Alexander Cockroach Still Using WikiLeaks’ Resident Holocaust Denier

COMMENT: It says a great deal about the sorry nature of the so-called pro­gres­sive sec­tor in this coun­try that Alexan­der Cock­burn (I call him “Cock­roach”) con­tin­ues to uti­lize Joran Jer­mas aka “Israel Shamir” the unabashed Holocaust-denier who, along with his son Johannes Wahlstrom (of a sim­i­lar polit­i­cal fab­ric), com­prise a key ele­ment of the [...]

Achmed Huber on 9/11

Analy­sis: Prob­lem not solved

COMMENT: With the death of Osama bin Laden, much has (of course) been writ­ten about the event. Ana­lyz­ing what it did or didn’t mean or what will or won’t hap­pen as a result, com­men­ta­tors have ignored some unpleas­ant truths.
A direc­tor of the Bank al-Taqwa, the late Achmed Huber func­tioned as a [...]

FTR #740 Update on the Meltdown Part 6: The Wachovia File

Wachovia deeply involved with laun­der­ing money for Sinaloa car­tel; firm’s exec­u­tives com­plicit with cover-up; World’s major finan­cial insti­tu­tions depen­dent on drug car­tels for liq­uid­ity? Drug smug­glers may have bailed out those insti­tu­tions fol­low­ing crash of ’08.

You Gotta Be F* Kidding!

COMMENT: Keep­ing up with events these days requires a strong stom­ach and nerves. The con­ser­v­a­tive watch­dog group Judi­cial Watch has noted that an ille­gal immi­grant not only obtained a pilot’s license but was allowed to open a flight school!
And THIS in the wake of 9/11! Sur­real!
For back­ground on this stun­ning devel­op­ment, lis­ten­ers are referred [...]

FTR #738 Turkish Taffy, Part II

Assur­ances to the con­trary notwith­stand­ing, Mus­lim Broth­er­hood poised to ascend in Egypt; Shed­ding the West’s old auto­crats in the Mid­dle East may ben­e­fit al-Qaeda; Obama poised for polit­i­cal destruc­tion over these events.

Is Wael Ghonim an Islamist?

COMMENT: Wael Ghonim gar­nered world-wide pub­lic­ity dur­ing the Egypt­ian upris­ing, cred­ited with doing much to gal­va­nize the oppo­si­tion to Hosni Mubarak.
A grad­u­ate of Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity in Cairo (at which Mus­lim Brotherhood-linked ele­ments embrace the eco­nomic the­o­ries of Ibn Khal­dun), Ghonim is alleged to have devel­oped one of the most pop­u­lar web­sites in the Arab World.
Is [...]

Economic “Terrorism” Contributed to/or Caused Crash of ’08?

COMMENT: A Pen­ta­gon report on the eco­nomic crash of ’08 cites the pos­si­bil­ity of eco­nomic ter­ror­ism as a con­tribut­ing cause to the melt­down of ’08. (The report does come from the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church-owned Wash­ing­ton Times, so spin must be fac­tored into the analy­sis in this par­tic­u­lar arti­cle.)
Cit­ing pos­si­ble cul­prits, the report (or the article’s reportage [...]

Taqqiya Sunrise: The Lies of Tariq Ramadan

COMMENT: A dar­ling of the so-called “pro­gres­sive sec­tor” (par­tic­u­larly in Europe), Tariq Ramadan has tipped his hand in a piece in The New York Times. Prog­nos­ti­cat­ing that the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in Egypt would emu­late the “demo­c­ra­tic” char­ac­ter of the Islamist party of Erdo­gan in Turkey, Ramadan (son of the late Mus­lim Broth­er­hod chief Said [...]

FTR #735 Bay of Pigs Meets the October Surprise: Lee Harvey Obama and the Piggy Back Coup in the Middle East

U.S. backed and helped launch the over­throw of Mubarak;Operation was begun under Bush with Obama poised to take the blame for “los­ing the Mid­dle East”; Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, Karl Rove, GOP, transna­tional cor­po­rate and Under­ground Reich ele­ments poised to take advantage.

Democracy, Muslim Brotherhood Style

COMMENT: Much has been said recently about the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s com­mit­ment to democ­racy in Egypt–this fol­low­ing the recent over­throw of Mubarak.
The valid­ity of these claims can only be weighed against the organization’s track record–the future has yet to be writ­ten.
Some mea­sure of crit­i­cal assess­ment can be gleaned from watch­ing the treat­ment accorded by Hamas soldiers [...]