The tag 'BCCI' is associated with 67 posts.

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 exposed [...]

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.

FTR #683 Interview (#3) with Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald

Afghan gov­ern­ment offi­cials over­see mas­sive Afghan heroin traf­fic; the BCCI at the cen­ter of decades of intel­li­gence com­mu­nity drug traf­fick­ing in that area; U.S. may col­lapse like ancient Rome.

FTR #666 Badjacketing Obama, Part 4

Hav­ing left office with­out inves­ti­ga­tion of GOP/Muslim Brotherhood/al Qaeda polit­i­cal nexus, Bush/Cheney leave Obama to deal with those very forces.

FTR #663 Badjacketing Obama, Part III

Mus­lim Broth­er­hood staffs “mod­er­ate” Mus­lim out­reach to Obama; GOP pre­dicts terrorism.

Recommended Reading

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