From World BEYOND War and Center
for Citizen Initiatives:
An Online Conversation on Peace, Russia, and
the United States with Vladimir Kozin and Ray
McGovern
Start: Thursday, May 06, 2021 • 1:00 PM • Eastern
Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)
End:
Thursday, May 06, 2021 • 2:30 PM • Eastern Daylight Time
(US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)
Pressures for war are building. What can
people do for peace between Russia and the United
States? Join
in this conversation, in English, between Vladimir Kozin
and Ray
McGovern.
Vladimir P. Kozin is a Member of the
Russian Academy of the Natural Sciences and a Member of
the Russian Academy of Military Sciences, a Member,
Scientific Council, Russian National Research Institute
for Global Security, a Member, Expert Group, Foreign
Relations Committee, Russian Senate, Leading Expert,
Center of Military-Political Studies, Moscow State
Institute (University) of International Relations. He
graduated from the Moscow State Institute of
International Relations (1972), a post-graduate course
at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign
Ministry (1981) and the Royal College of Defense Studies
in London (1995). He is a holder of the Ph.D. degree and
the Academic rank of a Senior Researcher. Kozin is also
the author of 17 monographs on arms control and
strategic stability, including the most recent: “U.S.
Key Military Strategies: Their National and Global
Consequences.” Moscow. 2021. 348 PP; “Evolution of the
U.S. Strategic and Tactical Nuclear Weapons, and Their
Employment Specifics in the 21st Century. “Moscow. 2020.
1232 PP; “U.S. Military Space Policy: Key Guidelines and
Future Capabilities.”. Moscow. 2019. 312 PP;
“Perspectives of the 1987 INF Treaty (The White Book).
Moscow. 2018. 108 PP; “U.S. Tactical Nuclear Weapons:
Reduction or Modernization?” Moscow. 2017. 556 PP;
“Evolution of the U.S. Missile Defense Beyond 2040 and
Russia’s Stance.” Moscow. 2016. 446 PP.
Ray McGovern came to
Washington from his native Bronx in the early Sixties as
an Army infantry/intelligence officer and then served as
a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of
John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s
duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates
and preparing the
President’s Daily Brief,
which he briefed one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s
five most senior national security advisers from 1981 to
1985. In January 2003, Ray co-created Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose
how intelligence was being falsified to “justify” war on
Iraq.
As an act of conscience, on March 2, 2006
Ray returned the Intelligence Commendation Medallion
given him at retirement for “especially meritorious
service,” explaining, “I do not want to be associated,
however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.”
Ray’s opinion pieces have appeared in many leading
newspapers and other publications in the U.S. and
abroad. He has debated three times at the Oxford Forum.
He has appeared on The Newshour, C-Span’s Washington
Journal, CNN, BBC, a number of domestic Russian TV
channels, Aljazeera, RT, PressTV, CCTV and many other TV
& radio programs and documentaries.McGovern is a
founder of Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in
Intelligence. His B.A. and M.A. degrees – both from
Fordham University – are in Russian history, language,
and literature, with minors in theology, philosophy, and
classics. He has taught Russian as an adjunct at the
University of Virginia. Ray also holds a Certificate in
Theological Studies from Georgetown University and is a
graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced
Management Program. He is fluent in Russian, German, and
Spanish.
Moderator:
David Swanson
is an author, activist, journalist, and radio
host. He is cofounder and executive director of World
BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org.
Swanson’s books include
War Is A Lie. He blogs
at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk
Nation Radio. He is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and was
awarded the 2018 Peace Prize by the U.S. Peace Memorial
Foundation. Swanson is on the advisory boards of: Nobel
Peace Prize Watch, Veterans For Peace, Assange Defense,
BPUR, and Military Families Speak Out. He is an
associate of the Transnational Foundation.
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