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.
The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America
Comment: Among the disclosures in the brilliant recent book Family of Secrets by Russ Baker are statements by Bush family associate and author Mickey Herskowitz that Bush felt that starting a war was key to being a successful leader, and that W was contemplating invading Iraq in 1999. Bush clearly felt that a successful posture as [...]
Cover-up of U.S. economic support for Hitler led to creation of two CIA’s–one Democrat and one Republican that serves multinational corporations; Nuremberg trials subverted; Goldstone Report a sham.
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 [...]
by Jim PopkinMSNBC.com White-supremacist groups have recruited 203 people who served in the U.S. military or who claim to have U.S. military backgrounds, according to a new report by the FBI. The unclassified FBI Intelligence Assessment, issued last week and obtained by NBC News, cautions that white-power extremists are trying hard to recruit active-duty soldiers [...]
by Alan FeuerNYT Manhattan on a Friday afternoon: downtown along the East River, where the sun was flashing brightly and a lazy weekend called. Women strolled through the South Street Seaport in their summer dresses; tourists went on round-the-island helicopter tours. It was close enough to Wall Street to almost feel the brokers getting ready [...]
Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11
15 descendants push for renewable energy, cuts in warming emissions MSNBC News Services NEW YORK — Members of the Rockefeller family, descended from the founder of what became Exxon Mobil Corp., challenged the oil giant Wednesday to focus more on renewable sources of energy. They also seek to establish a task force study of the [...]
by Liam Stack in CairoAl Jazeera Cindy Sheehan, an American activist who was nicknamed the “Peace Mom” by the media for her criticism of the Iraq War, retreated from her public campaigns in 2007. The death of her son Casey, a US soldier, in a Baghdad battle in 2005 had transformed Sheehan into a public figure [...]
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