The tag 'Oil' is associated with 168 posts.

FTR #712 Interview (#2) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

George H.W. Bush appar­ently deeply involved with JFK assas­si­na­tion; in Dal­las at the time, he’s never sat­is­fac­to­rily accounted for his activ­i­ties; he was very close to Dal­las power polit­i­cal ele­ments that removed Kennedy (many of them appar­ently CIA); Poppy’s attempts at cov­er­ing his tracks sug­gest cul­pa­bil­ity in the murder.

Islamist Elements Behind Violence, Kyrgystan Government Says

Com­ment: As noted pre­vi­ously, the towns of Osh and Jalal-Abad in Kyr­gys­tan, in addi­tion to being flash­points of lethal Uzbek/Kyrgyz eth­nic ten­sions, are epi­cen­ters of activ­ity for Hizb Ut-Tahrir, a Mus­lim Broth­er­hood affil­i­ate. The gov­ern­ment of Kyr­gyzs­tan is now claim­ing that Islamist ele­ments, con­spir­ing with the fam­ily of the deposed leader, pre­cip­i­tated the vio­lence. In [...]

FTR #711 Interview (#1) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Bush family’s his­tory and for­tunes pro­foundly linked to Wall Street, the petro­leum indus­try and the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity; “Poppy” Bush’s Zap­ata Petro­leum an appar­ent intel­li­gence front; Poppy appar­ently deeply involved with the JFK assassination.

FTR #710 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Jihadist ele­ments wel­comed in Geor­gia (for­mer U.S.S.R.), appar­ently with U.S. bless­ing; Russ­ian fas­cism growing;Pentagon buy­ing “Peak Oil” hypoth­e­sis; cor­po­rate jets exempt from FAA reg­u­la­tions; cyber-attack on U.S. power grid?

Muslim Brotherhood and the Violence in Kyrgystan

Com­ment: The esca­lat­ing vio­lence in Kyr­gys­tan is occur­ring in areas in which one finds sig­nif­i­cant pres­ence of  a Mus­lim Broth­er­hood affil­i­ate, Hizb ut-Tahrir. An AP arti­cle sets forth how the eth­nic clashes in the Kry­gyzs­tan towns of Osh and Jalal-abad are pri­mary between eth­nic Kyr­gyz and eth­nic Uzbek–both groups pri­mar­ily sunni.  The Uzbek’s are 14% [...]

Family of Secrets

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

Trouble on Oiled Waters, Pt. 2

Com­ment: BP has bought the Google and Yahoo search words rel­e­vant to research­ing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mex­ico, with the intent of redi­rect­ing searches for the pur­poses of dam­age con­trol. “BP buys Google, Yahoo Search Words to Keep Peo­ple away from Real News on Gulf Oil Spill Disaster“by Maryann Tobin; examiner.com;  6/6/2010. [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

FTR #680 Interview [#2] with Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald

U.S. Cold War pol­icy pro­duces slaugh­ter of mod­er­ates in Afghanistan; Pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions drive U.S. pol­icy in that coun­try and led to U.S. sup­port of Tal­iban; Tal­iban cre­ated by U.S. “ally” Pakistan.