FTR #716 Interview (#6) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”
Decades of Bush family intrigue culminates in Dubya’s eight year debacle; disasters overtaking the US are the inevitable outgrowth of Bush’s corporatist philosophy and corrupt administrative practice.
FTR #707 Update on Euro Fascism
European fascist movements dating to World War II are fashionable again; Sweden is home to virulent fascists, evolving from Per Engdahl’s 1930’s organization; Was investigative author Stieg Larsson murdered?
Guess Who Oversaw BCCI’s Afairs for the Treasury Department under Reagan/Bush?
Comment: The brilliant new book Family of Secrets by Russ Baker analyzes the BCCI imbroglio at great length. (It was the BCCI nexus that spawned the business relationship between the Bush and Bin Laden families.)
Of course, the BCCI/James R. Bath concatenation lies at the foundation of the investigation into the terror-funding apparatus that was exposed [...]
Fakin’ It: Eric Cantor and the “Non-Attack”
Comment: With numerous Democratic senators and congressional representatives having received overt and/or implicit threats, Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) has been grandstanding about a supposed shooting at his headquarters.
In short, it appears to be “Not as Advertised.”
“Cantor’s ‘Random Arc’ of Doom” by Josh Marshall; Talking Points Memo; 3/25/2010.
It wasn’t quite as bad as showing up this [...]
GOP-Inspired Violence: Business as Usual
Comment: Threats against democratic legislators have become commonplace during the course of the Obama administration. It should not come as a surprise that a party that enthusiastically incorporated Nazi war crminals and Muslim Brotherhood jihadists and terrorists into its ranks would tacitly encourage such practices. In lectures we have examined the paramilitary right as an [...]
Texas Board of Education Attacks the Enlightenment
“Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change” by James McKinley, Jr.; The New York Times; 3/12/2010.
Comment: Because of its size, Texas wields a disproportionately large influence over school curricula. The Texas Board of Education’s decision to delete textbook references to Thomas Jefferson in favor of mention of Thomas Aquinas and Jean Calvin will affect far more than [...]
Nazi/SS Collaborator Stephan Bandera Named “Hero of Ukraine”
The largest Jewish human rights organization in the US, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, joined the chorus of those who condemn the declaration of controversial nationalist leader Stepan Bandera as a Hero of Ukraine.
FTR #689 Interview with Sterling and Peggy Seagrave
William Faulkner noted that “the past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” War Gold stolen by the Japanese dominates the contemporary economic landscape; the engines of world political power turn in precision with these hidden engines of wealth.
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.
FTR #678 Interview (#1) with Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
U.S. lured the Soviets into Afghanistan; George H.W. Bush analysts provide ideological base for the actions; Zbigniew Brzezinski implements the plan; Reagan cold warriors reject Soviet withdrawal plan.
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