In Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma City Bombing
by James RidgewayMOTHER JONES Federal officials insist that the Oklahoma City bombing case was solved a decade ago. But a Salt Lake City lawyer in search of his brother’s killers has dug up some remarkable clues—on cross-dressing bank robbers, the FBI, and the mysterious third man. KENNEY TRENTADUE was driving a 1986 Chevy pickup when he [...]
Bush Weighs Reaching Out To ‘Brothers’
by Eli LakeTHE NEW YORK SUNWASHINGTON — The Bush administration is quietly weighing the prospect of reaching out to the party that founded modern political Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood. Still in its early stages and below the radar, the current American deliberations and diplomacy with the organization, known in Arabic as Ikhwan, take on new [...]
Roads To Riches
by Emily ThorntonBUSINESS WEEK Why investors are clamoring to take over America’s highways, bridges, and airports—and why the public should be nervous Steve Hogan was in a bind. The executive director of Colorado’s Northwest Parkway Public Highway Authority had run up $416 million in debt to build the 10-mile toll road between north Denver and [...]
Why US Shields Japan’s WWII Denials
by Jerry MeldonCONSORTIUM NEWSEditor’s Note: Over the years, we have written a number of stories about Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s influence-buying schemes inside U.S. conservative political circles – and the federal government’s odd refusal to aggressively enforce laws when Moon’s operation is caught in legally questionable activities. [See, for instance, Moon/Bush ‘Ongoing Crime Enterprise’.] In [...]
FTR #582 Retrospective on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Recorded January 21, 2007 REALAUDIO With the release in late 2006 of the popular motion picture Bobby, attention has been focused once again on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. The killing of Senator Robert F. Kennedy is often perceived as the one major American political assassination that was indisputably the work of a “lone-nut.” [...]
CIA role claim in Kennedy killing
New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy’s assassination has been brought to light. The evidence was shown in a report by Shane O’Sullivan, broadcast on BBC Newsnight. It reveals that the operatives and four unidentified associates were at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles in the moments [...]
FTR #579 Gimme a Break! — Reflections on the Death of Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford’s role in aiding the cover-up of Watergate and, by extension, the assassination of President Kennedy.
How Ford stood by ‘real friend’ Nixon
Unpublished tapes, documents shed light on the deep relationship between them Bob WoodwardWASHINGTON POST Washington — Months before Richard Nixon set Michigan congressman Gerald Ford on the path to the White House, Nixon turned to Ford, who called himself the embattled president’s “only real friend,” to get him out of trouble. During one of the [...]
FTR #578 Darkness at Sunrise
The Interdiction of Operation Safe Haven Recorded November 26, 2006 REALAUDIO Introduction: Documenting neutralization of the program to block the Nazi flight capital program during and after World War II, this program highlights the machinations of Allen Dulles in assuring the success of Operation Eagle’s Flight. (Dulles, as well as his brother John Foster, were attorneys [...]
FTR #575 Interview with Robert Parry
Recorded November 5, 2006 REALAUDIO Introduction: Once again, Mr. Emory interviewed Robert Parry, who runs the “Consortium News” web site. The last program recorded before the 2006 election, this broadcast examines how George W. Bush has actually worked with, not against, Osama bin Laden. Beginning with analysis of a 2004 videotape released just before the [...]
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