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The tag 'Ford-Gerald' is associated with 19 posts.

FTR #714 Interview (#4) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 12, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

Nixon’s removal from White House was an intel­li­gence coup, not a “reaf­fir­ma­tion of democ­racy”; Poppy Bush cen­trally involved in his removal; Nixon angered some of the same inter­ests as JFK and was removed by the same team.


“Family of Secrets”: A VERY Important New Book

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

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 #698 Echoes of Dealy Plaza (Update on the Assassination of President Kennedy)

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 19, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

CIA offi­cer who over­saw anti-Castro Cubans involved in killing JFK was liai­son to House Select Com­mit­tee inves­ti­gat­ing the killing; LBJ doubted offi­cial the­ory; so does FBI agent who saw the body.


FTR #689 Interview with Sterling and Peggy Seagrave

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 13, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

William Faulkner noted that “the past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” War Gold stolen by the Japan­ese dom­i­nates the con­tem­po­rary eco­nomic land­scape; the engines of world polit­i­cal power turn in pre­ci­sion with these hid­den engines of wealth.


FTR #579 Gimme a Break! — Reflections on the Death of Gerald Ford

Posted by FTR ⋅ January 23, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Ger­ald Ford’s role in aid­ing the cover-up of Water­gate and, by exten­sion, the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy.


FTR #529 Nazi Roots and Fascist Flowers

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 25, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded Octo­ber 9, 2005 REALAUDIO This broad­cast details some of the fruits that have been borne by the col­lab­o­ra­tion between ele­ments of U.S. intel­li­gence and Nazi and fas­cist groups from World War II. Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of the Ukrain­ian fas­cist OUN/B and its affil­i­ated orga­ni­za­tion the ABN (Anti-Bolshevik League of Nations), the pro­gram high­lights the [...]


FTR #506 The Road to Lugano, Part II

Posted by FTR ⋅ April 26, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Peak Oil con­tro­versy and the car­tel agree­ments behind syn­thetic fuel.


FTR #501 Norbert Schlei and the Strange Case of the “57’s”

Posted by FTR ⋅ March 29, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Nor­bert Schlei, for­mer assis­tant attor­ney gen­eral under JFK, attempted to redeem Japan­ese gov­ern­ment bonds issued against the M-Fund, a slush fund from Japan­ese loot from WWII.


FTR #490 3rd Interview with Robert Parry

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 21, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded Decem­ber 12, 2004REALAUDIOCon­tin­u­ing our dis­cus­sion with ground-breaking jour­nal­ist Robert Parry, this broad­cast begins with the appar­ent sui­cide of inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Gary Webb, whose career was destroyed after he authored an inves­ti­ga­tion of the CIA’s com­plic­ity in the Contra/cocaine con­nec­tion. Parry eulo­gizes Gary Webb and dis­cusses the main­stream press’s shame­ful treat­ment of Gary and his [...]


FTR #489 2nd Interview with Robert Parry

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 14, 2004 ⋅ 3 comments

Ille­gal and trea­so­nous GOP gam­bits dur­ing elec­tion years; politi­ciza­tion of intel­li­gence since George H. W. Bush’s tenure as CIA director.


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