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: Although his health was somewhat weak, the passing of Columbia University scholar Manning Marable on the eve of the publication of a controversial new biography of Malcom X raises questions.
Marable’s passing precluded his calling attention to his recent work, which suggests complicity on the part of the FBI and the NYPD in Malcom X’s [...]
COMMENT: Ongoing For The Record programs are detailing some of WikiLeaks’ activities in connection with Middle Eastern political turmoil. The blog Harry’s Place has been focusing attention on some of that misbegotten organization’s unsavory activities including: the accessing of child pornography sites and defending the use of same; the distortion of the meaning of [...]
Very unsavory ingredients in WikiLeaks soup; Russian on-line cyber crimnals join intelligence officers, mind-control victims/operatives, Nazi financiers, George Soros, and Holocaust deniers in this unsavory dish; Karl Rove presence in Sweden as WikiLeaks’ disclosures trigger popular uprisings in Middle East; Muslim Brotherhood to benefit?*
Youthful idealists, the Pirate Bay/Pirate Party/Anonymous milieu inadvertently serve Nazi elements in the WikiLeaks imbroglio; at the core of their associations is a corporatized, fascist power nexus; WikiLeaks employs fascists in key positions.
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: Future posts will analyze the latest “not politically motivated”, “lone nut” political assassin in Arizona. [Initial press accounts discussed more than one suspect.] What has received little notice is the death in a strange-sounding car fire of Ashley Turton, the wife of Obama’s liaison to the now-GOP controlled House of Representatives, Dan Turton.
Was the [...]
COMMENT: One of the diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks alleges that a joint U.S./German spy satellite program will essentially be run by Germany.
This has a number of interesting implications, among them, some thoughts about the death of William Wheeler III. Working for the Mitre Corporation, he was involved with an entity deeply involved with satellite [...]
COMMENT: John Wheeler III, an expert on the U.S. military who served in the administrations of Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush was found murdered in a Delaware landfill.
Who killed him and why remains to be seen.
In this context, it is worth noting that Wheeler was very afraid of the possibility of cyber warfare. [...]
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.
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