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The tag 'BCCI' is associated with 70 posts.

Fee, Fi . . . Ho, Hum: The Usual Suspect Elements Come into Focus in (“How Many Lies Can You Allow Yourself to Believe before You Belong to the Lie?”)

Numer­ous ele­ments have come into focus in con­nec­tion with the inves­ti­ga­tion of the Boston bomb­ing. They include a sub­sidiary of Dick Cheney’s Hal­libur­ton. In addi­tion, the mosque they attended and at which they may have been rad­i­cal­ized is part of the milieu shep­herded by Grover Norquist.


A Lie Can Run a Marathon Before the Truth Can Put Its Running Shoes on: (“Truther” Consequences)

The news cycle in this coun­try is dom­i­nated by cov­er­age of the Boston bomb­ings. This is pre­dictable. So is the ten­dency toward sim­plis­tic and/or one-dimensional analy­sis. Gen­er­ally, we’re hear­ing: It was the “gov­ern­ment,” “home-grown domes­tic (i.e. right-wing, Aryan types) ter­ror­ists,” or “Islamic ter­ror­ists.” As this post indi­cates, the divi­sions among these are not nearly so simple.


Reflections on the Petraeus Affair

As was the case with Bill Clin­ton, no sooner does Obama win reelec­tion than his admin­is­tra­tion is involved in an expand­ing sex scan­dal, which may well under­mine his Mid­dle East­ern pol­icy, as well as hand­ing polit­i­cal to the GOP. Replac­ing David Petraeus–temporarily and per­haps permanently–is Michael J. Morell, who briefed George W.Bush on intel­li­gence mat­ters. Morell was with Bush on the morn­ing of 9/11.


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.


FTR #725 Leak This! WikiSpooks and the World of Stieg Larsson

Wik­iLeaks inex­tri­ca­bly linked with intel­li­gence ser­vices around the world; A founder of the group says they act like “spies”; Wik­iLeaks’ Swedish base of oper­a­tions over­laps the Swedish fas­cist polit­i­cal milieu por­trayed in the Stieg Lars­son books and movies.


Family of Secrets

The Bush Dynasty, the Pow­er­ful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influ­ence Means for America


Guess Who Oversaw BCCI’s Afairs for the Treasury Department under Reagan/Bush?

Com­ment: The bril­liant new book Fam­ily of Secrets by Russ Baker ana­lyzes the BCCI imbroglio at great length. (It was the BCCI nexus that spawned the busi­ness rela­tion­ship between the Bush and Bin Laden fam­i­lies.) Of course, the BCCI/James R. Bath con­cate­na­tion lies at the foun­da­tion of the inves­ti­ga­tion into the terror-funding appa­ra­tus that was [...]


Dubai, or Not Dubai?

Com­ment: The recent media flap about the assas­si­na­tion of a Hamas offi­cial in Dubai has obscured much about the polit­i­cal and eco­nomic real­ity of that small king­dom. Recently a threat to default and col­lapse the global finan­cial sys­tem (until its res­cue by a fel­low Emi­rate), that coun­try was one of the con­duits for money to [...]


FTR #687 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Saudi money power helps them evade 9/11 guilt; inves­ti­ga­tion reveal­ing con­nec­tion between Bush admin­is­tra­tion and ter­ror financ­ing moves for­ward; CIA’s [ex] Scheuer’s trea­so­nous remarks; Syr­ian nuke inves­ti­ga­tion continues.


FTR #685 Interview [#4] with Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

Fun­da­men­tal changes are needed in U.S. Afghan pol­icy, includ­ing mod­er­a­tion of the use of fire­power, elim­i­na­tion of cor­rup­tion, alter­ing of pol­icy toward opium pro­duc­tion and rede­f­i­n­i­tion of Amer­i­can society.