McGraw Family (Owners of S & P) are Longtime Intimates of the Bush Family

COMMENT: Stan­dard and Poor’s is owned by pub­lish­ing giant McGraw-Hill. In the wake of S & P’s down­grade of U.S. bonds’ rat­ing from AAA (for the first time in his­tory), it comes as no great sur­prise that the McGraw fam­ily are long time asso­ciates of the “Fam­ily of Secrets.”
This multi-generational asso­ci­a­tion goes back [...]

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

Repost: FTR #248 Bushed — The Political Heritage of George W.

A prophetic rebroad­cast: the polit­i­cal her­itage to which George W. is heir. The Bush fam­ily has a long, exten­sive, influ­en­tial, and largely sin­is­ter history.

FTR #618 Veteran’s Day Interview with John Loftus

Recorded Novem­ber 11, 2007
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In 2007, Mr. Emory observed Vet­er­ans’ Day by vis­it­ing with John Lof­tus, a for­mer mil­i­tary offi­cer who has hero­ically uncov­ered and exposed the machi­na­tions of inter­na­tional fas­cism, bring­ing the forces of both law and jour­nal­ism to bear on the male­fac­tors. In addi­tion to help­ing locate and prosecute [...]

FTR #614 Oleaginous Diplomacy — “Who Still Talks Nowadays of the Extermination of the Armenians?”

Recorded Octo­ber 14, 2007
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Fur­ther dis­turb­ing an already tur­bu­lent Mid­dle East polit­i­cal land­scape, the diplo­matic dis­pute between the U.S. and Turkey over a con­gres­sional res­o­lu­tion brought the Ottoman Empire’s World War I geno­ci­dal cam­paign against its Armen­ian minor­ity briefly into the fore­front of world events. This broad­cast explores the cyn­i­cal diplomacy [...]

FTR #578 Darkness at Sunrise

The Inter­dic­tion of Oper­a­tion Safe Haven
Recorded Novem­ber 26, 2006
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Intro­duc­tion: Doc­u­ment­ing neu­tral­iza­tion of the pro­gram to block the Nazi flight cap­i­tal pro­gram dur­ing and after World War II, this pro­gram high­lights the machi­na­tions of Allen Dulles in assur­ing the suc­cess of Oper­a­tion Eagle’s Flight. (Dulles, as well as his brother John Fos­ter, were attor­neys for the powerful [...]

FTR #511 Uncle Sam & The Swastika: 25 Years Later

Rela­tion­ships between Ger­man and Amer­i­can firms that were instru­men­tal in the rise of the Third Reich.

FTR #510 Deadly Echoes—I Told You So, Part II

Com­par­ing rumi­na­tions in 2000 on the prob­a­ble results of a George W. Bush pres­i­dency with the out­come of his first four-plus years in office.

FTR #506 The Road to Lugano, Part II

Peak Oil con­tro­versy and the car­tel agree­ments behind syn­thetic fuel.