https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/us/politics/trump-affidavit-intelligence-spies.html
They don’t know the “precise content” of the Trump classified documents but wear out the subjunctive mood in “explaining” how their compromise MIGHT account for a loss of Russian & Chinese sources.
The US is naively insisting that “nothing has changed” post-Pelosi. “In coming weeks” US warships will sail thru the Taiwan Strait, underscoring international waterway status to the “inevitable annoyance of China.” Someone please tell Biden that “Annoyance” may include shots across the bow…
The overwrought fear of China and Russia is sold to a Western public through manipulation of the facts.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs, August 23, 2022
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/23/wests-dangerously-simple-minded-narrative-about-russia-and-china
…for more war, cold or hot, vs the hated Russians. A new diehard group of fanciful, incompetent ideologues say if Ukraine falls, so will the Baltics and Poland; use Giuliani’s dictum “lots of theories, no evidence.”
An interview that is ageing well; posted on August 8, 2022; but conducted on May 23, 2022
Truth in Advertising: Feel free to watch Ray at the beginning of this interview, BUT by far the most interesting remarks come from interviewer Michael Wong who has a lot more than just book knowledge on China.
Michael is, in effect, interviewed by Ray starting at about minute 45. So, you may wish to fast-forward to that point – particularly if you hear Ray repeating things you may have heard from him.
Michael Wong’s comments turn out to be unusually prescient in the light of the current crisis over Taiwan. Bear in mind that this interview was conducted on May 23, 2022. Ray has learned a lot from Michael Wong.
By Eva Bartlett, August 8, 2022
An independent, uncompromised correspondent atwork
https://thescrum.substack.com/p/eva-bartlett-reports-from-donetsk
By Ray McGovern, August 4, 2022
After watching my recent interview on SKYNEWS ( See: https://raymcgovern.com/2022/08/03/rays-likely-last-as-in-final-appearance-on-skynews-australia/ ) an Australian friend sent me this MUST-WATCH, 5-miute video.
You hear the Australian commentator say, “I can’t bite my tongue any longer.”
Well, good for him; and good for SKYNEWS/Australia for allowing him to un-bite his tongue. So many tongues keep getting bitten in Western corporate media outlets that it seems something of a miracle that some commentators do not drown on their own blood.
Also Making Sense, Dmitri Trenin
REQUIRED READING: Dmitri Trenin: Russia cannot afford to lose in Ukraine, but neither can the US – is there a non-nuclear way out of the deadlock? An escalation can lead to a bigger and more dangerous conflict. Are Moscow and Washington ready to take the risk?
By Dmitri Trenin, member of the Russian International Affairs Council
https://www.rt.com/russia/560055-escalation-conflict-ukraine-nato/
Granted, Trenin is a Russian, but in his case the de rigueur sneer/snub reflexively applied is entirely inappropriate. He is also the former Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and former research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Sane Russian specialists in the U.S. (granted, an endangered species) give Trenin the very respectful hearing he has earned over decades.
Making Nonsense: Today’s Blather in the NYT
The BS never stops. Ukraine Builds a Case That Killing of P.O.W.s Was a Russian War Crime
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/world/europe/russia-ukraine-prisoners-killed.html
Well, good luck, Kyiv, building that case. Here the Times is adhering to its long tradition of publishing all the news that’s fit to print to get the U.S. into war. The particular drivel from today, however, should earn Times reporters Michael Schwirtz, Christiaan Triebert, Kamila Hrabchuk and Stanislav Kozliuk a ‘Pulitzer Prize for yellow journalism’.
Their article is transparent – not worth the time to debunk in any detail. But just assume that, for some reason, the Russians wanted to kill valuable Ukrainian P.O.W.s who are providing first-hand intelligence on the infamous pro-Nazi Azov troops – first-hand because they are from those same units. Why would the Russians want to kill them? OK, assuming that, for some reason, they did want to kill them, are there not easier ways to do away with P.O.W.s in your custody than to launch a precision missile strike?
Ray interviewed on The Critical Hour
By Ray McGovern, August 2, 2022
The interview came just a couple of hours after Nancy Pelosi’s plane landed in Taiwan, so we focused on how top European officials are likely to react to what China – and not only China – considers a grave, gratuitous provocation.
With NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg having recently announced a “fundamental shift” east to include China as a “systemic challenge”, and with the proxy war in Ukraine going south, will the leaders of Europe follow the likes of Jake Sullivan and Antony Blinken and, lemming-like, jump off the cliff – alienating China as well as Russia?
We noted that Russia today was swift in supporting China’s stand on the Pelosi visit – as swift as China was in supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. Would sensible leaders in Europe really want to take on both Russia AND China just because the naive twins, Sullivan and Blinken, think it’s a good idea?
By Ray McGovern, August 2, 2022 (8 minutes)
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/biden-didnt-want-to-look-soft-cancelling-pelosis-taiwan-visit/video/321b18165bbda7b76c99eda42253d731
It was worth it. “Biden didn’t want to look ‘soft’ cancelling Pelosi’s Taiwan visit.”
“Former CIA officer Ray McGovern says US President Joe Biden could have prevented US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan but didn’t want to “seem soft” on China with mid-term elections coming up.
“He said Ms Pelosi’s visit is a ‘provocation’.
“’If the Chinese reply, as I think they will, with some rather strong military measures, will that be unprovoked? Sorry, it will be provoked,’ he told Sky News Australia.”
