18 1/2 Minute Gap in Watergate Tape to Remain Mystery

COMMENT: It turns out that the high-tech efforts by inves­ti­ga­tors to restore the mate­r­ial lost in an 18 1/2 minute gap in one of Nixon’s Water­gate tapes have failed. We will never know, for sure, what was in that sec­tion of tape.
One of the cen­tral con­sid­er­a­tions in ana­lyz­ing Water­gate is the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy–what [...]

FTR #743 Interview (#8) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

The Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column–the media that should inform us deceive on behalf of those they should expose; Insti­tu­tion­al­ized power dimin­ishes the pub­lic­ity for “Fam­ily of Secrets.” The Inter­net allows cit­i­zens to fight back.

FTR #730 Interview with Russ Baker (Author of “Family of Secrets”)

Break­ing jour­nal­is­tic taboos about the JFK assas­si­na­tion, Russ Baker por­trays the real­ity of Amer­i­can power pol­i­tics, as exem­pli­fied by the Bush family’s use of covert action to manip­u­late the United States and its citizens.

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.