The tag 'Iran-Contra' is associated with 72 posts.

No Surprise Here, Either: DEA Laundering Profits from Mexican Cartels

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 7, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Some ele­ments of DEA long known to be com­plicit in drug traf­fick­ing. Is this laun­der­ing REALLY to help fight the drug traffic?

Thompson Agonistes: The Dissent and Subsequent Disappearance of A CIA Officer

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Jim Thomp­son, CIA offi­cer who openly crit­i­cized the Agency’s pol­icy in Asia dis­ap­peared from the face of the earth.

Reflections on Khadafy’s Death

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 21, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

Khadafy’s death will eclipse many impor­tant inves­ti­ga­tions into lethal intel­li­gence abuses, includ­ing Pan Am 102 bomb­ing, oper­a­tions of Edwin Wil­son and Frank Ter­pil, Iran-Contra scandal.

“Somewhere . . . Beyond the Sea . . . ” (Apologies to Bobby Darin)

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Seek­ing to escape the ruin they are vis­it­ing on our soci­ety, super-rich are look­ing to sea and space colonies to escape social appoca­lypse. Face­book financier Peter Thiel (“Free­dom and democ­racy are mutu­ally exclu­sive”) behind it.

Swedish Nazi Background of Assange Accuser’s Accuser

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 10, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Com­ment: The web has been abuzz with a story about con­nec­tions between Julian Assange’s accuser and the Anti-Castro Cuban milieu har­nessed by Oliver North to effect the Iran-Contra machi­na­tions. (Assange has been charged with rape in Sweden–a coun­try who’s rape laws are con­sid­er­ably dif­fer­ent from those in the U.S.) What has been absent from the discussion [...]

Pan Am 103 Bombing, BP and Libya

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 21, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Com­ment: Numer­ous news accounts, such as the story below, have engaged in spec­u­la­tion that BP was involved in secur­ing the release of con­victed Locker­bie bomber al-Megrahi in exchange for being granted off­shore drilling rights for Libya. What is not being dis­cussed are the evi­den­tiary trib­u­taries link­ing George H.W. Bush to the bomb­ing of Pan Am 103 [...]

FTR #715 Interview (#5) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Poppy Bush tabbed by Ger­ald Ford to head CIA as Kennedy assas­si­na­tion inves­ti­ga­tions pro­ceed; Dick Cheney, Don­ald Rums­feld, Karl Rove and Paul Wol­fowitz launch their careers cour­tesy of Poppy and Ger­ald Ford in same time period.

Family of Secrets

Posted by FTR ⋅ June 9, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

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

“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 #703 Interview with Daniel Hopsicker: Catching Up with the “Herd Shot ‘Round the World”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 6, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Infil­tra­tion point for the 9/11 hijack­ers, the Venice Air­port has a his­tory of involve­ment with wrong­do­ing and wrong­do­ers; Ponzi schemes the least heinous of their activ­i­ties; the deep his­tory of that facil­ity over­laps the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy.

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