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FTR #872 Interview with Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald about Zbigniew Brzezinski, Afghanistan’s Untold Story and the Ukraine Crisis

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 1, 2015 ⋅ 2 comments

Revis­it­ing Eliz­a­beth Gould and Paul Fitzger­ald, co-authors of “Invis­i­ble His­to­ry: Afghanistan’s Untold Sto­ry,” we exam­ine Zbig­niew Brzezin­ski’s role in lur­ing the Sovi­et Union into the first Afghan war, and his promi­nent role as a geopo­lit­i­cal the­o­reti­cian behind the Ukrain­ian cri­sis. Seek­ing to give the USSR “their Viet­nam,” Brzezin­s­ki delib­er­ate­ly set the stage for the war that ulti­mate­ly led to the cre­ation of al-Qae­da. See­ing Ukraine as a key to con­trol of Eura­sia and the World Island or Earth Island, Cit­i­zen Brzezin­s­ki has been a lead­ing advo­cate for West­ern involve­ment in Ukraine. His son Ian has advo­cat­ed for loos­en­ing the chain of com­mand gov­ern­ing the use of nuclear weapons. Pro­gram High­lights Include: review of the cor­po­ratist eco­nom­ic phi­los­o­phy of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood; CIA offi­cer Gra­ham Fuller’s role in the pre­cip­i­ta­tion of the first Afghan war; dis­cus­sion of the Rock­e­feller milieu and its role in spawn­ing Brzezin­s­ki, as well as Hen­ry Kissinger; review of the role of ISIS-linked Chechen fight­ers in the fight­ing in Ukraine; review of the Amer­i­can vio­la­tion of a promise made to Gor­bachev not to expand NATO up to the Russ­ian bor­der; review of the Boston Marathon Bomb­ing, which appears to have been “blow­back” from an appar­ent covert oper­a­tion in the Cau­ca­sus.


FTR #857 Update on Ukraine, the Earth Island Boogie and “Team Snowden”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 9, 2015 ⋅ 2 comments

Plac­ing the Ukraine cri­sis in a larg­er frame­work, this pro­gram ana­lyzes the event in the con­text of both the “Earth Island” (or “World Island” as it is some­times called) and the psy-op front­ed for by Edward Snow­den. Stretch­ing from the Straits of Gibral­tar, all across Europe, most of the Mid­dle East, Eura­sia, Rus­sia, Chi­na and India, that stretch of land: com­pris­es most of the world’s land mass; con­tains most of the world’s pop­u­la­tion and most of the world’s nat­ur­al resources (includ­ing oil and nat­ur­al gas.) Geopoliti­cians have long seen con­trol­ling that land mass as the key to world dom­i­na­tion. The pop­u­la­tion that occu­pies the mid­dle of that stretch of geog­ra­phy is large­ly Mus­lim. Uti­liz­ing that Mus­lim pop­u­la­tion to con­trol the resources of the Earth Island is a strat­a­gem that has been in effect in the West for a cen­tu­ry. That strat­a­gem is appar­ent­ly behind the inclu­sion of Mus­lim Chechen fight­ers asso­ci­at­ed with the Islam­ic State in the Ukraine war, fight­ing under the admin­is­tra­tive com­mand of the Nazi Pravy Sek­tor group. After review­ing Zbig­niew Brzezin­ski’s use of Mus­lim proxy war­riors to draw the Sovi­ets into the first Afghan war and his view of Ukraine as essen­tial to bot­tling-up Rus­sia, the pro­gram notes that the U.S. is con­tin­u­ing to train Nazi com­bat­ants in Ukraine despite a pro­hi­bi­tion against doing so, because the Ukraine Min­istry of Inte­ri­or is vet­ting the trainees–THAT is the min­istry that formed and admin­is­ters the Nazi for­ma­tions. Much of the pro­gram notes the con­ti­nu­ity between Euro-fas­cists such as the Carl Lund­strom-financed Swe­den Democ­rats and the WikiLeaks/Snowden “op.” (Lund­strom also bankrolled the Pirate Bay web­site that host­ed Wik­iLeaks.) Pro­gram High­lights Include: state­ments by Ukrain­ian “vol­un­teer” bat­tal­ions that they want to attack Rus­sia; Glenn Green­wald finan­cial angel Pierre Omid­yar’s new part­ner­ship with the Nation­al Endow­ment for Democ­ra­cy (a U.S. intel­li­gence proxy ele­ment); the push by the pun­ish­er bat­tal­ions for Poroshenko to declare war (some­thing he can’t do if the coun­try is to receive bad­ly-need­ed aid from the IMF); the links between Julian Assange assis­tant Joran Jer­mas (aka “Israel Shamir”) and the Nazi-inspired anti-Semit­ic MAUP group in Ukraine (at which David Duke teach­es); the arrest of a mem­ber of par­lia­ment from the Swe­den Democ­rats for appar­ent involve­ment in a bomb plot; review of the Swe­den Democ­rats’ financ­ing by Carl Lund­strom.


FTR #751 Interview with Russ Baker

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 4, 2013 ⋅ One comment

In this vis­it with Russ Bak­er, we intro­duced some new top­ics and updat­ed some oth­er inquiries. Not­ed as a ped­dler of the unten­able “Lee Har­vey Oswald as lone nut assas­sin” hypoth­e­sis, Ger­ald Pos­ner has emerged as a PR func­tionary for the broth­er of Afghan pres­i­dent Hamid Karzai. We not­ed that Bill O’Reil­ly did some good work on the JFK assas­si­na­tion before con­form­ing to the right-wing ide­o­log­i­cal dic­tates of Fox News. Much of the pro­gram cen­tered on dis­cus­sion of the re-open­ing of the inves­ti­ga­tion into Robert Kennedy’s assas­si­na­tion. Grant Coop­er’s behav­ior as Sirhan Sirhan’s first defense attor­ney was stun­ning.


Was the Relationship between Brian Glyn Williams and Dzokhar Tsarnaev more than Just Student and “Tutor”?

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 10, 2013 ⋅ 9 comments

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bomb­ings, we’ve high­light­ed the unrav­el­ing of the “two lone nuts” the­o­ry of that trag­ic event.In this con­text, we note that younger broth­er Dzokhar Tsar­naev’s high school men­tor has a back­ground in the CIA and also teach­es Islam­ic stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mass­a­chu­setts-Dart­mouth, which Dzokhar attend­ed.


Old Home(land Security) Week in Boston: “Fee, Fi . . . Ho Hum” (Part 2)

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 28, 2013 ⋅ 7 comments

The Boston bomb­ing sus­pects’ uncle turns out to have been mar­ried to the daugh­ter of a key CIA offi­cer. That offi­cer, Gra­ham E. Fuller, was a key advo­cate of a U.S. alliance with the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. Fuller has also run inter­fer­ence for the insid­i­ous Fetul­lah Gulen cult.


Falling to Earth: September 11th Flight School Operator Rudi Dekkers Arrested for Drug Trafficking

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 15, 2012 ⋅ 4 comments

Long able to escape legal ret­ri­bu­tion for his actions, Huff­man Avi­a­tion oper­a­tor Rudi Dekkers appears to have run out of luck. The Dutch/German pilot who ran the flight school through which 9/11 hijack­er Mohammed Atta and his Ger­man and Aus­tri­an asso­ciates infil­trat­ed the Unit­ed States has been arrest­ed in Hous­ton for drug traf­fick­ing. It remains to be seen what comes of this inves­ti­ga­tion, but the impli­ca­tions are poten­tial­ly stag­ger­ing.


Thompson Agonistes: The Dissent and Subsequent Disappearance of A CIA Officer

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Jim Thomp­son, CIA offi­cer who open­ly crit­i­cized the Agen­cy’s pol­i­cy in Asia dis­ap­peared from the face of the earth.


Islamist Elements Behind Violence, Kyrgystan Government Says

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

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 […]


Russia Alleges that NATO Aiding Afghan Heroin Production

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 5, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Com­ment: the refusal by the Marines to destroy the crop should not be sur­pris­ing in and of itself. The impov­er­ished Afghan farm­ers depend on it for income and in the “bat­tle for hearts and minds,” that is an impor­tant con­sid­er­a­tion. Con­sid­er­ing that oth­er options are avail­able, such as pur­chas­ing the opi­um to make med­ical mor­phine, […]


NATO Refuses Russian Request to Destroy Afghan Opium Fields

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 4, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Com­ment: In light of the mas­sive vol­ume of broad­casts avail­able on this site about intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty involve­ment in drug traf­fick­ing, this should come as no sur­prise. “NATO Rejects Russia’s Demand to Destroy Afghan Pop­py Fields”; New Europe; 3/26/2010. NATO and Rus­sia clashed on 24 March over how to tack­le the drug prob­lem in Afghanistan, where […]


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