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. [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
FTR #612 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates
Recorded September 23, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO 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 [...]
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 [...]
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