RAMSEY CLARK – A LIFE OF INDOMITABLE COURAGE – TALKS WITH JEFF J. BROWN ON CHINA RISING RADIO SINOLAND 170120
Dispatch from Beijing
With Jeff J. Brown
Main image: A recent photo of the wise, serene and wizened Ramsey Clark. (Image by Veterans Today)
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Growing up in Oklahoma, we had a macabre idiom. Anytime someone got some money, like pay day, or unexpectedly, like being repaid a debt, we would say, “Well, I guess I can cut my throat and die rich”! For Jeff J. Brown, author and analyst on China Rising Radio Sinoland, interviewing Mr. Ramsey Clark is like journalistically becoming a millionaire, but spare the knife please. As Ramsey will tell you, there’s too much work to do, too many battles to fight for social justice for all the world’s people, not for Westerners who are living off the immoral lucre of imperial exploitation.
Former uber-insider in Washington in the 1960s’ Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) administration, he could have spent the rest of his life rich, fat and superficially happy, writing CIA-fed editorials in the New York Times, on Meet the Press and CNN, fawning over America’s Worldwide Wehrmacht. But he didn’t. No, something clicked inside and he took the hard path of attacking Western empire and fighting the Princes of Power in the media and courthouses, relentlessly and fearlessly. For 45 years hence, Ramsey has been inflicting serious pain on the West’s elite owners – the oil bankers, the military-industrial- and CIA-MI6 complexes – so much so, that he has to live 24-7 with security personnel guarding him and his life. Our Western governments use murder, extortion, blackmail and bribery as everyday tools of policy and law, along with genocide, extermination, war and exploitation, like plants and animals breathe air.
Jeff will not take time to repeat Wikipedia facts here, although he does review with Ramsey a synopsis of his illustrious life. During the interview, Ramsey talks about his three and half months in Civil War China, in the summer of 1948, and his positive impressions of the Chinese people. They talk about the murders of JFK, RFK, MLK and his friendship with Mr. William Pepper, and that he has read all of Pepper’s books, which clearly name names of those in the US government who helped kill these three leaders, making these acts known false flags. Jeff reviews with Ramsey the revenge of the West’s governments on the people of Malaysia, for convicting Netanyahu, Bush, Blair et al., of genocide and crimes against humanity, by downing three national flagship airliners, in the improbable span of nine months in 2014: more evil.
Jeff also asks Ramsey if he supports communism, through his relationship with the Worker’s World Party, a question Jeff had not heard Ramsey get asked in other venues. Listen to his answer and see for yourself if Ramsey is a communist.
The photo above shows the wizened face of a man who has stared down the face of global evil and fought it tooth and nail, writing books, legally representing victims of Western empire, establishing organizations and confronting Western world leaders in newspapers, conferences and symposiums. Who you see is a revolutionary standard bearer of global social justice and peace, while exposing the West’s long history and its daily, ongoing racism, false flags, genocide, exploitation, war, colonialism and imperial tyranny on every inhabited continent on Earth.
At the wise old age of 89, Ramsey hopes that everyone who listens to this interview will find inspiration in his journey, to take his lofty banner of resistance and courage into the 21st century, to fight the good fight for global social justice, equality and peace, while exposing our many leaders who support and nurture the evils of global empire.
May there be a million, no, make that billion Ramsey Clarks in the world.
Please share Ramsey’s interview widely and often in the future. Happy New Year of the Fire Rooster 2017, from China Rising Radio Sinoland.
PS: Jeff owes an incalculable debt of thanks to Mr. Jay Janson, who organized this interview with Ramsey Clark in New York City. Listen to Jay’s own incredible life story here: http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2016/12/24/music-and-revolution-the-amazing-life-story-of-jay-janson-on-china-rising-radio-sinoland-161224/
Where to become an agent for truth and justice:
http://www.answercoalition.org/
Ramsey’s books:
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-This-Time-U-S-Crimes/dp/1560250712/
https://www.amazon.com/Challenge-Genocide-Let-Iraq-Live/dp/0965691640/
More on Ramsey:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ramsey-Clark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_Clark
https://www.c-span.org/video/?317441-1/ramsey-clark-oral-history-interivew
Jeff J. Brown—TGP’s Beijing correspondent— is the author of 44 Days (2013), Reflections in Sinoland – Musings and Anecdotes from the Belly of the New Century Beast (summer 2015), and Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015). He is currently writing an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, due out in 2016. In addition, a new anthology on China, China Rising, Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations, is also scheduled for publication this summer. Jeff is commissioned to write monthly articles for The Saker and The Greanville Post, touching on all things China, and the international political & cultural scene
In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm Literary Festival, the Capital M Literary Festival, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at international schools in Beijing and Tianjin.
Jeff grew up in the heartland of the United States, Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma State University. He went to Brazil while in graduate school at Purdue University, to seek his fortune, which whet his appetite for traveling the globe. This helped inspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980 and he lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, China and Europe for the next 21 years. All the while, he mastered Portuguese, Arabic, French and Mandarin, while traveling to over 85 countries. He then returned to America for nine years, whereupon he moved back to China in 2010. He currently lives in Beijing with his wife, where he writes, while being a school teacher in an international school. Jeff is a dual national French-American.
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ADDENDUM
One more reason to despise mainstream liberals. And why they can never be trusted. Here’s one of their organs, Salon, doing a hatchet job on Ramsey Clark, using the skills of one Ian Williams, who does his best to apologize for NATO crimes. Williams begins his scalping job on Ramsey Clark with this with this choice paras:
Ramsey Clark, the war criminal’s best friend
http://www.salon.com/1999/06/21/clark/
The former U.S. attorney general has become the tool of left-wing cultists who defend Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Rwandan torturers as anti-imperialist heroes.
TOPICS: NEWS
In the most morbidly literal way, NATO forces are “sniffing out” more mass graves than alliance spokesman Jamie Shea ever suspected. Dog-eaten sticks of bone poke from putrescent pits on television screens. So it is not surprising that on July 31 New York will see the opening of a commission of inquiry for an international war crimes tribunal. What may surprise some is that its target is NATO’s war crimes.
Those who know him will be less surprised that the inspiration for this circus is former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, whom one long-standing colleague described as “a good man gone ga-ga — at least 25 years ago.” Many liberals and leftists cut Clark a considerable degree of slack. For a start he is almost the only person the American left has had in high public office since World War II, even if it was a retrospective success, since his long march leftward only began afterward. His views as the former attorney general are listened to with a respect that would be accorded to few others with such eccentric opinions. As a revered spokesman of the left, he is a perfect symbol for its near-impotence in American politics today… Etc, etc.
If you like, and have a high tolerance for this kind of establishment propaganda, read the rest here.
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