Today on The Gary Null, Gary opens up with some deep thinking commentaries. In the second half of the program Gary talks with guest Dr. Scott Bennett. Dr. Scott Bennett is a US Army Special Operations Officer who specialized in global psychological operations and warfare, and performing analysis to track financial funding of terrorist organizations. He was also a counter-terrorism analyst for one of the nation’s largest defense contractors Booz Allen Hamilton – the same firm Edward Snowden worked at when he released the troves of documents to Glen Greenwald at the Guardian. Dr. Benett has worked at the highest levels of government – US Special Ops Command, US Central Command, the State Department coordinator for counterterrorism and other federal agencies. From 2003 to 2008 he served in the Bush administration and before that was a research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. He holds a PhD in Political Theory from Catholic University and has written an important book of his experiences and investigations – “Shell Game: A Military Whistleblowing Report About the Betrayal and Coverup by the US Government of the Union Bank of Switzerlan Terrorist Finance Connection to Edward Snowden’s Leaks about Booz Allen Hamilton and US Central Command” His website is ArmyPsyOp.wix.com/scottbennett where you can find further information, publications, and videos and presentations.
Progressive Commentary Hour – 08-30-16
A look at US Foreign Policy and American global hegemony through the eyes of the US government’s support of Salafi terrorism and its war on terror Our guest has a very unique background that is rarely ever heard on a more liberal program. Dr. Scott Bennett is a US Army Special Operations Officer who specialized in global psychological operations and …
Oliver Stone links Pokémon Go to totalitarianism during privacy debate
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Ray McGovern – Hillary Clinton’s Damning Emails
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John Stanton – Hillary Clinton’s Penchant for War. The Legacy of Allen and John Foster Dulles
According to Counterpunch (2007) editors Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair: “The desire for secrecy is one of Mrs. Clinton’s enduring and damaging traits…Befitting a Midwestern Methodist with a bullying father, repression has always been one of Mrs. Clinton’s most prominent characteristics. Her’s has been the instinct to conceal, to deny, to refuse to admit any mistake. … Since Vietnam, there’s never …
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PETER DALE SCOTT – DEEP HISTORY AND THE GLOBAL DRUG CONNECTION, PART 1
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