The Milteer Connection Resurfaces

Com­ment: A recent story about the inves­ti­ga­tion of the JFK assas­si­na­tion con­ducted by a for­mer FBI agent has–once again–brought to light the name of Joseph Adams Mil­teer, a National States Rights Party activist who appears to have had fore­knowl­edge of both the assas­si­na­tions of Pres­i­dent Kennedy and Mar­tin Luther King, Jr.
Don Adams also reports that [...]

FTR #718 In Your Facebook: A Virtual Panoptican?

Seen as a dream come true, Face­book could be your worst night­mare. Intel­li­gence ser­vices (includ­ing CIA), right-wing ide­o­logues with appar­ent Under­ground Reich links are deeply involved with the network.

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 #713 Interview (#3) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

With JFK safely out of the way, Poppy Bush safe­guards the inter­ests that killed him; elected to Con­gress, Poppy lands a plum com­mit­tee posi­tion, cour­tesy of his father; strings pulled to get Dubya into a National Guard posi­tion; Dubya goes AWOL.

U-2, Take II?

Com­ment: On the heels of Pres­i­dent Obama’s appar­ent diplo­matic rap­proche­ment with Russ­ian pres­i­dent Medvedev, in which progress on var­i­ous mat­ters appears to have been achieved, a “Russ­ian spy scan­dal” has dom­i­nated recent head­lines.
“Spy Scan­dal Casts Shadow on Obama-Medvedev ‘Burger Diplo­macy’” by Ria Novosti; Eura­sia Review; 6/29/2010.

Com­ment: In FTR #706, we exam­ined John Lof­tus’ con­tention that [...]

Wells Fargo, Wachovia, B of A Involved with Mexico Drug Cartel Operations

Com­ment: It is no secret that major finan­cial insti­tu­tions, Amer­i­can and for­eign, are deeply involved with laun­der­ing drugs for major smug­gling oper­a­tions.  A recent arti­cle notes the involve­ment of B of A and Wachovia (now owned by Wells Fargo) in an oper­a­tion that resulted  in the bust of a DC-9 car­ry­ing 5.7 tons of cocaine. [...]

FTR #712 Interview (#2) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

George H.W. Bush appar­ently deeply involved with JFK assas­si­na­tion; in Dal­las at the time, he’s never sat­is­fac­to­rily accounted for his activ­i­ties; he was very close to Dal­las power polit­i­cal ele­ments that removed Kennedy (many of them appar­ently CIA); Poppy’s attempts at cov­er­ing his tracks sug­gest cul­pa­bil­ity in the murder.

Islamist Elements Behind Violence, Kyrgystan Government Says

Com­ment: As noted pre­vi­ously, the towns of Osh and Jalal-Abad in Kyr­gys­tan, in addi­tion to being flash­points of lethal Uzbek/Kyrgyz eth­nic ten­sions, are epi­cen­ters of activ­ity for Hizb Ut-Tahrir, a Mus­lim Broth­er­hood affil­i­ate.
The gov­ern­ment of Kyr­gyzs­tan is now claim­ing that Islamist ele­ments, con­spir­ing with the fam­ily of the deposed leader, pre­cip­i­tated the vio­lence. In FTR [...]

FTR #711 Interview (#1) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Bush family’s his­tory and for­tunes pro­foundly linked to Wall Street, the petro­leum indus­try and the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity; “Poppy” Bush’s Zap­ata Petro­leum an appar­ent intel­li­gence front; Poppy appar­ently deeply involved with the JFK assassination.

Family of Secrets

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