The tag 'Iraq' is associated with 90 posts.

FTR #730 Interview with Russ Baker (Author of “Family of Secrets”)

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.

Family of Secrets

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

George W. Bush Was Contemplating Invading Iraq in 1999

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 [...]

FTR #706 Interview with John Loftus: The Obama Administration as the Last Victim of World War II

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.

“Family of Secrets”: A VERY Important New Book

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 [...]

White-power groups recruiting from military

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 [...]

A Major Arms Dealer in Shackles, Delivered to New York

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 [...]

Jihad and Jew-Hatred

Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11

Think past oil, Rockefeller kin tell Exxon

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 [...]

Interview: Cindy Sheehan

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 [...]