Let’s begin with a syllogism:Major Premise: Biden Does Not Want War With ChinaMinor Premise: He is Commander-in-ChiefConclusion: Biden can order a Navy carrier battlegroup to change directionIn other words, a solution to the still up-in-the-air (so to speak) visit of...
Interview with Ray McGovern: Update on the Week in Ukraine
Journalist Jeff J. Brown and Ray interviewees July 24, 2022 I pointed to three very important developments over recent days:1 – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian openly declared support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, casting the blame on...
Ray McGovern: Media Miss Major Moves on Russia-Ukraine
Corporate media are ignoring the stark implications of Russia’s stated intention to take control of more Ukrainian territory than just Donetsk and Luhansk. I discussed this on The Critical Hour yesterday and supplement those thoughts in the paragraphs below.On...
James Clapper Gets a Mulligan at Carnegie
The Carnegie Endowment has made a stab at rehabbing James Clapper, whose imagery analysis unit lied us into the war on Iraq. For Clapper’s second try, Carnegie used the title (now get this) “Getting the Intel Right With James Clapper, July 11, 2022,”On Nov. 13,...
Ray McGovern on Blinken, Borrell; Blindfolds of the Effete Elite
Ray interviewed on The Critical Hour July 11, 2022, 13 minutesThe questions posed led me to comment candidly on the regrettable state of Western statesmen like EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Yes, the same Blinken who, in...
Ray McGovern on Russia-Ukraine: A Taste of the Truth (video)
TIME OUT! Let’s think this through. We are told that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked.” But was it?How can we estimate how far west Russia’s forces will advance, without knowing why Russia invaded Ukraine in the first place?...
Ray McGovern on Medvedev/Putin: Highly Unusual Threats to NATO
An interview with The Critical Hour yesterday provided an opportunity to add some important NATO-related reporting that has been pretty much overlooked in the corporate media. Some of that detail, with my comments, are offered below.As NATO leaders (aka ‘The 30...
Ray McGovern on Ukraine: Some Lemmings Wear Wooden Shoes; and Factoring in China
On The Critical Hour, I draw wider implications from Dutch PM plea for lethal aid to defeat Russia, and elaborate further below:Does it make sense for NATO members to believe that they can make “Russia lose the war” in Ukraine by providing enough...
Gina Haspel Watched the Waterboarding at CIA ‘Black Site’
It still makes me sick to my stomach – this time the sworn testimony of CIA contract psychologist/torturer James Mitchell that Gina Haspel was watching as he and psychologist/torturer colleague John Bruce Jessen waterboarded Saudi captive Ab al-Rahim al-Nashiri...
Ray McGovern: Outright Flummoxed ‘Splaining US-China Policy
I flunked miserably yesterday when asked to explain what this current generation’s “Best and Brightest” think they are doing in messing with the One-China policy that has kept the peace for 50 years.We led off with Democratic Sen. Tammy...


