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FTR #886 What the Hell Does Dave Emory Mean by “The Earth Island Boogie?,” Part 3: Geopolitical Quicksand

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 17, 2016 ⋅ 2 comments

Ana­lyz­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty that Amer­i­can use of Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Islamists as proxy war­riors and armed her­alds of cor­po­ratist free-mar­ket eco­nom­ic val­ues might back­fire on the Unit­ed States, we look at the devel­op­ment of ISIS, the curi­ous Turk­ish about-face on the Fetul­lah Gulen orga­ni­za­tion and fall­out from the so-called “Arab Spring.” Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of a “dooms­day” con­tin­gency plan con­coct­ed by al-Qae­da and Sad­dam Hus­sein to back each oth­er up mil­i­tar­i­ly in the event either or both were over­thrown by the U.S., we exam­ine the promi­nent role of for­mer mem­bers of Sad­dam’s offi­cer corps in admin­is­ter­ing ISIS. ISIS and al-Qae­da are hold­ing forth in Libya, which is serv­ing as a base for spread­ing their oper­a­tions into Africa. Like the bloody Syr­i­an civ­il war, the over­throw of Khadafy (which set the stage for the Islamist pres­ence in Libya) is an out­growth of the so-called “Arab Spring”–one of the “con­ga-line ops” we high­light­ed in FTR #885. Much of the pro­gram high­lights the oper­a­tions of the Fetul­lah Gulen orga­ni­za­tion in Turkey. Alleged to be a CIA front orga­ni­za­tion and Islam­ic extrem­ist in nature, the Gulen orga­ni­za­tion was for­mer­ly an ally of Tayyip Erdo­gan. Now, it is among his most bit­ter oppo­nents. Pro­gram High­lights Include: review of Hitler’s view that Islamists were a cru­cial Third Reich ally; review of a crit­i­cal meet­ing in Switzer­land at which promi­nent Euro-fas­cists and al-Taqwa direc­tor Ahmed Huber met; spec­u­la­tion that the Swiss “Euro-fas­cist” sum­mit may have helped gen­er­ate the intel­li­gence dis­in­for­ma­tion that helped lure the Bush admin­is­tra­tion into the ill-advised Iraq war; “ex” CIA offi­cer Gra­ham Fuller’s ridicule of the alle­ga­tion that the Gulen orga­ni­za­tion is a CIA front orga­ni­za­tion; the close con­nec­tions between Erdo­gan’s AKP Par­ty, Ger­many and the EU.


Another Picture worth a Thousand Words

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 22, 2012 ⋅ 9 comments

Baathist sup­port­ers of Bashar Assad use fas­cist salute. Baath par­ty draws on fas­cist tra­di­tions.


George W. Bush Was Contemplating Invading Iraq in 1999

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

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 […]


Repost: FTR #531 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Offshore

Posted by FTR ⋅ September 23, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

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

Posted by FTR ⋅ April 10, 2007 ⋅ One comment

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


FTR #575 Interview with Robert Parry

Posted by FTR ⋅ November 21, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

This inter­view with Robert Par­ry explores sym­bio­sis between the admin­is­tra­tion of George W. Bush and Al Qae­da, in addi­tion to high­light­ing the rela­tion­ship between the GOP, the Bush fam­i­ly and the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church.


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

Posted by FTR ⋅ November 14, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

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

Posted by FTR ⋅ August 1, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Think that “it can’t hap­pen here?” It HAS hap­pened here.


FTR #560 Economics 9/11

Posted by FTR ⋅ July 18, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood’s free mar­ket ide­ol­o­gy is at one with that of the trans-nation­al cor­po­ra­tions and allied polit­i­cal inter­ests. Those eco­nom­ic prin­ci­ples failed mis­er­ably in Iraq, hav­ing been insti­tut­ed in that unfor­tu­nate coun­try by Grover Norquist. Osama bin Laden’s actions dove­tail sig­nif­i­cant­ly with the goals of the GOP, Bush admin­is­tra­tion and Mus­lim-Broth­er­hood allied eco­nom­ic and nation­al ele­ments.


FTR #556 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Posted by FTR ⋅ July 11, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The Al-Taqwa milieu revealed by the Oper­a­tion Green Quest raids links to 9/11, the GOP and Bush admin­is­tra­tion, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and the Under­ground Reich. Neworks linked to the JFK assas­si­na­tion are explored.


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