by Robert Parry, July 19, 2014
U.S. Welched on Promise NATO Would Not “Leapfrog” Over Germany
The Ukraine crisis owes its roots to a deal America made and broke with the late Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
Baltimore Sun op-ed, July 16, 2014
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-shevardnadze-20140715,0,3983982.story
David Kerans who writes for “Voice of Russia,” compared notes with Ray on July 8 before posting this article, which begins: “The wedge between Ukraine and Russia over how to handle unrest in the eastern regions of Ukraine is on the verge of producing a serious wedge between the US and Western Europe. The immediate catalyst for both of these wedges is, of course, the escalating aggression Ukraine’s government is visiting on its own population in the eastern regions of the country.”
Subject: “Ukraine: End of the Beginning,” July 8, 2014 (25 min.)
The bill, co-sponsored by more than 20 Republican Senators, was introduced on May 1 and was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. It is cast as reaction to events in Ukraine and lists a variety of measures to punish Russia and others, including providing lethal military aid for Kiev. The Russian titles appearing on the screen can be translated as “Divorced from Reality” and “Revolution by Order.”
Unanticipated bonus: after the interview, Ray’s bumper sticker – “God Bless the Rest of the World Too” caught the eye of the interviewer, Nina Vishneva. She told the photographer to capture the bumper sticker – and there it is at minute 2:21. Who knows? Maybe that short aphorism, the thought it conveys, and perhaps even the sticker itself will catch on elsewhere.
Signs of rigor mortis include NYT suppression before 2004 election of James Risen’s findings re gross violation of Fourth Amendment by NSA; Michael Hayden’s “loose construction” of the Fourth Amendment (w/video clip); cover-up by former NSA director Bobby Ray Inman; Ray getting beat up a few yards from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (w/video clip). Ray addressed several of these topics at a dinner talk to the Sarah McClendon Group at the National Press Club, July 2, 2014.
Andrew Kreig, one of the participants, took some notes and wrote up Ray’s remarks for his blog: “Justice Integrity Project,” July 7, 2014
Actions in Ukraine Erode Guarantees of 1994 Budapest Agreement
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