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Was the Relationship between Brian Glyn Williams and Dzokhar Tsarnaev more than Just Student and “Tutor”?

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bomb­ings, we’ve high­lighted the unrav­el­ing of the “two lone nuts” the­ory of that tragic event.In this con­text, we note that younger brother Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s high school men­tor has a back­ground in the CIA and also teaches Islamic stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, which Dzokhar attended.


What Has General Wesley Clark Been Doing since His Retirement?

I.G. Farben’s Fischer-Tropsch process is expe­ri­enc­ing an indus­trial renais­sance. In Kosovo, for­mer NATO com­man­der Gen­eral Wes­ley Clark is chair­man of a com­pany using it to pro­duce syn­thetic fuel from Kosovo’s coal deposits. Coin­ci­den­tally (?) the head of NATO peace­keep­ing forces in Kosovo was the son of Nazi war crmi­nal and Third Reich finance min­istry offi­cial Fritz Reinhardt.


Winds of War Blowing over Northern Pacific Islands?

There has been a sig­nif­i­cant uptick in real or alleged mil­i­tary con­fronta­tions over dis­puted islands in the North Pacific. Con­ser­v­a­tive com­men­ta­tor Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has noted the pos­si­ble drift toward war between Japan and China over unin­hib­ited and dis­puted Islands. Japan has also accused Rus­sia of foment­ing con­fronta­tion over the dis­puted Kuriles.


Terminator V: The machines want your job.

In a fun change of pace, we’re going to have a post that’s light on excerpts and heavy on ranty link­i­ness. That might not actu­ally be fun but it’s not like there’s a robot stand­ing over your shoul­der forc­ing you to read this. Yet.


Fascists in Russian Anti-Putin Coalition: Whither the Oil Rich and Largely Muslim Caucasus?

Anti-Putin Russ­ian coali­tion includes promi­nent fas­cists, includ­ing Alexei Navalny. One won­ders what effect this will have on the largely Mus­lim Caucasus?


“All that Glitters is Not . . .” Oh, Never Mind!

Cen­tral banks buy­ing, not sell­ing gold. This hasn’t hap­pened in 40 years.


FTR #678 Interview (#1) with Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

U.S. lured the Sovi­ets into Afghanistan; George H.W. Bush ana­lysts pro­vide ide­o­log­i­cal base for the actions; Zbig­niew Brzezin­ski imple­ments the plan; Rea­gan cold war­riors reject Soviet with­drawal plan.


Repost: FTR #602 The Plot to Seize the White House — Interview with Jules Archer

Lib­erty League, indus­tri­al­ists, financiers orches­trated the 1934 coup plot; Gen­eral Smed­ley But­ler betrayed the plot; media sup­pressed accu­rate reportage.


Repost: FTR #531 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Offshore

Insur­ance giant AIG’s pro­lific use of off­shore scams, cap­tive rein­sur­ance, ille­gal gam­bits and oper­a­tions, aided by high-level gov’t offi­cials and legislators.


FTR #635 and #636 Going Native, Parts V and VI

Third Reich polit­i­cal strat­egy per­pet­u­ated by Fed­eral Repub­lic of Ger­many, “volks­grup­pen­rechte” (the rights of native peo­ples) aids revan­chist national agenda.