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Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. He was an Army infantry/intelligence officer and then a CIA analyst for 27 years, and is now on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). His website is raymcgovern.com
Friday, December 30, 2022 (1 comments) SHARE Biden Reneged - Now Russian Army Will Talk - Antiwar.com Original
A year ago today (on Dec. 30, 2021) U.S. President Joe Biden, in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, assured him that - Ray McGovern for Antiwar.com Original
Monday, November 14, 2022 SHARE Time to Act
if the making of peace today means prison, that's where we need to be. It is time to accept our responsibility to do ALL we can to stop the violence of wars waged in our name. Now it's our turn to ponder those questions.
Friday, November 11, 2022 (1 comments) SHARE Biden Has a Date With Xi - Putin's 'Main Squeeze'
Biden might be able to appreciate that China and Russia are each fully aware that if one of them goes down, the other is next in the sights of a US military desperate to get back on the winning track after so many misadventures over the last 77 years.
Friday, October 21, 2022 (1 comments) SHARE Biden Has an 'Off-Ramp' on Ukraine
It should be no secret to Biden that there is, as Gottemoeller suggests in so many words - an off-ramp for both - a ramp with time-tested guardrails called "inspections." Trust but verify.
Monday, October 10, 2022 (2 comments) SHARE Relentless: JFK on Cuba - Putin on Ukraine
Biden did well to cite the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 and compare it to the 2022 crisis in Ukraine. The analogy is apt. Whether the President understands the important implications is not so clear.
Thursday, September 22, 2022 (1 comments) SHARE Brainwashed for War With Russia
Most Americans are just as taken in by the media as they were 20 years ago when they were told there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They simply took it on faith nor did the guilty media express remorse or a modicum of embarrassment.
Monday, September 19, 2022 (6 comments) SHARE Putin - Terrorists Near Russian Nuclear Power Plants
It is a war led by the United States against Russia which now features daily rocket attacks on more and more border towns on the Russian side.
Friday, September 16, 2022 SHARE 'Dear Friends' Xi and Putin - Project Unity
The "core interest" mutual support was given prominence in the official Chinese readout of the Putin-Xi conversation.
"President XI emphasized that China will work with Russia to extend strong mutual support on issues concerning each other's core interests.
Monday, August 15, 2022 (3 comments) SHARE Will China Mess With US Warships Headed For Taiwan Strait?
Would the Chinese expect Russia to have their back so to speak if they moved to interdict or harass US warships in the Strait? I believe they would expect that.
Thursday, July 21, 2022 (2 comments) SHARE Ukraine-US-Russia - Dangers of Tit-for-Tat
The West in impotent rage or in a desire to aggravate the situation as much as possible pumps Ukraine with more and more long range weapons.
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 (1 comments) SHARE Blinken Leading the Blind Into the Mideast Desert
The Israelis are given carte blanche - that they think they can get away with murder - should be no secret whoever happens to be president in Washington.
Friday, July 8, 2022 (1 comments) SHARE Russia Ukraine - A Taste of the Truth
Putin looks east for less threatening friends - allies even. The world has again become bipolar but now it's the lily-white West against pretty much the rest of the world.
Thursday, June 30, 2022 (2 comments) SHARE NATO Scribes vs. Russian Artillery and Rockets
Since there is zero evidence Moscow plans to attack a NATO country I would guess that Russian leaders have mixed reactions to the announcement that NATO's rapid response force will increase from 40,000 to 300,000 troops.
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 (2 comments) SHARE Lithuanians Stick New Finger in Eye of Russian Bear
The Lithuanians announced they were banning the rail transit of goods through Lithuania to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad - the ban went into effect on June 18.
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 (5 comments) SHARE Lies About Russia Still Matter - a Lot
It should go without saying that five years of the Russia-Gate plot and publicity have proven consequential - A large majority of Americans have been brainwashed to hate Russians.
Saturday, May 28, 2022 (1 comments) SHARE Scott Ritter & Ray on Ukraine, Russia, China
Bottom line: Scott predicts that the U.S. will be at war with China within six months to a year - and will lose. This could be avoided if the U.S. takes the military aspect out of the equation in confronting China and does the sensible thing in limiting the competition to the economic sphere.