The tag 'Lucy Komisar' is associated with 10 posts.

Clearstream Network Sued for Trafficking Iranian Terror Money

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 17, 2011 ⋅ One comment

COMMENT: Sur­vivors of the 241 Marines killed in the 1983 Beirut bar­racks bomb­ing have sued Clearstream, a sub­sidiary of Deutsche Borse (itself owned by the major Ger­man com­mer­cial banks and, by exten­sion, the Bor­mann cap­i­tal net­work.)
Chan­nel­ing mil­lions of dol­lars back to the Iran­ian regime, Clearstream is alleged to have sub­stan­tively aided that government’s terrorist [...]

A Bit of Good News Amidst the Horror . . .

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ March 23, 2011 ⋅ One comment

COMMENT: With all of the hor­rors unfold­ing around the world, a bit of good news might be wel­come. Amidst all the “pro­gres­sive” and right-wing carp­ing about Obama, a sig­nif­i­cant piece of infor­ma­tion has [under­stand­ably] been over­looked.
The story below might not appear very sig­nif­i­cant at first glance. Buried well down in the story, how­ever, is [...]

Single Mystery Investor Triggered Collapse of Key Bank of America Fund: Identity to Remain Secret

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 29, 2011 ⋅ One comment

COMMENT: In the recently released report about the Wall Street col­lapse, a sin­gle investor’s with­drawal of $20 bil­lion from a key Bank of Amer­ica fund played a deci­sive role. It appears that the pre­cise iden­tity of that indi­vid­ual investor will remain a secret.
Nice.
Eval­u­at­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties, one should not fail to exam­ine the col­lapse of  [...]

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

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

COMMENT: Some very scary peo­ple, includ­ing extreme right-wingers asso­ci­ated with Face­book, as well as Car­lyle Group alumni, have been back­ing the con­cept of estab­lish­ing enor­mous, float­ing “Utopia” lin­ers as seago­ing liv­ing and recre­ational enclaves for the ultra-rich.
Pro­filed in FTR #718, Face­book finan­cial backer Peter Thiel is a major backer of this under­tak­ing. Along with associates, [...]

FTR #675 Interview with Lucy Komisar: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Posted by FTR ⋅ June 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Food Ser­vices Giant Sodexo’s scams cost tax­pay­ers, school chil­dren big bucks; Tim­o­thy Gei­th­ner ignored U.S. Trea­sury bonds naked short sell­ing; Swiss Banks join­ing AIG in off­shore machinations.

FTR #665 Update on the Meltdown, Part 2

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ March 31, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

With much infor­ma­tion undis­closed, mind-boggling scope of finan­cial melt­down might pre­cip­i­tate resur­gence of fas­cism; Mad­off affair truly massive.

FTR #386 “All Around the World” An Update on September 11

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 10, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

Link­ing 9/11, Okla­homa City Bomb­ing and 1993 WTC bomb­ing; Bush ties to Saudi Ara­bia frus­trate inves­ti­ga­tions into 9/11 and al-Qaeda financing.

FTR #387 Interview with Lucy Komisar on The Financial War on Terror

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 3, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

Finan­cial aspects of the abortive “War on Terror.”

FTR #376 A View From the Bridge

Posted by FTR ⋅ September 17, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

Bush fam­ily links to Nazis and Islamists behind 9/11; Big Oil, GOP and Third Reich joined by eco­nomic, oper­a­tional and his­tor­i­cal ties.

Banking with Bin Laden

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ March 15, 2002 ⋅ One comment

Like any other large, global oper­a­tion, inter­na­tional ter­ror­ists need to move large sums of money across bor­ders clandestinely.

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