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 [...]

Repost: FTR #531 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Offshore

Insur­ance giant AIG’s pro­lific use of off­shore scams, cap­tive rein­sur­ance, ille­gal gam­bits and oper­a­tions, aided by high-level gov’t offi­cials and legislators.

FTR #589 Interview with Lucy Komisar About the BCCI

Inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Lucy Komisar’s chap­ter on BCCI in a new book “A Game as Old as Empire.”

FTR #575 Interview with Robert Parry

Recorded Novem­ber 5, 2006
REALAUDIO

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 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, the [...]

FTR #574 Interview with Daniel Hopsicker – Victor Kozeny’s Last Stan

Activ­i­ties of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta in Florida; Russ­ian drug smug­gling net­works; Edgar Valles Diaz and Igor Rabaev.

FTR #562 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Recorded July 23, 2006
REALAUDIO

Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of the pos­si­bil­ity of a mil­i­tary coup in the United States, the pro­gram fea­tures a panel dis­cus­sion of experts invited to dis­cuss the topic in an arti­cle in Harper’s. In this arti­cle, the pan­elists explore a num­ber of ways in which mil­i­tary influ­ence in soci­ety has been, and is, [...]

FTR #560 Economics 9/11

Recorded July 9, 2006
REALAUDIO

Ana­lyz­ing the eco­nomic impli­ca­tions of the events of 9/11, this pro­gram exam­ines sig­nif­i­cant areas of com­mon­al­ity between the polit­i­cal and eco­nomic forces con­trol­ling the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, as well as al-Qaeda and its par­ent orga­ni­za­tion the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. The broad­cast begins with dis­cus­sion of the free-market eco­nomic phi­los­o­phy of the Mus­lim Brotherhood—a philosophy [...]

FTR #556 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Recorded June 11, 2006
REALAUDIO

This pro­gram sup­ple­ments pre­vi­ous pro­grams about the 9/11 inves­ti­ga­tions. Of pri­mary sig­nif­i­cance is the fail­ure of the United States to pro­vide Swiss author­i­ties with infor­ma­tion about the A.Q. Khan nuclear smug­gling net­work, as well as the fail­ure of the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity to suc­cess­fully inter­dict the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s net­work of off­shore companies—companies apparently [...]

FTR #541 Leaks

Recorded Febrary 12, 2006
REALAUDIO
A major rea­son for George W. Bush’s decline in pub­lic opin­ion polls is the dam­age to his rep­u­ta­tion done by dam­ag­ing dis­clo­sures about his con­duct of the war in Iraq and his pur­suit of Al Qaeda. In this broad­cast, we exam­ine indi­ca­tions that many of these dis­clo­sures have been delib­er­ately leaked in [...]

FTR #535 Death Trap, Part III – Italian Fascism, Bogus Intelligence and the Iraq War

Recorded Novem­ber 20, 2005REALAUDIONB: This stream con­tains both FTR # 535 and an older pro­gram, FTR #514 Con­ver­sa­tion with John Lof­tus About the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, orig­i­nally aired and blogged on June 21, 2005. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast. See also FTR #527 Death Trap Part II & FTR #471 Death Trap.In a sup­ple­ment to [...]