FTR #716 Interview (#6) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Decades of Bush fam­ily intrigue cul­mi­nates in Dubya’s eight year deba­cle; dis­as­ters over­tak­ing the US are the inevitable out­growth of Bush’s cor­po­ratist phi­los­o­phy and cor­rupt admin­is­tra­tive practice.

FTR #715 Interview (#5) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Poppy Bush tabbed by Ger­ald Ford to head CIA as Kennedy assas­si­na­tion inves­ti­ga­tions pro­ceed; Dick Cheney, Don­ald Rums­feld, Karl Rove and Paul Wol­fowitz launch their careers cour­tesy of Poppy and Ger­ald Ford in same time period.

Trouble on Oiled Waters, Pt. 2

Com­ment: BP has bought the Google and Yahoo search words rel­e­vant to research­ing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mex­ico, with the intent of redi­rect­ing searches for the pur­poses of dam­age con­trol.
“BP buys Google, Yahoo Search Words to Keep Peo­ple away from Real News on Gulf Oil Spill Disaster“by Maryann Tobin; examiner.com;  6/6/2010.
Excerpt: In [...]

“Family of Secrets”: A VERY Important New Book

Com­ment: Jour­nal­ist Russ Baker has writ­ten a land­mark vol­ume about the deep polit­i­cal his­tory of the Bush fam­ily, George H.W. (“Poppy”) Bush in par­tic­u­lar. Fam­ily of Secrets (Blooms­bury Press [SC]; Copy­right 2009 by Russ Baker) is a must for seri­ous stu­dents of the real­i­ties of con­tem­po­rary power structure.

Painstak­ingly trac­ing evi­den­tiary trib­u­taries  run­ning through decades of [...]

FTR #663 Badjacketing Obama, Part III

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

Spitzer’s mouthpiece has his own secrets to hide

by Peter LanceRAW STORY
As the sex scan­dal hur­ri­cane engulfed Eliott Spitzer last week, one of his clos­est advi­sors at the eye of the storm was Diet­rich “Dieter” Snell. An ex U.S. Attor­ney from the same office con­duct­ing the pros­ti­tu­tion probe, Snell is now defend­ing Spitzer in the “Troop­er­gate” scan­dal and report­edly rak­ing in hun­dreds of [...]

Interview: Cindy Sheehan

by Liam Stack in CairoAl Jazeera
Cindy Shee­han, an Amer­i­can activist who was nick­named the “Peace Mom” by the media for her crit­i­cism of the Iraq War, retreated from her pub­lic cam­paigns in 2007.
The death of her son Casey, a US sol­dier, in a Bagh­dad bat­tle in 2005 had trans­formed Shee­han into a pub­lic fig­ure in the US.
But [...]

Malta ‘is Blackwater’s operational base’ – MEP report

by Noel Gri­maThe [Malta] Inde­pen­dent Online
A Euro­pean Par­lia­ment work­ing doc­u­ment drawn up by Gio­vanni Clau­dio Fava has claimed “Malta is the oper­a­tional base of Black­wa­ter, the organ­iser of pri­vate mil­i­tary mili­tia which are increas­ingly tak­ing on more and more roles which used to be under­taken by US forces in Iraq and else­where”.
Amer­i­can left-wing and anti-war [...]

FTR #612 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Recorded Sep­tem­ber 23, 2007
MP3: Side 1 | Side 2
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Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of Iran­ian pres­i­dent Ahmadinejad’s recent appear­ance at Ivy League Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity in New York, the pro­gram high­lights the dis­turb­ing sim­i­lar­ity to a past pres­i­dent of that university’s embrace of fas­cism. Just as Nicholas Mur­ray But­ler was dis­mis­sive of con­cerns that fas­cism could lead to [...]

Ahmadinejad walks away with a win

His Colum­bia engage­ment gives him what he wants — legit­i­macy — and his hosts look rude to Islamic eyes.
by Tim Rut­tenLA TIMES
One of the world’s truly dan­ger­ous men, Iran­ian Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Ahmadine­jad, left New York a clear win­ner this week, and he can thank the arro­gance of the Amer­i­can acad­emy and most of the U.S. [...]