part; and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop, And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you’re free the machine will be prevented from working at all.”
Ray interviewed on RT’s “Breaking the Set”
Discussed June 8 attack on Karachi airport; how defeating terrorism is like defeating malaria. The recipe in vogue? Drone ‘em; create new terrorists; market more weapons and sprinkle more money back on the Hill.
Cui bono? The arms merchants, the “1 percent,” and the generals. Cui malo? The Bergdahls of our Army, who are initially motivated by desire to help the Afghans; and then, being there, conclude that helping Afghans is not really a what the U.S. forces were there for. Also, out-of-touch pundits on Bergdahl.
Voice of Russia speaks with Ray on Ukraine, Russia, China, and the U.S. (as reflected in the benighted view Obama expressed at West Point on May 28)
“America has rarely been stronger relative to the rest of the world. Those who argue otherwise – who suggest that America is in decline or has seen its global leadership slip away – are either misreading history or engaged in partisan politics.” Got that?
Ray’s portion of this May 29 interview runs 19 minutes, from min. 3:50 to min 23:00