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Chuck Hagel’s Corporate Connections

Chuck Hagel has been either praised or exco­ri­ated for state­ments and posi­tions he has made in the past. His insti­tu­tional con­nec­tions are of far more importance–many of those run in the direc­tion of the Under­ground Reich and the transna­tional cor­po­ra­tions. In addi­tion to serv­ing as a direc­tor of Chevron (Stan­dard Oil of Cal­i­for­nia), Hagel is a direc­tor of Zurich’s Hold­ing Com­pany of Amer­ica and on the advi­sory board of Deutsche Bank of Amer­ica. The lat­ter was among the play­ers in the sub­prime deba­cle from which the world is still strug­gling to emerge.


German Intelligence and the 9/11 Conspirators

Ger­man intel­li­gence and law enforce­ment had the Ham­burg cell involved in the 9/11 attacks under sur­veil­lance by August of 1998 and did noth­ing. The offi­cer in charge of law enforce­ment activ­i­ties for Ham­burg at the time has report­edly become head of the BND. Cou­pled with Atta’s Ger­man and Aus­trian asso­ciates in Florida, his spon­sor­ship by the Carl Duis­berg Gesellschaft and Germany’s sus­pi­cious manip­u­la­tion of “Curve­ball,” seri­ous ques­tions must be asked about the role of Ger­many and its intel­li­gence ser­vices with regard to 9/11 and the Iraq war.


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