For those who know Danny, the customary “REST in Peace” will sound odd – and unworkable. Danny, we miss you; give ‘em hell up there with Nelson and others who – like you – pursued Justice fearlessly and whom you brought to life for the rest of us!
Below is a link to an unusually informative “obit,” followed by links to two articles Danny published early last year in Consortiumnews.com:
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/20/the-iron-law-of-oligarchy-returns-2/
On March 16, RT America News asked Ray how this could be. (Segment runs from minute 4:40 to 12:15.)
Ray explains why, as soon as Brennan provided some detail on what he has in mind, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) reacted as quickly – and as strongly – as they did on March 9 (see: https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/09/us-intel-vets-oppose-brennans-cia-plan/.)
In this March 11 interview with Scott Horton of antiwar.com, Ray also touches on Germany’s opposition to strong pressure in U.S. to give arms to Ukraine and prospects for the current ceasefire. (18 minutes total: try min. 0.45 to 9:40; then 10:40 to 21:00, if you’re allergic to commercials)
http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/11/31115-ray-mcgovern/
Especially hard to distinguish between intelligence and “information warfare” on Ukraine
Live RT International interview March 11, 2015 (4 minutes)
Michael Hayden (NSA alumni call refer to him as Elmer Fudd) speaks at the once-progressive New America Foundation, March 11, 2015. (RT immediately asked Ray to comment; see above)
http://rt.com/news/239549-american-friends-unequal-hayden/
Includes John Oliver, Ray, others. (5 minutes)
We posted original Russian segment on March 9, the evening it appeared on TV1 (see below).
http://www.1tv.ru/news/world/279330
The ten-minute segment focused on familiar Western media snow-job showing Putin = Pure Evil. Camera crew had to four-wheel it to Ray through heavy snow Friday to tape interview, much of which actually survived (in Russian). Cravenly, Ray seized the opportunity to fall in tune — sort of – with the U.S. media that find all manner of reasons to paint Putin bête noire. Ray painted him bête blanche, as well, for arranging for so much snow to be dumped on Washington (Channel 1 actually left that part in).
In more serious vein, there is nothing remotely like this critique of U.S. media in U.S. media (surprise, surprise). Not even (as far as I know) by Jon Stewart — not even by democracynow, which is still using labels like “pro-Russian separatists” for those more accurately as described as anti-coup federalists.
Speaking of which, this story on page A6 of today’s Washington Post, says it all – or maybe not all. Does anyone notice anything missing?
RUSSIA
Putin had early plan to annex Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described a secret meeting with officials in February 2014 during which Russia decided it would take the Crimean Peninsula, the Black Sea region that Moscow annexed from Ukraine a month later.
In a trailer for an upcoming documentary, shown on state-owned television Sunday, Putin said he met with security officials early last year to make plans for saving Ukraine’s then-president, Viktor Yanukovych, who soon fled the country in the face of months of protests. Putin said that after the meeting he told the security chiefs that they would be “obliged to start working to return Crimea to Russia.”
He said the meeting was held Feb. 23, 2014, almost a month before a referendum in Crimea that Moscow has said was the basis for annexing the region.
— Associated Press
And so it goes.
by Melvin A. Goodman, March 9, 2015
By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), March 9, 2015