FTR #715 Interview (#5) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Poppy Bush tabbed by Ger­ald Ford to head CIA as Kennedy assas­si­na­tion inves­ti­ga­tions pro­ceed; Dick Cheney, Don­ald Rums­feld, Karl Rove and Paul Wol­fowitz launch their careers cour­tesy of Poppy and Ger­ald Ford in same time period.

FTR #714 Interview (#4) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Nixon’s removal from White House was an intel­li­gence coup, not a “reaf­fir­ma­tion of democ­racy”; Poppy Bush cen­trally involved in his removal; Nixon angered some of the same inter­ests as JFK and was removed by the same team.

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.

“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 of [...]

Blackwater Founder and West Michigan Native Funds Right-wing through Foundation

Medi­a­Mouse
Black­wa­ter USA founder and West Michi­gan native Erik Prince funds a vari­ety of rightwing and reli­gious causes accord­ing to a review of grants awarded by Prince’s Frei­heit Foun­da­tion. Prince, who’s Black­wa­ter has drawn con­sid­er­able atten­tion for its work in Iraq, post-Katrina New Orleans, and Colom­bia, also has strong ties to the eco­nomic and reli­gious right [...]

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 the Boulder [...]

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 dark­est days of [...]

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 #563 A Tale of Two Heroes

Recorded August 13, 2006
REALAUDIO
Revis­it­ing the tragic story of FBI Agent John O’Neill, the pro­gram high­lights his unsuc­cess­ful efforts at inter­dict­ing Al Qaeda oper­a­tions and details the mag­nif­i­cent work of his Lebanese-American col­league Ali Soufan. These are the “Two Heroes” in the title of the broad­cast. In charge of the FBI’s inves­ti­ga­tion of Al Qaeda, O’Neill [...]