Trump’s threat to attack Syria and the growing tensions between the US and Russia Ray McGovern served as an Army intelligence officer and a CIA analyst for 27 years under 7 presidential administrations, from John F. Kennedy to George H. W. Bush. Among his duties was preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which was a one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s most senior national …
The Gary Null Show – 02.05.18
The liberal Democratic establishment and the memo Ray McGovern served as an Army intelligence officer and a CIA analyst for 27 years under 7 presidential administrations, from John F. Kennedy to George H. W. Bush. Among his duties was preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which was a one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s most senior national security advisers. He was responsible for the …
Meria Heller – Roaring Truth, with Meria and Jim Fetzer – 10.29.17
Roaring Truth, with Meria and Jim Fetzer. The latest from the JFK Conference;Oswald and Tippett;autopsy photos;Jackie & Bobby;Mayor of Dallas brother was CIA; KGB in 1965 and Johnson;Johnson’s lover;latest paper release;Who’s the Lee in Mexico (Al Bundy?) ;Updates on: Sandy Hook, Boston, 9/11, Vegas;Len Posner drops his lawsuit against Wolfgang Halbig;Boston bomber gets federal appeals court to hear case for his innocence;Airlines pay …
The Gary Null Show – 05.23.17
The story of CIA-sponsored Terrorism to remove Castro and further evidence of CIA involvement in the JFK assassination. Carlos Harrison is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, editor and author. He is a former national and international correspondent for Fox New, a reporter for the Miami Herald and has written two award winning television documentaries, seven featured screenplays and 100s of …
Progressive Commentary Hour – 04.11.17
The syrian crisis
JONATHAN KIRSHNER – Five Looming Geopolitical Crises of the Trump Administration
Foreign policy crises are inevitable, and no American president can prevent them from arising. But it is possible to provoke, mismanage, and even exacerbate them, making a fraught situation catastrophically worse. We are only here today in part because John F. Kennedy overruled the hotheads among his advisors—they were in the majority—during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the anxious heat …
RALPH NADER – Ready for the Jawboning Presidency of Donald Trump?
All signs point to Donald Trump becoming a jawboning president without equal in American history. That is, jawboning by exerting rhetorical bombast focused on people, corporations and institutions, with massive media propulsion behind the very personal presidency he will establish. It will be a natural daily extension of his boundless, easily bruisable ego. Trump has embraced these tactics as both …
Nick Turse – Tomgram: Nick Turse, Washington’s America-First Commandos in Africa
When Donald Trump enters the Oval Office, awaiting him will not only be his own private air assassination corps (those CIA drones that take out terror suspects globally from a White House “kill list”), but his own private and remarkably secret military. Ever since John F. Kennedy first made the Green Berets into figures of military glamour, there’s always been …
MATT STOLLER – How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul
It was January 1975, and the Watergate Babies had arrived in Washington looking for blood. The Watergate Babies—as the recently elected Democratic congressmen were known—were young, idealistic liberals who had been swept into office on a promise to clean up government, end the war in Vietnam, and rid the nation’s capital of the kind of corruption and dirty politics the …
Ken Klippenstein – Kissinger’s Corpses: A Look at Pinochet’s FBI File
ith Henry Kissinger’s name back in the news, so are the facts of his ghoulish tenure as national security advisor and secretary of state under the Nixon and Ford administrations. Among the most infamous was the role Kissinger played in supporting the brutal military dictator of Chile, General Augusto Pinochet, whom Kissinger once told: “We are sympathetic with what you are …