Why the Neocons Hate Putin More Than They Do the Nazis in Ukraine

Tour d’Horizon by Ray with Scott Horton on Jan. 6, 2015, (40 minutes, starting at min. 2:00) Payback for Putin bailing Obama out on Syria in Sept. 2013, and preventing the wider war after which the neocons were lusting. Putin’s refusal to simply sit by after the Feb. 22, 2013 Nuland coup in Kiev; why Crimea and eastern Ukraine are strategically important to Russia; Putin’s openly stated primary concern (not a frivolous one) – i. e., the probability that U.S. missile defense system could lead Pentagon planners to believe, for the first time since the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, that the U.S. finally will have a first-strike capability. It will be even more dangerous and disruptive of the U.S.-Russia “balance of terror” – the equilibrium existing since the ABM Treaty – for Russian strategic planners to see no prudent alternative to that of resorting to the hair-trigger policy of “launch on warning.” Other front-burner issues discussed.

http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/06/10615-ray-mcgovern/

 

Ray on RT re Charlie Hebdo in Paris

On January 11 Ray was interviewed (5 min.) by RT regarding the intelligence failure accounting for the killings at Charlie Hebdo in Paris. As conspiracy theories multiply, he warns not to “misunderestimate” the fecklessness and naiveté of the clowns that have bubbled to the top of Western intelligence agencies since 9/11.

If the media do not explain the well established folly of adding still more spurious data to the haystack created by bulk electronic eavesdropping, the attention of detectives and intelligence analysts will continue to be diverted from tried and true investigative techniques. Thus, fewer needles will be uncovered under the towering haystack of “evidence;” there will be more attacks on soft targets like Charlie Hebdo; and even more money will be thrown at “collecting it all,” with still higher dividends for con-artist “intelligence” contractors already weighed down with bulging pockets.

For the interview, Ray temporarily left the Witness Against Torture activities on Jan. 11, marking the 13th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at Guantanamo.

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(Torture in the eye of the beholder: Are there two sides to every issue – even torture??! Following are two short interviews conducted by Sky News on the afternoon of December 9, 2014, the day the CIA torture report was made public.)

CIA Torture: Sky News TV (UK) interviewed Ray a few hours after the Senate Intelligence Committee released the summary report on CIA “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

December 9, 2014 (4 minutes)

On Sky News TV a few minutes later: Former CIA official Michael Scheuer takes strong issue with notion that torture was a disgrace and counterproductive; calls it “close to idiocy to argue something like that.”

December 9, 2014 (5 minutes)

 

After Christmas…

When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flocks,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among brothers and sisters,
To make music in the heart.

— Howard Thurman