The plight of Gazans/Palestinians, the US embassy move to Jerusalem, Netanyahu regime

Ray McGovern served as an Army intelligence officer and a CIA analyst for 27 years under 7 presidential administrations, from John F. Kennedy to George H. W. Bush. Among his duties was preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which was a one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s most senior national security advisers.  He was responsible for the analysis of Soviet intelligence regarding Vietnam and served as the Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Western Europe. Since retiring, Ray has been a vocal peace activist and journalist and helped create Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose the way intelligence was falsified to “justify” war on Iraq and the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. He also works with Tell the Word, an ecumenical Catholic publishing house.   Ray’s opinion pieces appear in many leading news sources here and abroad.  He holds degrees in theology and philosophy from Fordham University, an MA in Russian History, is a graduate from Harvard Business School and has a certificate in theology from Georgetown University.   His website is RayMcGovern.com  and more of his writings can be found on ConsortiumNews.com

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Deborah Kopald is an environmental consultant to physicians and attorneys on environmental related illnesses and has developed and overseen for the passage of legislative initiatives to protect the public from on cell tower radiation and wireless technologies. She is regarded as a lay-expert in non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, and is an advisor on telecommunication policies particularly with Wi-Fi technology and the environmental and health risks these technologies pose on citizens. Deborah is a Review Editor in the Radiation and Health section of the journal Reviews on Environmental Health and holds a degree from Harvard in economic politics and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.