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.
COMMENT: In recent years there has [appropriately] been much discussion of Goldman Sachs. CEO Llolyd Blankfein has an interesting professional background, which might indicate operational connections to the intelligence community.
After a rise that could truly be called a classic American “up-by-the-bootstraps” ascent, Blankfein worked for years as a tax lawyer for Donovan Leisure, the [...]
COMMENT: A recent New York Times article provides further evidence of U.S. support for what we have termed “Piggy-Back Coup.
A bullet-point synopsis of this complex investigation is available.
“U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings” by Ron Nixon; The New York Times; 4/14/2011.
EXCERPT: Even as the United States poured billions of dollars into foreign military programs [...]
Assurances to the contrary notwithstanding, Muslim Brotherhood poised to ascend in Egypt; Shedding the West’s old autocrats in the Middle East may benefit al-Qaeda; Obama poised for political destruction over these events.
COMMENT: Yesterday, there was the surprise announcement that Keith Olbermann was ending his show on MSNBC. It’s officially being declared that this had nothing to do with the approval of Comcast’s takeover by NBC Universal but that seems questionable given that Comcast’s leader’s are staunch GOP supporters.
Comcast’s long-time ruling duo, Tom Murphy and Daniel Burke, [...]
COMMENT: In the wake of the shooting in Arizona, many unanswered (and often unasked) questions suggest themselves. To do justice to the event will require more time and analysis than can be put into a Food For Thought post.
Sufficient analysis and discussion will necessarily have to wait for a For The Record program and [...]
COMMENT: Some very scary people, including extreme right-wingers associated with Facebook, as well as Carlyle Group alumni, have been backing the concept of establishing enormous, floating “Utopia” liners as seagoing living and recreational enclaves for the ultra-rich.
Profiled in FTR #718, Facebook financial backer Peter Thiel is a major backer of this undertaking. Along with associates, [...]
Conspiratorial process on a massive scale produced fascism, World War II; economically empowered by the Webb-Pomerene Act, the backers of the Axis collaborated with Wall Street’s Robber Barons before, during and after the war. State and Justice Departments complicit.
Breaking journalistic taboos about the JFK assassination, Russ Baker portrays the reality of American power politics, as exemplified by the Bush family’s use of covert action to manipulate the United States and its citizens.
Attributed overwhelmingly to Hugo Chavez, large-scale global drug trafficking network also involves elements overlapping clandestine aviation networks in South Florida through which 9/11 hijackers infiltrated.