Fordham
Worker Bees vs. Drones at Fordham, Nick Mottern and Ray, 6/3/12 (NEW)
http://warisacrime.org/content/worker-bees-vs-drones-fordham
The Moral Challenge of ‘Kill Lists’, Ray on Obama/Brennan 'Kill List', 5/30/12
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/30/the-moral-challenge-of-kill-lists/
White House “Assassination Czar” Confronted at Fordham, 5/28/12
By Ayca Bahce
http://www.opednews.com/articles/White-House-Assassination-by-Ayca-Bahce-120528-761.html
Two graduates with high honors, Michael Pappas and Scott McDonald, orchestrated a number of actions to witness to the various indignities at Fordham, including — but not limited to — the honoring of Brennan. Pappas drafted the following article:
Counter-Terrorism Adviser Non-Transparent at Fordham, 5/29/12
By Michael Pappas
http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Counter-Terrorism-Adviser-by-Michael-Pappas-120529-472.html
Honoring a ‘Terror War’ Architect - or - Gory Glory at Fordham, 5/12/12
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/12/honoring-a-terror-war-architect/
Stop the Drone Week at Fordham
http://warisacrime.org/content/stop-drone-war-weekend-fordham
Drone Attacks and the Brennan Doctrine, by Naureen Shah, The Guardian, 5/2/12
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/02/unmanned-drones-usa
John Brennan Should Tell the Whole Truth About the Drone Strikes AND “Signature” Strikes, 5/4/12
By Robert Naiman
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/04-2
Drone-Bred Terrorists, a Bonanza for Arms Profiteers & Careerist Generals, 5/6/12
Press TV interview with Ray, 4 minutes
http://www.presstv.com/usdetail/239937.html
John Brennan Befuddled By the ‘Why’ Behind Terrorism, 5/2/12
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/02/not-explaining-the-why-of-terrorism/
Rendition, Torture & Rattlesnakes or Every Day is Good Friday Somewhere
Render to Caesar, Extraordinarily, April 6, 2012
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/04/06/render-to-caesar-extraordinarily/
The record of Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan, invited by Fordham University’s trustees to give the commencement address on May 19, is discussed in the NEW article (posted above) about torture and rattlesnakes. For more detail on the controversy over Brennan’s selection, please see “Furor at Fordham” under our Web site’s “Fordham” Tab.
Furor at Fordham
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/03/22/mcgovern-protests-brennans-speech/
John Brennan (of kidnapping, torture, black prisons, drone killings fame) is invited to give Fordham Commencement address, May 19, 2012:
In response to an invitation late last year to give a talk at his alma mater, Fordham University, Ray spoke to a class on March 6 and did a evening event in Keating lecture hall on March 7. While there Ray encountered the latest manifestation of what one Jesuit friend has called the "prestige virus." Jesuit university administrators and trustees seem particularly susceptible to this virus, against which Jesus of Nazareth and Ignatius of Loyola tried to provide the necessary inoculation.
Fordham University's newspaper, The Fordham Ram, waxed eloquent about Brennan:
"One of my most fond memories at Fordham was last Spring Weekend when, late that Sunday night, we heard the news that U.S. Special Forces had killed Osama bin Laden," Bryan Matis, GSB '12, said. "Hundreds of students gathered at the victory bell and later the 9/11 memorial in celebration, prayer and reflection. Our campus community really came together in solidarity that night. To know that a member of the FCRH [Fordham College at Rose Hill] class of 1977 had played a key role in that important piece of Fordham and American history made me proud to be a Ram. Mr. Brennan is a proud Fordham alum who works closely with the President to keep this country safe, and I'm excited to welcome him back to campus this May as our commencement speaker."
The good news is that many of Bryan Matis's fellow students look askance at assassination (even when "we" do it), and do not warm to the notion of feting a felon at Fordham. At the same time — and sadly — a huge number of students haven't a clue as to why, for example, Dr. King called the U.S. A. the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world," much less why the administration would consider it fitting to lionize Fordham alumni "distinguished" for their important role in such purveying.
The campus is divided. The Vice President for Student Affairs has long since imposed draconian measures to thwart student activities (protests, for example) — never mind the First Amendment. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Last October 7, when socially conscious students wanted simply to mark the 10th anniversary of the U.S. attack on Afghanistan, here's how they were suppressed.
I am told that it was for similar ostensibly bureaucratic reasons that the Progressive Students for Justice (PSJ) was not given permission to announce or advertise my March 7 lecture at Fordham's Keating Hall — and, thus, why we wound up with only four students, one faculty member, and my brother in the audience. O Tempora, O Mores!
Out of concern not to bore readers with what can be regarded as "inside baseball" at Fordham, Ray has created a discrete Tab, "Fordham," and we shall post there a handful of Fordham-related pieces — from the recent past, as well. Here's one example:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/032810a.html
"Welcoming a Top CIA Official [a Fordham Alumnus] to Fordham (Michael Sulick, then-director of all covert operations)
By Debra Sweet, March 28, 2010
“Sounds of Dissent” WZBC FM Boston, April 7, 2012 (22 minutes)
Ray interviewed on Zelikow memo on torture; rendition; role of senior CIA official John Brennan (speaker at Fordham commencement, May 19); and description of the Speaking Truth to Power function of Tell the Word, an outreach of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington.
http://archive.org/details/RayMcgovernOnSuppressedDissentingTortureMemoByZelikowCounselToCondi
The Latest: Student Petitions
Student Petition Protests Commencement Speaker (John O. Brennan)
By Emily Arata, The Fordham Ram, March 28, 2012
John Brennan’s Selection as Fordham’s 167th Commencement Speaker: Stand Against This Outrage
Initiated by Fordham students Michael Pappas and Scott McDonald
http://www.change.org/petitions/john-brennan-s-selection-as-fordham-s-167th-commencement-speaker-stand-against-this-outrage
We ask that Fordham University choose an alternative commencement speaker
Initiated by students at Fordham campus at Lincoln Center
http://www.change.org/petitions/fordham-university-students-we-ask-that-fordham-university-choose-an-alternative-commencement-speaker
OTHER ARTICLES SPECIFIC TO FORDHAM
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/03/22/mcgovern-protests-brennans-speech/
Fordham Fetes a Felon
Ray McGovern, March 22, 2012
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/032810a.html
Welcoming a Top CIA Official at Fordham
By Debra Sweet, March 28, 2010
http://consortiumnews.com/2011/06/05/gen-keane-keen-on-iran-attack/
Gen. Keane Keen on Iran Attack
Ray McGovern, June 5, 2011
“General: ‘Use drones to kill’ the Taliban in Pakistan
Gen. Jack Keane fears loss of Afghanistan progress
By Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times
http://consortiumnews.com/2011/10/06/the-moral-imperative-of-activism/
The Moral Imperative of Activism, by Ray McGovern
Ray quotes Dan Berrigan’s reflection on the risks and ridicule, after using homemade napalm to burn draft cards at Catonsville, Maryland, May 1968:
“The act was let go, its truth and goodness were entrusted to the four winds. Indeed, good consequences were of small matter to me, compared with the integrity of the action, the need responded to, the spirits lifted. …”
MORE GENERIC CATHOLIC FAITH TESTIMONY, OR NOT
http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2011/012411b.html
Excusing Torture at Justice,’ by Ray McGovern
Assistant Attorney General, a Jesuit product, on torture
January 24, 2011
http://warisacrime.org/print/44892
Christians Wink at Torture
July 31, 2009
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042108a.html
What About the War Benedict?
Ray McGovern, April 21, 2008
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/10/6967
Waterboarding for God, With Decency and Compassion
Ray McGovern, February 10, 2008
And two from Ethics Professor Dan Maguire of Marquette [Jesuit] University in Milwaukee
The Gospel according to Paul Ryan, July 14, 2011
http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/guest_bloggers/4868/
Dan Maguire, Professor of Ethics, Marquette University, December 15, 2009 - Opportunity Lost in Olso: “Just War” Theory
