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Connecting the Dots with Dr Wilmer Leon
Are the Democrats Secretly Fueling U.S. Militarism? The Shocking Truth with Jeremy Kuzmarov

Connecting the Dots with Dr Wilmer Leon

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2024 64:18


Get ready to rethink everything you know about the Democratic Party! In this explosive episode of Connecting the Dots, I sit down with historian and author Jeremy Kuzmarov to reveal how the party's messaging has quietly embraced militarism—and what it means for America's future. This isn't just another political chat; we're diving deep into the hidden history behind today's headlines, exposing the bipartisan grip of the military-industrial complex on both parties. Jeremy and I break down how Democrats have shaped U.S. foreign policy, fueling wars and global interventions that have real-world impacts on immigration and international relations. If you're ready for a raw, eye-opening conversation on how our political system prioritizes power over peace, you won't want to miss this! Tune in for insights that challenge the status quo and uncover the urgent need for a more balanced, humane approach to politics, both at home and abroad. Watch or Listen now to join the conversation! Find me and the show on social media. Click the following links or search @DrWilmerLeon on X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Patreon and YouTube!   Hey everyone, Dr. Wilmer here! If you've been enjoying my deep dives into the real stories behind the headlines and appreciate the balanced perspective I bring, I'd love your support on my Patreon channel. Your contribution helps me keep "Connecting the Dots" alive, revealing the truth behind the news. Join our community, and together, let's keep uncovering the hidden truths and making sense of the world. Thank you for being a part of this journey! Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:00:00): Hey, here are a couple questions. Has the messaging from the Democrats changed over the past few years? Is the messaging more jingoistic, more saber rattling, have they become the party of militarism? Let's find out Announcer (00:00:22): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:00:30): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon. I am Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they happen in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historical context in which they take place. During each episode, my guests and I have probing, provocative, and in-depth discussions that connect the dots between these events and the broader historic context in which they occur, thus enabling you to better understand and analyze the events that impact the global village in which we live. On today's episode. The issue before is militarism and messaging. My guest is a man who holds a PhD in American history from Brandeis University. He's the managing editor of Covert Action Magazine. He's the author of five books on US Foreign Policy. He's the author of a piece at Covert Action entitled DNC Convention Features former CIA director who was in charge of drone programs that killed thousands. He is Dr. Jeremy Komaroff. Jeremy, welcome to the show. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:01:39): Thanks so much for having me. Great to be with you. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:01:41): You open your peace in covert action as follows, Leon Panetta was drowned out by anti-war activists when he spoke at the 2016 convention, but not this time. Former CIA director, Leon Panetta, who was the director from 2009 to 2011, was among the featured speakers on the final day of the DNC in Chicago on August 22nd when Kamala Harris accepted the party's nomination as its presidential candidate. Jeremy, does this represent just a shift in rhetoric, or is this a shift in policy and a shift in direction? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:02:25): Well, I think we see a lot of continuity. I mean, Panetta was there in 2016. He's giving the same kind of speech eight years later. In 2016, he was really promoting these anti-Russia themes, anti Putin. This was the forerunner of the Russia gate. They were already attacking Donald Trump as a Russian agents. And his speech in 2024 was the same kind of thing. It was really very jingoistic militaristic in that speech. He was invoking the glory of the Obama administration assassination of Osama Bin Laden or alleged assassination because there are a lot of different theories about what really might've gone on there. And the official story was shown to be a lie. Seymour Hirsch had a piece that was very good, and he compared it to Alice Wonderland, and their rhetoric was so far out there as to what really is known to have happened. And yeah, there are a lot of question mark or they dumped the body at sea, so there are no autopsy and some question if that was even Bin Laden. (00:03:31): Some people believe he died years earlier from renal failure. But in any event, that's the kind of thing they were doing just touting the War on terror. The US military Panetta said something that America made mistake of trying to be isolationist in the 1930s. And there's this kind of insinuation, you can't appease Putin as if he the new Hitler and America was not really isolationist. It was a global empire starting the late 19th century when it acquired the Philippines and Puerto Rico and Cuba and function as a global empire from that time period. So it never really isolationist. And FDR had this major naval buildup in the Asia Pacific that essentially provoked the Pacific War. It was a horrific war. So I mean, he obviously doesn't know his history that well, but this is just theater. Yeah, it's a very hawkish theme. He's a dancing and his speech echoed Kamala Harris' speech, anti-Russia themes, pro-military themes. (00:04:36): So that's what you get nowadays out of the Democratic party. And yeah, I mean there were booze of Panetta in 2016, but it was quiet this time around. It seems that people are just trying to mobilize around Harris and the EM of the anti-war movement. I mean, there were protestors outside of the convention. A lot of that centered exclusively on Israel Palestine. So I don't know. I mean, I think the protestors in 2016 were part of the Bernie Sanders faction. Maybe they had some hope in the party then, but now I think anti-war people have no hope in the Democratic Party. So they left or somewhere outside protesting. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:05:21): Well, in fact, that was really the crux of my question, Panda's rhetoric versus the convention's response. And does the convention's response, or some might say lack of response, indicate that there's a serious shift in the party, particularly as we look at how easily war mongering legislation gets passed through Congress, through the democratic elements of Congress as it relates to funding for Ukraine and funding for Gaza and more jingoistic rhetoric as it relates towards China? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:06:01): Absolutely, and I think it's telling that Robert Kennedy and Tulsa Gabbard are considered more peace candidates and they've made a lot of statements critical of US foreign policy, especially regarding Ukraine. Less so for Kennedy, and I think also Gabbard, Israel, Gaza, but definitely Ukraine. They've both been very critical and called for easing of relation with Russia. And they've warned about the threat of nuclear war and that we're in an era and new Cuban missile crisis, they've compared it to, and they were booted out of the party. I mean, Tulsa, they were treated horribly beyond just debate. I mean, Gabbard, she was in one of the CNN debates or televised debates in 2020 as she was running in the primary. And she was viciously attacked by Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris and others who dominate the party in kind of Neo McCarthy I term, and they called her a Putin stooge. (00:07:01): And a Bashir saw theologist because she wanted to, she was against the covert operations in Syria and the escalation of conflict. And somehow they called her all these kind of names and really treated her in the way that Joseph McCarthy would recognize or victim of McCarthyism with reminiscence of that. So she was totally driven out of the party. Now you find they're more on Fox News. I mean, I think the Republican, they're trying to capitalize on the disinfection of many pacifists and peace oriented people with the Democrats, and they're trying to recruit them and draw them into the fold. And that's why they brought in Kennedy and gather. But personally, I think that they're just, they're very cynical operative and their Republican party are just trying to get that vote. But they're not really peace oriented party either. And Trump's foreign policy was very bellicose and aggressive in many ways, certainly toward Latin America. (00:08:00): The drone war, Trump escalated the drone war, escalated war in Somalia, and he's very aggressive and very xenophobic and threatens a major escalation, I think with China. So I think it's just a cynical ploy by the GOP to try and get these disaffected people are disaffected with the Democrats and by recruiting Kennedy and Gabbard to create this persona as a new peace party. But I don't think they really are a peace party. And so those of us who are really committed to pacifism, anti imperialistic politics really have nowhere in the mainstream American politics, and I think we should work on developing our own independent parties. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:08:47): Before I get back to your piece, you mentioned in your earlier answer a reference to people trying to compare former President Trump to Hitler. And I was at the RNC when JD Vance was, his name was placed in nomination and he accepted the nomination. And I was doing my standup after the nomination. And I was saying as I was closing my analysis, I said, I find it very interesting, if not ironic, that a guy who just a couple of years ago was comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler is now his vice presidential nominee, and we'll be standing next to him on stage. I said, how does that happen? And when I said that, there was a guy standing next to me who turned to my cameraman and said, you guys have to leave. You have to leave right now. He was allowing us to use his space, so he was able to tell us that. But my point is, as soon as I said that, you guys got to go, you got to go right now. Explain that because I find it amazing. And only now would something like that happen in our politics. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:10:11): Yeah, well, I think it is increasingly out of the Twilight Zone. I mean, well, firstly, I think a lot of the rather is a bit overblown. I mean, I think Trump, there are a certain fascist theme in the GOP and there are concern about ascendant fascism and authoritarianism both among both parties. I mean the scapegoating of immigrants in the GOP, the extreme nationalism, ultra militarism like veneration of the military, that bears fear that the GOP leaning the fascist direction. I mean, I think some of the rhetoric about Hitler may be overblown, but yeah, it's totally ironic that he was calling him Hitler, as you say, and then he's the nominee. So that's just insane. But why did they kick you out? I mean, you were just repeating a fact that is known to be a fact, and that goes to the growing authoritarianism we see that can't, the kind of conversations we're having are not tolerated in the mainstream. And just a journalist doing his job and just reporting on something is being removed that Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:11:22): And can get you arrested and detained in airports and have your home raided by the FBI, as with Scott Ritter and O'Malley Yella and the three, Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:11:37): Yes, this is, yeah, I think what we're seeing is, yeah, more overt form of authoritarianism. And I think it's showing the flaw of American democracy. I mean, on paper there has been a democracy, but in reality for years and generation dissidents have been ostracized and marginalized and faced a lot of persecution, maybe not physical violence, although I mean under FBI Cual Pro, there were a lot of victims of state repression, people who were unjustly incarcerated sometime for decades, there were people killed. I mean the FBI infiltrated leftists in radical groups with the goal of destroying them and creating divisions. And in the Black Panther, they orchestrated murders. So I mean, there very violent, undersized underbelly of American politics. And that's coming more to the surface more and more. And I mean, you see, look, mark Zuckerberg said that Biden administration told him to censor Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:12:45): The Hunter Biden laptop story. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:12:47): Yeah, well, the hunter bought laptop and relate to COVID-19. And without your view on that, people should have a right to express it, but Zuckerman was told to censor viewed that criticized the government position. And then yeah, you have these raids going on Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:13:04): A minute, a minute, a minute because it's important. I think that people really clearly understand that the point that you just made about Zuckerberg, that's not your opinion. He stated that in a letter that he wrote to Congressman Jim Jordan. And so those who want to wait a minute, what is Jeremy talking about? Right? Google it. You can read the letter for yourselves. It was sent last week and Zuckerberg made those very clear statements and was apologetic for having done what he did in censoring those stories on Facebook because he has since come to understand that contrary to, as he was told, those were not Russian propagandist talking points. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:13:56): Exactly. Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. And another fact is that Tim Waltz made statements supporting censorship if it was related to misinformation, and that seems to be the line in the Democratic Party, but they use misinformation. Could be anybody who's simply critical of the government. They call it somebody who criticizes government policy in Ukraine or vis-a-vis Russia. They say he's promoting misinformation or Russian propaganda, or the same for the Covid narrative. They question the dominant narrative. And I found the review of waltz's statements. He promoted misinformation. So for instance, he claimed that carried out chemical attacks on his own people, and that was refuted by scientists like Theor Postal did a very detailed scientific study, and I did an article and I interviewed postal and he showed me his data and this guy, the top flight MIT scientist, and he repu these claims, his analysis, and he was very neutral. (00:15:02): He wasn't really on any side of the war, and he wasn't even particularly political. It was a very objective scientific study that based on the angles, those attacks had to have occurred from certain areas that were controlled by the rebels, not the Assad government. And that other attacks didn't think that there were chemical attacks, one of those bombing of a fertilizer plant. In other case, some stuff may have been planted like dead animals to make it look like an attack because people would've been dead. He said, he showed me photos and he had images of photos where people who were on the scene would've immediately been killed if there was actually a chemical weapon attack the way they described it, and they weren't affected or sick in any way. So in any event, that's just an example of waltz can be seen to have promoted misinformation. (00:15:57): So based on his own statements, he should censor himself. But the broader point is the American constitution and the American Republic was founded on the deal to free speech, and that's what we should have. And this cancel culture. I think too often on the left, people support censorship under the GU of a cancel culture. And I think that's very dangerous, and I think people are smart enough to see which ideas are good or bad for themselves. They don't need to have this censorship. It serves no purpose, even for somebody who is promoting bad things or false information, you don't have to censor because people are smart enough to see there's no evidence behind what he's saying, which is often true, sadly, of the US government, and that's why they lose credibility. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:16:45): I've asked this question of a number of guests, Caleb Moin and I think Dr. Gerald Horn and a few others that talking about censorship in the United States, engagement in censorship, that if you look over history, particularly since World War I, this whole idea of censorship really comes to a height when the United States feels threatened. And then once the perceived enemy is vanquished, then the whole focus on censorship tends to wane if not go away. And so I'm wondering if now because we're seeing heightened censorship, if that's an indication to you how threatened the United States empire feels? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:17:34): I think so. Yeah. Censorship goes hand in hand with war. War is the enemy really of democracy. And we've been in a state of permanent war since nine 11, and I think they've manufactured this new Cold War for sustaining the military complex police state, which has to go hand in hand with censorship. And we've seen more authoritarian forms of government, even toward the domestic population, heightened militarized policing in inner cities. We've seen the government stripping funding from vital social programs, and that's automatically going to generate more and more dissent and dissatisfaction with the government and living conditions. So they have to ratchet up censorship and more authoritarian, greater authoritarianism, and that's the only way they could sustain their power, and they've really lost their governing legitimacy. People, if you talk to people from all walks of life, whether in liberal areas, conservative, you find almost universally people distrust the government and they're not happy with the direction of the country, and more and more are speaking out. So they have to censor them and try and control the media and channel any descent they want to channel it and co-opt it. And that's why a lot of the media has been co-opted their CIA or FBI, infiltrators and media, even alternative media. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:19:06): In fact, to your point about people being dissatisfied with the direction of the country, if you go to real clear politics, those polled 26.9% believe the country's heading in the right direction. 63.4 believe that the country's on the wrong track. So again, I try my best to give as much data as I can to support the positions that are being stated so the people can understand that this is substantive analysis that we're providing because talk without analysis is just chatter, and we don't chatter here. Let's go back to your piece you write, Panetta said that Harris would fit the bill as a tough commander in chief to defend the USA against tyrants and terrorists, according to Panetta. Harris knows a tyrant when she sees one and will stand up to them, unlike Donald Trump, who Panetta suggested had coddled dictators such as Putin and effectively told them they could do whatever they want. Why is that exchange or that recounting by Panetta troublesome to you? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:20:18): Well, firstly, yeah, and the statistics you're citing indicate that many Americans are increasingly seeing their own government as tyrannical. And this is the kind of tired rhetoric we've seen over and over to justify these foreign adventures and unjust and unnecessary wars that further divert our treasury away from actually solving the problem in our society. And yeah, we see, Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:20:45): Wait a minute, and many will tell you, because I've been having this conversation for at least eight years, that that's the intent, that the objective has always been to heighten the sense of insecurity within the country so that social program funding social safety net funding could be shifted away from the public to the private military industrial complex. And they talked about this when Obama came into office, they talked about this, I know I have it backwards. When Clinton came into office, they talked about this when Biden came into office, they said the narrative is more subtle with the Democrats, but the objective is still the same. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:21:32): And the rhetoric, as you see, they're really attacking Trump from the right and they're positioning themselves as more hawkish. And that's why a lot of the neoconservatives have moved into the Democratic party. And William Christol, who this neo-conservative, intellectual, and a great cheerleader for the Iraq war, he sent out a tweet, Leon Panetta quoting Ronald Reagan at the Democratic Convention. This is my Democratic convention or a CIA director quoting Ronald Reagan. And yeah, you see from that statement you read, Trump is somehow soft on the Russian, but if you actually look at Trump's policy toward Russia, he pulled out of the INF treaty, which is a very good arms limitation treaty. He ratcheted up these sanctions from hell on Russia. He ratcheted up arm sales to Ukraine, for instance. He sold javelin anti-tank missiles, which Obama had up to that point hadn't sold. So he would not soft at all. (00:22:31): And he was plotting regime change. I mean, there's a lot of continuity in foreign policy. You see a lot of continuity among administration. So Trump's approach really was not very different from Obama. He's just kind of expanding on things Obama was doing. And then Biden takes it to a further level of provoking all out war and attacking Russia directly. So the rhetoric is meaningless, but yeah, it's designed to inculcate fear. I agree with your analysis that they just try and make us fearful and on edge whether it's of the next disease pandemic or the next threat. I mean, they're always playing up the threat of North Korea or Iran. I mean, look at North Korea. I mean North Korea was bombed back to the Stone Aid by the United States during the Korean War and the US pumps South Korea with weaponry and stores nuclear weapons there. I mean, obviously North Korea is going to respond. (00:23:27): I mean, developing a nuclear weapon is their only way to save their country and survive as a nation. I mean, they see what happened to Libya, but our media doesn't present it in that way, or our political elites, they present it like North Korea as some major threat to us led by this crazy dictator. But they give no context for why North Korea would invest in nuclear weapons or missiles and how a lot of their weapon development is just designed to protect themselves from the threat of renewed invasion and being destroyed again, that they were in the Korean War, but they never give the history of the context. So the public who believes that rhetoric as in fear of North Korea one day, Iran, another day, Putin is presented in the most demonized way, conceivable a totally kind of cartoonish way as this evil Hitler type figure. So we're supposed to fear him one day, and that's how they do it, and that's how they justify this huge military budget that's approaching a trillion dollars now. And yeah, I mean the government spends a pittance on social welfare programs and education and healthcare infrastructure. I mean, that's what the government should be doing, should be helping to create a better society, better living conditions here at home. But instead, they spend a trillion on weapons. And that comes back. And now you have the law like the USA Patriot Act and 1290 D program where all that Pentagon weaponry gets put into our police forces who become more like occupying armies in inner cities and their mistreatment minority groups. So it's an ugly picture. Yeah. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:25:13): You mentioned Libya, and I think we can tie this to your piece. You mentioned Libya, and people need to remember that the execution of Libby and leader Muammar Kadafi took place under the Obama administration. Hillary Clinton was his Secretary of state, and it was Hillary Clinton, and I believe Samantha Power that convinced then President Obama to execute Kadafi. And so if we understand a lineage of thought from Hillary Clinton, her predecessor Madeline Albright, she was a student of Brzezinski who was a Russia phobe. And so there's a lineage of thought within the State Department, and now we have to understand that Vice President Harris is an acolyte of Hillary Clinton. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:26:18): And Hillary Clinton is a very dangerous figure. And I wrote a book on Bill Clinton and I did a lot of research on their career bill's career as the governor of Arkansas. So I learned a lot about Hillary, and even from that time, she's very corrupt individual. Clinton was tied with the national security establishment. He oversaw a major covert operation in Arkansas to the Nicaragua and Counter-revolutionaries, and they laundered a lot of money through illicit Proceed, and they were bringing back drugs as part of these arm smuggling operations. And Hillary worked for the Rose law firm and was representing clients who were involved in money laundering in Arkansas banks. And she was always known as a hawk. So she very unprincipled corrupt person who was involved in also all kinds of shems to raise money for Clinton's campaigns that should have put her in prison. (00:27:16): And then she was always known as a warhawk. She evolved into a major warhawk. There was a very good article in the New York Times, the Rare Good article, New York Times magazine called Hillary the Hawk, and it surveyed her career going back to the Kosovo War. She was a big proponent of the bombing there. She supported the Iraq war, every war she supported, and her hawkishness came out on Libya where she was gloating after Kadafi was lynched. She gloated, we saw he died and she was so happy about it and giggling. And I mean that was a disgrace comparable to Iraq. I mean, Libya was a well-functioning country under CA's rule. I mean, he may have had certain authoritarian features, but he used Libya's oil resources to develop their economy to invest in education. I met a number of Libyans who were able to get free education abroad that Libyan government paid for their education abroad, and they came back to work to develop their country. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:28:20): Wait a minute, wait a minute. To that point, I was teaching at Howard University at the time, and I came across some Libyan students and I asked them who was paying their tuition and they didn't understand the concept of tuition. They were saying, well, wait a minute. Why would you pay to go to college? Help us understand. They could not put their head around Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:28:50): Paying Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:28:51): For tuition. And I believe, I don't think it's a stretch for me to say that at the time that Kadafi was the leader of Libya, that Libya was the most one of, if not the most stable country on the continent. It had one of the strongest economies on the continent. And Kadafi was developing his country, developing his agriculture. He was, as they called it, greening the desert. Libya had some of the purest water in the world, some of the deepest water, the water table. And one of the big issues was he saw himself as an African, not an Arab. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:29:36): And I visited Zambia, my ex-wife was from Zambia, and I visited there in 2007 and Kadafi came during my visit and he was greeted as a hero because he was using Libby as well, resources to promote development projects across the African continent. And he was seen as somebody who stood up for African and was carrying on the tradition of Pan-Africanism figures who revered in Africa like Kwame Nama and Nelson Mandela. And he was seen an heir to that tradition. And then he was overthrown and treated worse than a dog. And Libya has now seen the return of slavery, violent extremism has come into the country, just pure chaos. And a lot of Libyan have had to flee to Europe and then the European under perilous conditions in these boats. And then Europeans complain about immigration. I mean, they turn Libyan to a hellhole and the cost in lives, and it's just sickening. (00:30:38): And Clinton was just laughing all about it and thought it was funny. And I think Kamala Harris seems to be on that intellectual level. She laughs at inappropriate moments. I've seen her. She doesn't seem to have a good grasp of world affairs, and she's close with some terrible leaders around the world, like the Washington Post report that she has developed as vice president, an unusually close relationship with Ferdinand Marcos Jr. And he's the son of one of the worst dictator of the US support in the Cold War Fernan Marco Sr. Who looted the Filipino treasury and killed who knows how many dissidents. And his son seems to be picking up where the father left off. He jailed Walden Bellow, who's a great intellectual in the Philippines, who is running for an opposition party, and they're building up US military bases in Philippines to confront China. And Harris went to ink some base deal a couple of years ago, and there were a lot of protesters for her visit. But yeah, this is one of the dictators she's very close with. So she's following this imperialistic tradition, and yeah, there should be, well, again, a lot of people have left the Democratic party. They see no hope in it, but it's troubling when this is supposedly the more liberal and humane party and this is what they're doing. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:32:07): And folks, we're connecting the dots here. That's the purpose of this podcast, is connecting, linking dots, linking historic events so that you can see the trend, you can see the pattern, you can understand what's really going on behind the scenes. Let's go to Vice President Harris's speech at the convention. She says, as commander in chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world, and I will fulfill our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families. She'll always honor their sacrifice as she should, but the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world that now Jeremy seems to be really throwing good money after bad because the issue now, at least in terms of the geopolitical landscape, is economic. It's not militarism. It's the United States that seems to be using militarism as its only weapon. And I use that euphemistically against this unipolar to multipolar shift with the rise of bricks and the Chinese cooperation organization, their fighting an economic war with militarism. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:33:40): Yeah, and actually it was ironic that she made those statements and that week the New Yorker published these photos from 2006 Haditha Massacre where the US military massacre, all these Iraqi civilian, and there were these horrible photos you may have seen of children who had been shot by us Marines or soldiers. So having the most lethal military force in the world, what does that mean? You go into a country like Iraq and shoot up women and children. I mean, is this something to strive for? And then as you say, this military force is getting us nowhere. I mean, it's just causing backlash against the United States. I mean, yeah, look, in Africa, all these new governments have come in and they're kicking out the US military. They don't want the bases in their country. Like in Niger, for example, a huge drone base that was removed. And I mean Ukraine Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:34:40): Just recently, a couple of soldiers within the last couple of days were harassed Incaa. And Dr. Horn was saying that this is not an isolated incident, that when you see something like this happening on the streets of tur or as many still know it as Turkey, that this is an indication that the people are rising up, not the leadership, the people. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:35:08): Absolutely. And we see, yeah, the United States is a paper tiger. I mean, look at Ukraine, billion and billion, the weaponry and Russians are gaining more and more territory every day. It's reported that even as Ukraine is taking the war into Russia, Russia's taking more territory in Eastern Ukraine every day than they were before. Israel is doing nothing in Gaza. They just leveled the place killed. According to the Lancet report, now it's about a month ago, 186,000 civilians. Now they're attacking people in the West Bank, but they've achieved nothing militarily and the United States wars were all failure in the last generation. You have Libya. I mean, they turn countries into chaos, but it's ultimately they don't achieve the broader goal they set out. I mean, look at Afghanistan 20 years and they achieved nothing, and the Taliban came back in and it's just Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:36:04): Money. Well, Lockheed Martin and McDonald Douglas made a hell of a lot of money in Afghanistan. They achieved something. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:36:10): Yeah, that's all they Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:36:11): Achieved. Stock value went pretty high. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:36:15): And I think the public needs to channel their revolt against those company in the military industrial complex. Their hard-earned taxpayer dollar. They're getting absolutely nothing for it. People are getting killed around the world that weaponry has coming, being sent to us police forces after the military used equipment. It's creating a more authoritarian environment here. And a few fat cats, what they used to call merchants of death are getting rich. And there should be a revolt against those people because they've grown rich off the misery and death of other humans. And it's not a way to run an economy or society rooted in violence and just the wealth of tiny number off the misery of everybody else. And horrific weapon we've never seen in human history, the kind of horrific weapon they're developing now. It's unfit for humanity, and there is movements to try and get universal bans on certain kinds of weapons, and that should certainly be supported as well Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:37:17): In her speech. She also said, let me say, I know there are people of various political views watching tonight, and I know you know, I promise. Oh no. And I want you to know, I promise to be president for all Americans. You can always trust me to put country above party and self to hold sacred America's fundamental principles from the rule of law to free and fair elections to the peaceful of power. Well, when you look at the data and you look at the polling, an overwhelming majority of Americans, even Jewish Americans, want an end to the United States involvement in the genocide in Gaza. Now, she's saying that she promises to be the president of all Americans, but she and I put this on her because this was her convention, would not allow a Palestinian spokesperson, a representative of that position on the stage. Is that tone deaf or is it evidence that she's a Zionist and she's down with the, Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:38:37): Or both? Well, I think it's an illusion. They were trying to claim at the convention that she was working tirelessly for a ceasefire and for peace in the Middle East. And that's simply a lie the Biden administration has. It's been a joint US Israeli operation in Gaza. And we should recognize that Israel is basically a proxy of the United States empire in the Middle East that the US has used Israel. The reason they've given all those weapons to the Israelis over years now is that Israel has served the key function for the US Empire in the Middle East and accessing Middle East oil. Israel provides US military bases, and it does a lot of the dirty work for the US Empire going back years. For instance, in the six day war, the Israelis humiliated the US nemesis, Kamala del Nassar, who was like Kadafi, started as a pan arabist, and he was in the mold of Nassar who had moved to nationalize the Suez Canal and nationalize the oil resources and was forged alliances with Syria and forged the United Arab Republic with Syria and was promoting Arab unity so the Arab states could go strong in the face of Western imperialism and reclaim control of their chief natural resource oil. (00:39:58): And obviously the CIA tried to overthrow Nassar. They even sent in Kermit Roosevelt, a coup master who had been in Iran, but he failed. But Israel did the job in the sixth day war. They humiliated Nassar. And by that point, Israel was getting a lot of the US weapons already starred in the Kennedy administration where he basically opened the spigots. And Johnson was a huge supporter militarily of Israel. And Israel also carried a lot of covert operations in Africa that have served US interests, including countries like in Congo where they help access the mineral wealth of the Congo. So Israel has gone after the Assad dynasty was an enemy of the United States and West because they were more alive with Nassar in whose day and the Soviet Union, and they're more nationalistic so that the regime the US doesn't like and they've used Israel to Israel has been bombing Syria for a long time now and has tried to gone after Asad. (00:40:57): So these are just examples of how Israel does some of the dirty work of the United States and functions as a proxy of the United States. So the country basically are arm in arm together, and they may pay for public relations purposes. If Netanya has seen a bit extreme among some of their base or among some of the electorate, they may try and take a public distance or say they're trying to moderate his behavior, but I think that's more for public relations. They continue to provide him the weapons he needs, and they're not going to do anything. The last president who had a kind of even handed approach in the Middle East was to some extent with Dwight Eisenhower, who when Israel and Britain and France invaded Egypt, and after Nassar nationalized the Suez Canal, Eisenhower imposed sanctions on Israel and threatened why their embargo and even to punish Israel and the United Nations, but they would never do that today. (00:41:55): They're just giving cover and the weapons and diplomatic support in the UN for Israel's conduct and ethnic cleansing or genocide, whatever you want to call it. And I think they support the US imperialists support the project of a greater Israel, the Israeli far right that their goal is to expand the Israeli polity to basically remove the Palestinian and to use their land for broader projects, canal building to increase the water resource in Israel, access offshore oil. And the US supports that. Could they want a stronger Israel because that's their proxy in the Middle East and the US wants to dominate the Middle East and its oil resources for the next several generations, and they need Israel for that. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:42:46): We could spend a whole nother hour on this next question, but if you could just clarify a point that you made that you just made. You mentioned Kermit Roosevelt, you mentioned the United States going in and overthrowing Nassar, and you said they failed in, oh, you said they failed in Iran. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:43:09): Sorry. They failed in Egypt. They succeeded in Iran. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:43:12): See, okay, see that. Okay. Kermit Roosevelt and Norman Schwartzkoff Sr went in and overthrew Muhammad Ek and installed the S Shah. That's why I wanted clarification. I thought you said, and I could have misunderstood you. I thought you said they failed in Iran. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:43:32): No, and my point was they succeed in Iran, Kermit Roosevelt with a coup master. Then they sent him to Egypt to get rid of that thorn in their side, Albu master, because his pan-Arabism. But there he failed. Nassar was very popular, and he couldn't work the same magic, or they didn't have the right people to get rid of him. So that's when Israel stepped in and it was beefed up by us armed supplies. And in six days, they humiliated him and they provoked that war. It's been admitted by top Israeli leader than generals that they provoked that war. They humiliated Nassar, and three years later he died. And he was replaced by Anmar Sadat, who was much more west and abandoned his Pan Arab ideology. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:44:16): And also, again, this could be a whole nother show, but just quickly, you were talking about Israel being a US proxy, and you've mentioned this before, but I think it's folks, we're connecting the dots here, pay attention. We're connecting the dots. Ukraine is operating in a similar fashion as a US proxy in that part of the world as Israel is acting in the Middle East. And so because look, folks, the Ukraine war is lost. It's lost. And people say to me, Wilmer, you said that the war would be over in two years. And I was right as Putin wound up negotiating with, I'm drawing a blank on the Ukrainian president's name, Zelensky, vmi Zelensky. And he holds up the paper and says, we negotiated a settlement. The US sends in Boris Johnson to say, we're not going to accept this. The West will not. Hence the war is ongoing. Ukraine has no tanks of its own. They're now having to go into their prisons and empty their prisons to send convicted murderers to the frontline. They don't have an army of their own anymore. They don't have artillery of their own anymore. They don't have jets of their own anymore. Everything they're using comes from NATO and comes from the West. And it's a very same situation in Israel. Again, that could be a whole show of itself, but I just wanted to quickly connect the dots between the proxies in Israel and the proxies in Ukraine. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:46:05): And I would add the point that the United States and the people of those countries should understand, and I think this is American Jews should understand that the United States doesn't care about the people. They're using them for their own agenda. And look, Ukrainian has suffered terribly through their lines with the United States. They never would've gone to war with Russia, Ukraine and Russia got along. They had some issues, but they resolved it. And maybe the Ukrainian felt slight in some way toward the Russians, but they weren't stupid enough to take up arms against the Russians and annihilate themselves. But they thought because they had the United States and all these weapons that they could take on the Russians, and they made the same mistake as Napoleon or Hitler. I mean, the Russians are, I spent time in Russia. They're very patriotic people, and they will defend their country. (00:46:58): And this was a war provoked by the United States that basically used, and the Russians know this, that the US was using Ukraine, a battering ram against Russia, and they're going to defend themselves. And the Israeli case, look, the Israelis Israeli security has suffered tremendously. Now they're inviting attacks from all their enemies and they've shed so much blood, they're going to invite vengeance and retaliation against them, the security situation, very poor in Israel. I would not want to live in Israel, and they could invite one day their own destruction. Already, they've compromised the moral of their society. Israel was founded as a haven for Jewish people, and a lot of the very idealistic people were part of the original Zionist movement. I mean, the kibbutz was a concept of a cooperative model of an economy. But look at Israel today. It's this armed military state that is pariah around the world because of the atrocity that's carried out with support by the United States doing the United States dirty work. (00:48:05): And it's eviscerated its own democracy. I mean, it's become very repressive there. Journalists who are trying to report on what's going on in Gaza have been, I don't know. I think they've been certainly blacklist, if not jailed or shot. I mean, it's just a evolved, a violent authoritarian state. That's king of assassination. Mossad carries out assassinations around the world. It's hate and fear. It has an extreme right-wing government, this is not the ideal of a lot of the original Zionists. And a lot of American Jews are very uncomfortable the direction of that society they should be, and it could invite their own destruction one day. So I mean, that's a lesson you can take. If you lie with the empire, they'll use you for their own purpose and ultimately they'll spit you out. I mean, ask the Kurds, ask the Hmong and Lao, they've used proxies in other countries, and those proxies got totally destroyed like the Hmong and Laos or the Kurd, and they'll abandon them when it doesn't suit their agenda. They may find somebody else. And Ukrainian society has been destroyed. 500,000 youth have been killed. They don't even have enough people. How are they going to run their economy when all the youth of the country have been killed? Others had to flee. They don't want to fight the front lines. Yeah, they've sacrificed them as ponds in this war. It's sad. And Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:49:29): Lindsey Graham, Senator Lindsey Graham goes to Ukraine and encourages the Ukrainians to fight and to continue to fight. And let me just give you a quick analogy. Imagine a boxing match, and one of the cornermen is getting paid not for the win, but for the number of rounds his fighter engages in. And so that's Lindsey Graham, he's the corner man, his guy. Both of his eyes are damn near shut. He can't breathe. His lips are swollen. His head has all kinds of knots on it, and he keeps sending his guy out there to get slaughtered because he gets paid by the round instead of the knockout. Is that a fair analogy? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:50:20): Absolutely. Yeah. And I studied the history of the Vietnam War, and one thing I remember and I used to show students the TV history of the Vietnam War, and they had one, it was made in the eighties. They had one segment on the Secret War in Laos, like what I was saying with the Hmong who they used to fight the left-wing, Beth Lao and William Colby came on, was interviewed some years later. He was the CIA director. And he said, oh, well, that was a great project for us. The Hmong lasted 10 years is exactly what you're saying. Yeah, they lasted 10 round, but then they got killed. All of them. The Hmong were decimated, and they had to send, that's what the Ukrainians are doing, the hm. Had to send 14 year olds to the front lines. And a sea operative said, started to feel bad. (00:51:06): He is like, we're sending these 14 year olds on these planes to be killed, and I know they'll be killed. And I'm telling their parents, I'm patting them on the back and they'll be killed next week. And that's what's happening with Ukraine. And Graham won't send his own kids. I mean, if they're the real reading the fight, fight a war, you have to fight. If you're a real man, you'll fight it because there's a real reason your community's under attack or there's a real threat of Hitler. But instead they manufacture these wars and cowardly send and manipulate other people to fight and die. And that's the worst form of cowardice and manipulation I could think of in human society Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:51:45): As we wrap this up and folks we're connecting dots. And if you don't like what we're saying, if what we're saying makes you angry, as Malcolm said, if my telling you the truth makes you angry, don't get angry at me. Get angry at the truth. And you can look all of this up. I want to get back to your piece you quoted, and you mentioned this earlier, but Panetta quotes Ronald Reagan at a speech at the DNC, and he emphasized the isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to government. You write, Panetta ended his speech by highlighting that Harris was a good choice to reinvigorate American world leadership as she worked with 150 foreign leaders as vice president served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, worked closely with VMI Zelensky of Ukraine to fight against Russia. And you go on a number of things. You say that Panetta provided a litany, my word, not yours, of misinformation and disinformation in that part of his speech. How so? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:53:00): Well, I mean, the whole speech is disinformation because he has this mythical, romantic view of the killing of bin Laden that's not rooted in the reality. And then, yeah, he's claiming the US was an isolationist in the thirties, but the US was a global empire starting the late 19th century. And in the 30, the FDR had been the head of the secretary. I forget his position, but it was with the Navy, and he headed the Navy and he was a big naval enthusiast, and he initiated a massive naval buildup in the Asia Pacific. And then he historian believed that the key factor that provoked a Japanese counter response and led to the Pacific War. So where's the isolationism? I mean, it's not the accurate history, but I mean these conventions just about political theater. But I mean, yeah, quoting Reagan. I mean, Reagan is the icon of the Republican. That's not even your party. So what is he doing quoting Reagan? Reagan? Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:54:04): Well, he's Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:54:05): The thing that bar a right wing extremist. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:54:07): Barack Obama said that Reagan was his favorite Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:54:09): President. I know. And it shows how far to the right the whole American spectrum has been because Reagan, when he came up in the sixties, was viewed as a right wing extremist, certainly by people in the anti-war and countercultural movement. And his whole theme was to attack the mess at Berkeley. And the student, how dare they question the Vietnam War. And then when he came in, he veered American politics sharply to the right. He cut the corporate tax rate and he ramped up us militarism in Central America, and he wanted to avenge the Vietnam War. They call them Rambo Reagan. And you can't get, this is like an icon of militarism and fascism, and they're quoting him. So I mean, what kind of party is this? And we have two right-wing parties in our country. The political spectrum has shifted so far to the right, and it's created dystopia. (00:55:04): We're discussing here where we invest trillion dollars on warfare, these morally bankrupt wars. And our own societies is filled with pathologies and majors, social ills, and we never address them. So they grow worse and worse. And we're not investing in our youth and education. I mean, where I live, the teachers are so poorly paid, it is just a disgrace. And you have third world conditions like the schools. They were protests in my state a few years ago, and I covered those protests for local newspaper. And there were people showing me on their phone who taught in schools in rural areas. I traveled in Africa and third world country. Then what they're showing me is from a third world country. There were no proper sanitation in their school. There were not enough seats for the students. And these are high school teachers trying to keep them in school. So I mean, the government is failing its citizens, and this is Reaganomics 1 0 1, so we've got to get beyond that. But they're touting this guy as a hero. That's terrible. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:56:06): And again, I think this will be the final question, but the longer we talk, the more questions because of your insight, you mentioned that we're dealing with two right wing parties. Are we dealing with two right wing parties that are representing different interests of the right winging elite? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:56:30): Yes, absolutely. The GOP has always been rooted in the oil industry, the extractive industry, because their environmental policy is very favorable to big business and extractive industries and big oil. I think the military industry that hedged their bets now with both parties traditionally, like in the Reagan era, the Republican and the Reagan Republican got a lot of support in states that had big military industry. Like California used to be a center of the Republican domination and states like Arizona and the Southwest. But I think the Democrats under Clinton started courting the military contractors, and now they hedge their bets on both parties. I mean, there are a certain cultural issue, the right wing, the evangelical churches who were very gung-ho about things like against abortion. That's a certain spectrum that supports the Republican party. The Democrats go for this diversity, and they court the African-American vote, but they do so really based more on symbolism than actually delivering for the black population. (00:57:45): I think something that the black population, I think we'll see more and more than maybe leaving the Democrat. They're not getting anything. They're just getting the symbolism of some black elected officials, but they're not getting benefits to their communities. And there have been studies about this, and I heard Michael Eric Dyson, who was it? Yeah, it was Michael Eric Dyson came to where I live, and he gave a talk. He had done a study, it was him, it was, sorry, TVIs Smiley who used to work for PBS. He did a big study on black America in the state of black America, and he found it got worse under Obama, a certain core thing like income and business ownership and education because the Democrat weren't delivering on concrete social program that would benefit their community. So it's more of the symbolism and that's how they get votes. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:58:38): And as we get out, I want to read this quickly because again, folks here on connecting the dots, we connect the dots, we provide data to support statements made. You talked about the defense industry funding both parties and Dave Calhoun, who was the CEO of Boeing. When asked in July of 2020 who Boeing would prefer Trump or Biden Boeing, and this is from CNBC, Boeing CEO. Dave Calhoun said that he was confident that whoever wins the White House in November, whether it's Donald Trump or Vice President Biden will continue supporting the defense industry. I think both candidates, at least in my view, appear globally oriented and interested in the defense of our country. And I believe they will support the industries. They'll do it in different ways and they'll have different terms, different teams for sure. But I don't think we're going to take a position on one being better than the other. And Dr. Jeremy Komarov, that I think is clear evidence of the points you made that we're dealing with two wings on the same bird. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:59:56): Absolutely. And viewers can go to open secrets.com and look at, well-known politician where they get their money. I mean, look up Joe Biden because I've done it. You'll see he gets a ton of money from Lockheed Martin. And yeah, the Democrats in some, I think they're getting more, Democrats now are getting more from the military contractor because they're even more hawkish, especially on Ukraine. That's been a big boon for a company like Boeing and Lockheed and surveillance industry. So I think they like Democrats even more now. And Democrats are positioning themselves to the right and more hawkish on foreign policy and even the border. I have an article next week on the border issue. Democrats are more to the right than Republican as far as spending on border surveillance. And that's a big, big industry, border surveillance drones, and that's part of the military industrial complex. Dr. Wilmer Leon (01:00:53): So I said, this was the last question. This is the last question, and you can just answer this, yes or no, all this conflation of the border, whether you're Donald Trump or whether you're Kamala Harris, whether you're Joe Biden or whoever, all of this talk about the border building, the wall security systems, drones a lot of money on the border. They don't talk about the US foreign policy that is driving people from Columbia, from Guatemala, from Mexico to the border because the United States policy is decimating their economies. And quick point people, you can look this up. About three weeks ago, Chiquita Brands was convicted in federal court in Florida of sponsoring death squads in Columbia. And now Chiquita Brands has to pay millions of dollars in reparations and damages to these victimized families in Columbia. Kamala Harris isn't talking about that. Donald Trump is, you want to deal with the border, deal with the decimation of these. Why are, ask the question, why are Haitians coming here? Because the United States is trying to rein, invade Haiti again, Jeremy, that in and of itself is another show. 30 seconds, am I right? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (01:02:16): Yeah, absolutely. And there's no debate about that, and it's been a bipartisan in foreign policy that caused that vast immigration. And also you have to look, that caused the wreckage in those economies and societies, and you have to look at the free trade agreement. The Clinton administration promoted the nafta, and that helped decimate Mexican agriculture and forced a lot of the Mexicans to come to the United States. So nobody questioned the free trade laws. That's a big factor inducing immigration, including, especially from Mexico. So they ought to address revising those laws and creating a fairer world economy, but that might erode us primacy and the primacy of dollar, and they don't want that. So it's better to beef up the border, boost the coffer, the Lockheed Martin, instead of doing that, Dr. Wilmer Leon (01:03:10): Dr. Jeremy Komarov. In fact, here's one of the books. War Monger. I got it. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (01:03:17): Oh, great. Thank Dr. Wilmer Leon (01:03:17): You. Oh, hey, man. Great. Great work. Great, great work. Dr. Jeremy Kumar, thank you so much for joining me today. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (01:03:25): Thank you. Great conversation. Dr. Wilmer Leon (01:03:28): Hey folks. Thank you all so much for listening to the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wimer Leon. Stay tuned for new episodes every week. Also, please follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share the show, follow us on social media. You can find all the links below in the show description. Remember, this is where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge, talks without analysis is just chatter, and we don't chatter here on connecting the dots. See you again next time. Until then, I'm Dr. Wimer Leon. Have a great one. Peace. We're out Announcer (01:04:11): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge.

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Conspiracy Theory Or Not?
Douglas Valentine On The CIA As Organised Crime: "Shadow Ledger: The Unseen Hand of the CIA"

Conspiracy Theory Or Not?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2024 61:00


Dive deep into the shadowy depths of the CIA's darkest operations with "Veil of Shadows: The Hidden Truths of the CIA". Uncover startling revelations and bone-chilling secrets of an agency that operates beyond the grasp of law, cloaked in mystery and deception. Each episode peels back layers of intrigue, exposing covert missions and the tangled webs of deceit woven with the approval of the highest echelons of power. From orchestrating coups to secret wars and espionage, "Veil of Shadows" reveals a chilling portrait of an agency that shapes history from the shadows. Are you ready to uncover the truth? Listen if you dare.(00:00 - 01:25) Valentine discusses his extensive research on the CIA, noting it operates outside U.S. laws with Congressional, executive, and Supreme Court backing, enabling it to commit crimes overseas without prosecution.(02:03 - 03:28) He outlines the CIA's operation criteria: intelligence potential and absolute deniability, explaining that operations must be both potentially beneficial and entirely secret, with agents often disguised as diplomats, military officers, or businessmen to maintain deniability.(03:28 - 05:10) Valentine introduces his book and the Phoenix Program, a CIA initiative from the Vietnam War aimed at dismantling the Viet Cong's infrastructure through targeting civilian leaders, emphasizing the program's secrecy and its critical role in U.S. military strategy.(06:32 - 10:27) The Phoenix Program is described in depth, revealing its two-tier approach: high-level operations to turn Viet Cong leaders into double agents and low-level actions to terrorize villagers and dissuade them from supporting the Viet Cong, often using extreme measures like bombings and assassinations.(11:35 - 55:38) Valentine shares personal anecdotes about his journey to uncovering CIA secrets, his interactions with key figures like William Colby and Evan Parker, and the broader implications of his findings, including the alignment of CIA objectives with American capitalist and imperialist agendas, and the parallel he draws between the Phoenix Program and post-9/11 U.S. Homeland Security strategies.

The Opperman Report
Carl Colby : Son of CIA Director William Colby

The Opperman Report

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2024 41:23


Carl Colby - The Man No One KnewNov 1, 2022Carl Colby's father was William Colby, an American intelligence officer who served as Director of Central Intelligence from September 1973 to January 1976. During World War II Colby served with the Office of Strategic Services. After the war he joined the newly created Central Intelligence Agency.Carl's book deals with his father's conscience following his involvement in the Vietnam war.From a newspaper articleThe former director of the CIA in the 1970s killed himself because he was 'tortured' by U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War under his watch, his son has claimed.William Colby 'had had enough' by the time he quit the organisation in 1975 and was wracked with guilt over his actions, said Carl Colby.He later supposedly drowned himself on a solo canoe trip in a death that was ruled an accident by a coroner in 1996 - but sparked endless conspiracy theories.Book: The Man No One KnewBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Psychopath In Your Life
William Colby & John DeCamp *Is Omaha Nebraska a CIA child rape Central Location? Operation Phoenix/Vietnam My Lai Massacre, same crowd ran Franklin case.  Coincidence?  DeCamp & Colby ALSO ran Operation Babylift.  *Belgium  *Virginia  *Neb

Psychopath In Your Life

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2024


Production NOTE:  I added the banned show:  Conspiracy of Silence at the end, it is graphic but I want to preserve the audio.  The audio will help to understand this case and the characters involved.  In their own words.,   At the close of Vietnam War, there were children packed onto planes, where did those […] The post William Colby & John DeCamp *Is Omaha Nebraska a CIA child rape Central Location? Operation Phoenix/Vietnam My Lai Massacre, same crowd ran Franklin case.  Coincidence?  DeCamp & Colby ALSO ran Operation Babylift.  *Belgium  *Virginia  *Nebraska? appeared first on Psychopath In Your Life.

Psychopath In Your Life
William Colby & John DeCamp *Is Omaha Nebraska a CIA child rape Central Location? Operation Phoenix/Vietnam My Lai Massacre, same crowd ran Franklin case.  Coincidence?  DeCamp & Colby ALSO ran Operation Babylift.  *Belgium  *Virginia  *Neb

Psychopath In Your Life

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2024 123:38


Production NOTE:  I added the banned show:  Conspiracy of Silence at the end, it is graphic but I want to preserve the audio.  The audio will help to understand this case and the characters involved.  In their own words.,   During Vietnam there were children packed onto planes, where did those kids come from?  DeCamp […] The post William Colby & John DeCamp *Is Omaha Nebraska a CIA child rape Central Location? Operation Phoenix/Vietnam My Lai Massacre, same crowd ran Franklin case.  Coincidence?  DeCamp & Colby ALSO ran Operation Babylift.  *Belgium  *Virginia  *Nebraska? appeared first on Psychopath In Your Life.

Psychopath In Your Life
Did a MK7 Slave CONFESS to the murder of CIA Director William Colby? I have the confession in this show. How children undergo Trauma Rituals. Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips- Liars and Misdirection to trap MORE Victims….What is Revelation of

Psychopath In Your Life

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 217:34


Today’s Episode includes the story from a person who claims he was involved in murdering CIA DIrector William Colby. The Truth About Mark Phillips; Mark Phillips Was a HANDLER of MKULTRA SLAVES – Brutal Proof    My address is:  309 E. Klug Avenue, Norfolk, NE. 68701……. Information and map of transformers is here:  SMART Meters […] The post Did a MK7 Slave CONFESS to the murder of CIA Director William Colby? I have the confession in this show. How children undergo Trauma Rituals. Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips- Liars and Misdirection to trap MORE Victims….What is Revelation of the Method appeared first on Psychopath In Your Life.

Psychopath In Your Life
William Colby was the 10th CIA Director *Colby started with OSS.  Was he murdered?  Colby died in a “boating accident” days before testifying about Vietnam.  Why would they murder one of their own?

Psychopath In Your Life

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2024 105:18


 Why did they really murder former CIA Director William Colby? – The Millennium Report    Former CIA Director, William Colby, Killed in Boating Accident Days Before Subpoena to Testify that Missing POW's Worked for Secret Dope Smuggling Operation – HISTORY HEIST    The Man Nobody Knew – William Colby’s secrets told by his son Carl […] The post William Colby was the 10th CIA Director *Colby started with OSS.  Was he murdered?  Colby died in a “boating accident” days before testifying about Vietnam.  Why would they murder one of their own? appeared first on Psychopath In Your Life.

The Opperman Report
Carl Colby : Son of CIA Director William Colby

The Opperman Report

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2023 58:04


Carl Colby : Son of CIA Director William ColbySep 19, 2020We discus his OJ testimony, the alleged Bob Marley assassination, his fathers death, murder or suicide. The Phoenix Program, Watergate, Vietnam.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

American Exception
Episode 133: Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light w/Peter Dale Scott (Part 14) [TRAILER]

American Exception

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2023 13:23


Professor Peter Dale Scott discusses his seminal work on Indonesia 1965. He began researching the subject in the 1970's, with his research culminating in a landmark 1985 academic article, “The United States And The Overthrow Of Sukarno, 1965-1967” as well as a public event in which Peter and dissident ex-CIA officer Ralph McGehee debated the subject with retired CIA director William Colby. This is the 14th installment of the series with prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: “Tell Me” by Mock Orange

Out Of The Blank
#1427 - Donald Jeffries

Out Of The Blank

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2023 76:50


Donald Jeffries has been researching the JFK assassination since the mid-1970s, when he was a student volunteer with Mark Lane's Citizens' Committee of Inquiry. Don joins me again to talk about his book "On Borrowed Fame: Money, Mysteries, and Corruption in the Entertainment World" about the myriad of unnatural deaths which have plagued the entertainment industry since the dawn of Hollywood. Through this episode we talk about some suspicious deaths that weren't just celebrity related such as important figures like William Colby & Dag Hammarskjöld. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support

Who Gets to Decide?
Eps 0279 - Ex CIA Chief Implicates Biden Campaign in 2020 Election Laptop Intelligence Lie!

Who Gets to Decide?

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2023 39:57


Now PROOF has come to light that Democrats, not Russians and not Republicans launched schemes using intelligence agency staff to either create narratives or bury them in an attempt to shift election results to Democrats. It really is true that they are doing what they are accusing you of doing to them while they are doing it to you. Liers think you're lying to them and cheaters think you are cheating them. New testimony before the House Intelligence Committee directly links the Biden Campaign to a CIA Op to bury the Hunter Biden Laptop story before the 2020 Presidential, likely altering the outcome of the election. Wait...isn't that "Election Interference"? Join me today as we dig into the testimony and go back in time to show that this has been going on for some time. Jimmy Dore Show Audio ★ ✶

The Opperman Report
El Golpe: U.S. Labor the CIA and the Coup at Ford in Mexico. Rob McKenzie

The Opperman Report

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2023 48:06


CIA Documentary: On Company Business [1980] FULL [Remaster]Inside the CIA: On Company Business" PARTS I, II & III (1980) is a gripping and penetrating look inside the world's most powerful secret institutionalized police organization. This rare, long suppressed, award-winning documentary series broadcast on PBS in 1980 produced by the late American Allan Francovich is an absolute must for anyone studying the activities of the CIA 1950-1980. This Complete Series Includes PART I: THE HISTORY; PART II: ASSASSINATION; PART III: SUBVERSION. Ex-CIA Spies Phillip Agee and John Stockwell risk all to expose the CIA, and its anti-democratic, anti-union methodologies. Rare interviews with labor functionaries Bill Doherty Jr., Andrew McLelland and footage of Irving Brown and George Meany. See Richard Helms, William Colby, David Atlee Phillips, James Wilcott, Victor Marchetti, Joseph B. Smith, and other key players in a uniquely American tragedy of truly historic proportions. "Inside the CIA: On Company Business, one of the most important American films ever made, is a vital and dramatic examination of the CIA and US foreign policy.

Out Of The Blank
#1336 - Christopher Moran

Out Of The Blank

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2023 105:44


Christopher Moran is an Associate Professor of U.S. National Security at the University of Warwick in England. He is the award-winning author of "Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain" and "Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs, and the CIA" that draws on interviews; the private correspondence of such legendary spies as Allen Dulles, William Colby, and Richard Helms; and declassified CIA files, Company Confessions examines why America's spies are so willing to share their stories, the damage inflicted when they leak the nation's secrets, and the fine line between censorship on the grounds of security and censorship for the sake of reputation. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/out-of-the-blank-podcast/support

Something's  Happening Here  with Harlan Marks
Episode 15 - A Father's Day Podcast Or The Kelleys, a conversation with the children of an American Hero

Something's Happening Here with Harlan Marks

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2022 55:36


This is episode 15 of the podcast, Somethings Happening Here. It is our 2022 Father's Day podcast. In this episode, Harlan has a conversation with Barry, Erin, and Brian Kelley about their father, Colonel Brian J Kelley. Kelley, who was a spy hunter, served our country faithfully for over 40 years in the USAF & the CIA. Kelley became the hunted in the 1990s after he discovered a Soviet spy in the State Dept, Felix Bloch. Bloch was somehow tipped off when his cover was blown. That tipoff allowed him to cover his tracks. Incredibly, Prof. Kelley, (he also taught at the graduate level), the person who actually discovered this guy, was now suspected, by the FBI and the CIA, of being the person who tipped the Soviet/Russian spy off. So for more than ten years, beginning in late 1989, Kelley and his family were investigated, interrogated, surveilled, and their phones tapped. So, after more than a decade, and millions of dollars spent looking at him, the FBI and the CIA discovered that it wasn't Kelley after all, it was Robert Hanssen at the FBI. This is a compelling story. A family story. It's a story of false assumptions and group thinking. A story of patriotism and treason. A story of our times. Harlan's Attribution: This is a pretty complex story and I wanted to keep it on a personal level. To research this episode, I used information that is in the public sphere. So if you want to do a deeper dive here is a general sketch of my research. I used information from Wikipedia pages about the Hanssen case as well as Wiki pages that covered Col. Kelley's life, I used the website "The History of Spies", and Col. Kelley's obituary was found in the archives in the NY Times. The Times obit quotes David Wise, the author of “Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America” and I found his insights very helpful. I also used information about Prof. Kelley from the website of the "Institute of World Politics" the grad school where he taught. I also mentioned two films during the podcast, the film “Breach” which chronicles the investigation of Hanssen as well as his arrest, and Carl Colby's documentary “The Man that Nobody Knew”, about William Colby, the post-Watergate Director of the CIA. I also did some background reading about James Angleton, who was the chief of counterintelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1954 to 1974. Also, Barry references Bob Baer's new book, “The Fourth Man” which alleges there was a fourth mole that was never outed. Mr. Baer was a distinguished 21-year CIA case officer who has written a number of well-received books. I made a snarky comment about a reality TV show he did but make no mistake his service to our country is greatly appreciated by me. If you want to contact Harlan with your comments, questions, or suggestions about this episode or possible guests, you can email him at somethingshappeninghere.usa@gmail.com or hjmarks55@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/harlan-marks/message

DIGITIMESILLINOIS
Operation Family Jewels cia data dump

DIGITIMESILLINOIS

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2022 9:34


Family Jewels" is the name of a set of reports detailing illegal, inappropriate and otherwise sensitive activities conducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency from 1959 to 1973 William Colby the CIA director who received the reports dubbed them the "skeletons in the CIA's closet".Most of the documents were released on June 25, 2007 after more than three decades of secrecy.The non-governmental National Security Archive filed a request for the documents under the Freedom of Information Act 15 years before their release.

The Opperman Report
Carl Colby Son of CIA Dir William Colby

The Opperman Report

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2021 45:50


Carl Colby Carl Colby is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and President of Carl Colby Films, LLC. His production credits include films about Franz Kline, Willem De Kooning, Bob Marley, Frank Gehry, George Hurrell and Franco Zeffirelli, (an Emmy Award winner), among many other productions. He produced a series of HDTV films for Sony to introduce all-digital HD video to audiences wordwide. The Astronomer's Dream, Venus Unveiled, Jupiter the Giant and Destination Mars were produced in collaboration with JPL/NASA/Caltech. He recently produced and directed THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby, a feature-length documentary film on his late father, William E. Colby, former Director of the CIA, and the evolution of the CIA from OSS in WWII to today. Carl was born in Washington, DC, graduated from Georgetown University and lived in New York and Los Angeles before returning to Washington in 2003 to make THE MAN NOBODY KNEW. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The OSS Society.

The Opperman Report
Carl Colby Son of CIA Dir William Colby

The Opperman Report

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2021 45:50


Carl Colby Carl Colby is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and President of Carl Colby Films, LLC. His production credits include films about Franz Kline, Willem De Kooning, Bob Marley, Frank Gehry, George Hurrell and Franco Zeffirelli, (an Emmy Award winner), among many other productions. He produced a series of HDTV films for Sony to introduce all-digital HD video to audiences wordwide. The Astronomer's Dream, Venus Unveiled, Jupiter the Giant and Destination Mars were produced in collaboration with JPL/NASA/Caltech. He recently produced and directed THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby, a feature-length documentary film on his late father, William E. Colby, former Director of the CIA, and the evolution of the CIA from OSS in WWII to today. Carl was born in Washington, DC, graduated from Georgetown University and lived in New York and Los Angeles before returning to Washington in 2003 to make THE MAN NOBODY KNEW. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The OSS Society.

The Opperman Report'
Carl Colby Son of CIA Dir William Colby

The Opperman Report'

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2021 45:50


Carl ColbyCarl Colby is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and President of Carl Colby Films, LLC. His production credits include films about Franz Kline, Willem De Kooning, Bob Marley, Frank Gehry, George Hurrell and Franco Zeffirelli, (an Emmy Award winner), among many other productions.He produced a series of HDTV films for Sony to introduce all-digital HD video to audiences wordwide. The Astronomer's Dream, Venus Unveiled, Jupiter the Giant and Destination Mars were produced in collaboration with JPL/NASA/Caltech.He recently produced and directed THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby, a feature-length documentary film on his late father, William E. Colby, former Director of the CIA, and the evolution of the CIA from OSS in WWII to today.Carl was born in Washington, DC, graduated from Georgetown University and lived in New York and Los Angeles before returning to Washington in 2003 to make THE MAN NOBODY KNEW. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The OSS Society.

The Fact Hunter
Episode 86: Nugan Hand Bank & The CIA

The Fact Hunter

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2021 75:22


Nugan Hand Bank was an Australian merchant bank that collapsed in 1980 after the suicide of one of its founders, Australian lawyer Francis John Nugan, resulting in a major scandal. News stories suggested that the bank had been involved in illegal activities, including drug smuggling, arranging weapons deals, and providing a front for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Speculation grew when it became known that the bank had employed a number of retired United States military and intelligence officers, including former CIA director William Colby.thefacthunter.com

Instant Trivia
Episode 220 - Harlem Shuffle - American Government - Bill Shakespeare, P.i. - Retired Jerseys - Barely Alive

Instant Trivia

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2021 7:44


Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 220, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Harlem Shuffle 1: In 1954 he took over as minister of the Nation of Islam's Temple Number 7 in Harlem. Malcolm X. 2: "There is a rose in East Harlem"--nah. "There is a rose in" this other name for this area. Spanish Harlem. 3: Maintaining the Dutch theme, one of Harlem's major newspapers is the "News" bearing the name of this city. Amsterdam. 4: Duke Ellington could have told you that this MTA transport passes through Harlem before terminating at 207th St.. the A Train. 5: The regalia of this great dancer known as "Bojangles" includes a badge as honorary Mayor of Harlem. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Round 2. Category: American Government 1: When a minor breaks the law, his or her case usually goes to this court. juvenile court. 2: Kansas' 10-member Board of this has made news for its doubts about Darwin. Education. 3: While he rarely appears in the Senate, it's his job to cast the deciding vote when there's a tie. vice president. 4: This daily account of the goings-on in the House and Senate has been published by the government since 1873. The Congressional Record. 5: It's no secret that William Colby, William Casey and William Webster have all headed this agency. the CIA. Round 3. Category: Bill Shakespeare, P.i. 1: Impressive trail of corpses in this title guy's wake: the Dukes of Clarence and York and the Prince of Wales. Richard III. 2: Tailed this title kid to a balcony, heard his chippie say, "Deny thy father and refuse thy name". Romeo. 3: This title guy thinks his wife's cheatin'; says "She with Cassio hath the act of shame a thousand times committed". Othello. 4: Investigating a possible regicide by this fella; got his address, Dunsinane, but his wacked-out wife worries me. Macbeth. 5: Something's rottin' in Denmark and it's the 2 corpses of these courtiers; an ambassador tells of their deaths in 5.2. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Round 4. Category: Retired Jerseys 1: Los Angeles LakersNo. 33. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. 2: Miami Dolphins No. 13. Dan Marino. 3: He was so good-- and indecisive--that his team retired his jersey twice, in 1994 and 1999. (Michael) Jordan. 4: Detroit Red Wings No. 9. Gordie Howe. 5: This legend hit the rafters in 1993. Larry Bird. Round 5. Category: Barely Alive 1: The name of this condition comes from the Greek for "deep sleep". a coma. 2: If a patient is non-responsive and these openings in the iris are fixed and dilated, it's bad news. the pupils. 3: Defined as asystole, no cardiac electrical activity on the EKG is also known by this "level" term. a flatline. 4: Cleveland Clinic protocol says when this 3-letter order is given by a patient, there will be no chest compressions. DNR (do not resuscitate). 5: Patient has tachycardia! Oh, man, he's in V-fib! Charge to 360! Clear! while I use an external this device. a defibrillator. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Price of Business Show
Carl Colby- Emmy Award Winning Producer on His Personal Look at Former CIA Director William Colby

Price of Business Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2021 15:12


Subliminal Jihad
#27 - CONTRA III: Franklin [Part 2]

Subliminal Jihad

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2020 97:41


In Part 2, Dimitri and Khalid discuss Franklin victim Paul Bonacci’s testimony about the CIA trauma-based mind control project nicknamed “Monarch”, Hunter Thompson directing snuff films at Bohemian Grove, the suspicious grifter Michael Casey, and former CIA director William Colby’s curious involvement with John DeCamp and the “Conspiracy of Silence” documentary shortly before his mysterious death. [Warning: this episode features highly disturbing allegations of child sexual abuse, torture, and ritual murder.] For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Around The Empire
Ep 177 TDY and War Trafficking feat Doug Valentine

Around The Empire

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2020 67:59


Guest: Doug Valentine. Doug talks about his latest book, “TDY” based on a story told to him by a veteran of the Vietnam war who was sent on a covert mission related to the CIA and military involvement in trafficking. There is also a bonus segment about how and why the CIA uses trafficking for funding of covert operations Ep 177EXTRA TDY and War Trafficking.  From the book description:  “This novel by Douglas Valentine, author of the nonfiction bestseller The CIA as Organized Crime, is based on a true story, one told to him by a Vietnam veteran, and barely, yet grippingly, fictionalized here. “In early 1967, a bored, adventurous photojournalist on an Air Force base in Texas is offered a Temporary Duty (TDY) assignment somewhere overseas. The mission is steeped in secrecy, but Pete is promised a large bonus and hazardous duty pay.  The mission that unfolds is terrifying beyond anything Pete ever imagined.” Here’s what Oliver Stone said about the book: “I read it in suspense and found the last revelations after the mission even more disturbing.” Douglas Valentine is an author, investigator, journalist and poet. He’s the author of many other books, including  “The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam,” and “The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World.” He is well known for his extensive research and interviews of numerous CIA officers, former CIA director William Colby and others involved in the Phoenix Program. The Phoenix Program was a large operation that involved kidnapping, torture, and assassination. Its goal was the destruction of the Viet Cong insurgency, a political and paramilitary movement that worked against the United States and the US-backed South Vietnamese government during the Vietnam war.  FOLLOW Doug on Twitter @DougValentine77   Find his work at his website douglasvalentine.com Around the Empire is listener supported, independent media. Pitch in at Patreon: patreon.com/aroundtheempire or paypal.me/aroundtheempirepod. Find all links at aroundtheempire.com.  SUBSCRIBE on YouTube. FOLLOW @aroundtheempire and @joanneleon.  SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW on iTunes, iHeart, Spotify, Google Play, Facebook or on your preferred podcast app. Recorded on August 20, 2020. Music by Fluorescent Grey.

History conspiracy podcast
Operation Mockingbird - CIA and the media - William Colby

History conspiracy podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2020 61:28


Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early 1950s and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes. It funded student and cultural organizations and magazines as front organizations. CIA director William Colby testimony before the  Pike Committee. http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php THE CIA AND THE MEDIA BY CARL BERNSTEIN --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/art-mcdermott/support

Today in True Crime
May 6, 2020: William Colby’s Body Found

Today in True Crime

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2020 15:35


On this day in 1996, the body of former CIA director William Colby was found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, nine days after he disappeared.

Media Monarchy
#MorningMonarchy: April 27, 2020

Media Monarchy

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2020 63:58


Donation refunds, good Communists and whiz jets spewing colored smoke + this day in history w/the death of William Colby and our song of the day by X on your Morning Monarchy for April 27, 2020. The post #MorningMonarchy: April 27, 2020 appeared first on Media Monarchy.

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Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael
Douglas Valentine on With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century

Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2019 78:47


On this edition of Parallax Views, writer Douglas Valentine is perhaps most known for his controversial research into the CIA and its covert operations. His most-well-known work is the heavily-footnoted The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam, which attempted to document particularly chilling Vietnam War operation undertaken by the Agency as overseen by William Colby (who, it should be noted, served as Director of the CIA from September 1973 to January 1976). Valentine has continued to explored the terrain of covert skullduggery in such works as The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs, The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics, and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA, and The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World. It turns out, however, that this is only one accept of Valentine's work. He is also, as it were, a champion and author of poetry. On this edition of the program, he joins us to discuss the poetry anthology he edited, With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century. In the course of this conversation Douglas explain how he became interested in poetry and how poetry connects to his broader concerns, namely the promotion of humanism and social justice. Additionally, Douglas reads a few poems from the aforementioned anthology and gives his thoughts on the passing of Toni Morrison. And, during the intro, we fill listeners in, just a bit, on his work pertaining to The Phoenix Program. All that and more on this edition of Parallax Views! SUPPORT PARALLAX VIEWS ON PATREON! WHERE YOU CAN HEAR... PARALLAX VIEWSTHE WEEK THAT WASCURRENT EVENTSPROGRAM

Around The Empire
Ep 118 Foreign Intel, CIA & Epstein feat Doug Valentine

Around The Empire

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2019 61:22


Guest: Douglas Valentine. We talk about the CIA, foreign intelligence and liaison operations, Donald Trump and the Jeffrey Epstein affair.  Douglas Valentine is an author, investigator, journalist and poet. He’s the author of many books, including  “The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam,” and “The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World.” He is well known for his extensive research and interviews of numerous CIA officers, former CIA director William Colby and others involved in the Phoenix Program. The Phoenix Program was a large operation that involved kidnapping, torture, and assassination. Its goal was the destruction of the Viet Cong insurgency, a political and paramilitary movement that worked against the United States and the US-backed South Vietnamese government during the Vietnam war.  FOLLOW Douglas Valentine @dougvalentine77 and find his books, writing and archives on his website www.douglasvalentine.com. Around the Empire is listener supported, independent media. Pitch in at Patreon: patreon.com/aroundtheempire or paypal.me/aroundtheempirepod. Find all links at aroundtheempire.com.  SUBSCRIBE on YouTube. FOLLOW @aroundtheempire and @joanneleon. SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW on iTunes, iHeart, Spotify, Google Play, Facebook or on your preferred podcast app. Recorded on July 29, 2019. Music by Fluorescent Grey. Timestamps: 2:30 Clip from Andrew McCarthy interview on expectations for the IG report on Russiagate/Spygate, foreign intelligence and liaison operations 7:45 Origins of CIA, political police force, liaison operations, Trump and Epstein, gangsters, ideology based in capitalism, makes it possible for people like Trump & Epstein to thrive, anti-communism/socialism, patriarchy, system enables sexual predatory activity 14:00 Mafia is a model for capitalist corporate enterprises, CIA exempt from laws, all intel services organized similarly, CIA tries to shape social and political environment in other countries for US business enterprises 18:30 To control other countries CIA must control criminal underworld in those countries, Various tactics like sexual blackmail used to coerce businessmen and officials in other countries, partners with organized crime for blackmail, arms and drug trafficking 22:30 1980’s Donald Trump wanted to advance his business overseas, money laundering 26:00  CIA has intel on American businessmen and makes use of them to do its bidding in the US without conducting operations here, immunized and covered up by the national security state 31:30 Five directorates of CIA, directorate of operations has two parts. Foreign intelligence/liaison branch spies and recruits assets, partners with and bargains with foreign intelligence services.  41:30 Recruiting people to spy on their own countries, wittingly or unwittingly. Creates many “proprietary companies” including charitable entities and NGOs, intelligence operations under cover of civic action.  46:00 Assets like Epstein are expendable. Trump became president, so not expendable. Ghislaine Maxwell and blackmail operations. Operations will never be revealed because covered by national security laws 50:30 Women can also perpetuate the corrupt, patriarchichal system. Details of various spectacles aren’t very important in the big picture, as nothing will change until the system is changed Reference Links: John Batchelor Show 7/25/19: Durham and Horowitz aim to answer the hard questions about Spygate [and Liaison Operations] Book: “The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam” Book: “The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World” www.douglasvalentine.com

Around The Empire
Ep 108 CIA Warrior Class, A Heroic Myth feat Doug Valentine

Around The Empire

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2019 68:08


Guest: Douglas Valentine. We discuss the CIA warrior class. As Doug says, they “truly believe the heroic myth they have created about themselves… endowing the warrior class with the highest social virtues, while justifying the tragic consequences of their imperial marauding as ‘fate’”. Douglas Valentine is an author, investigator, journalist and poet. He’s the author of many books, including  “The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam,” and “The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World.” He is well known for his extensive research and interviews of numerous CIA officers, former CIA director William Colby and others involved in the Phoenix Program. The Phoenix Program was a large operation that involved kidnapping, torture, and assassination. Its goal was the destruction of the Viet Cong insurgency, a political and paramilitary movement that worked against the United States and the US-backed South Vietnamese government during the Vietnam war. FOLLOW Douglas Valentine @dougvalentine77 and find his books, writing and archives on his website www.douglasvalentine.com. Around the Empire is listener supported, independent media. Pitch in if you can at Patreon: patreon.com/aroundtheempire or paypal.me/aroundtheempirepod. Website: aroundtheempire.com. SUBSCRIBE on YouTube. FOLLOW @aroundtheempire and @joanneleon. SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW on iTunes, iHeart, Spotify, Google Play, Facebook or on your preferred podcast app. Recorded on May 18, 2019. Music by Fluorescent Grey. Reference Links: www.douglasvalentine.com.  

Richard Syrett's Strange Planet
145 The Murder of JFK's Mistress, Mary Pinchot Meyer

Richard Syrett's Strange Planet

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2018 52:03


Richard speaks with the son of a senior career CIA official about the unsolved murder of JFK's mistress, Washington D.C. socialite, Mary Pinchot Meyer. GUEST: Peter Janney grew up in Washington, D.C. during the Cold War era of the 1950s and 1960s. His father Wistar Janney was a senior career CIA official. The Janney family was intimately involved with many of Washington's social and political elite that included the family of Mary and Cord Meyer, as well as other high-ranking CIA officials such as Richard Helms, Jim Angleton, Tracy Barnes, Desmond FitzGerald, and William Colby.  A graduate of Princeton, where he studied American history under Professor Martin Duberman, Janney earned a doctoral degree in psychology at Boston University in 1981. He has been a practicing psychologist and consultant for over 30 years. In 2002, he completed an MBA degree at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace is his first book. 

Merchants of Menace
Episode 3: The Business of Murder

Merchants of Menace

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2017 28:15


Facing the possibility of going to prison for fraud, Frank Nugan offers big dollars to anyone who can compromise the Attorney General. Coincidentally or not, Mike Hand's army buddy and the bank's can-do man in Hong Kong, Doug Sapper, is approached to do a hit job in Sydney.Meanwhile, Hand is pushing deeper into the clandestine world, moving big money for the Shah of Iran and negotiating weapons sales. Fearful that the authorities are still watching the bank Nugan warns Hand and his military executives to cease such risky deals, despite his own staff still laundering money for drug dealers including the murderous Mr Asia syndicate.When a middleman between the Nugan Hand Bank and the Mr Asia syndicate is arrested, Narcotics Bureau investigators turn up at Nugan's office. That afternoon, Nugan calls his legal staff together and orders them to rid the bank of its illegal activities.This puts him at odds with Micheal Hand and his international executives, which now includes five former CIA officers and former CIA Director, William Colby, the bank's legal advisor.Frank soon finds himself dead. Is it murder or suicide? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Security by the Book
Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs, And The CIA

Security by the Book

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2016 37:47


The Hoover Institution's National Security, Technology and Law Working Group, along with Hoover's Washington, DC office, invite you to a discussion with award-winning author Christopher Moran as he digs deep into the tumultuous relationship between the CIA and former agents who try to go public about their careers. Hoover working group member and senior fellow, Jack Goldsmith will interview Christopher Moran on his new book, Company Confessions. Drawing on interviews; the private correspondence of such legendary spies as Allen Dulles, William Colby, and Richard Helms; and declassified CIA files, Company Confessions examines why America's spies are so willing to share their stories, the damage inflicted when they leak the nation's secrets, and the fine line between censorship on the grounds of security and censorship for the sake of reputation.

Hoover Institution: Security by the Book
Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs, And The CIA

Hoover Institution: Security by the Book

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2016


The Hoover Institution's National Security, Technology and Law Working Group, along with Hoover's Washington, DC office, invite you to a discussion with award-winning author Christopher Moran as he digs deep into the tumultuous relationship between the CIA and former agents who try to go public about their careers. Hoover working group member and senior fellow, Jack Goldsmith will interview Christopher Moran on his new book, Company Confessions. Drawing on interviews; the private correspondence of such legendary spies as Allen Dulles, William Colby, and Richard Helms; and declassified CIA files, Company Confessions examines why America's spies are so willing to share their stories, the damage inflicted when they leak the nation's secrets, and the fine line between censorship on the grounds of security and censorship for the sake of reputation.

Awkward Celebrity Encounters
Awkward Celebrity Encounters: William Colby

Awkward Celebrity Encounters

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2016 1:28


Awkward Celebrity Encounters: William Colby by Caveh Zahedi

Webcasts from the Library of Congress II
Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan

Webcasts from the Library of Congress II

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2016 56:54


March 7, 2016. Four of the most controversial directors of the Central Intelligence Agency -- Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby and Willian Casey -- are the subject of a new book by Douglas Waller, who did much of his research at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Douglas Waller is a former correspondent for Newsweek and Time magazines, where he covered the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House and Congress. He is the author of the best-sellers "Wild Bill Donovan," "Big Red" and "The Commandos." For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7246

Alex Exum's The Exum Experience Talk Show
The death of Antonin Scalia: Chaos, confusion and conflicting reports

Alex Exum's The Exum Experience Talk Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2016 16:40


The death of Antonin Scalia: Chaos, confusion and conflicting reports. Was there Foul Play?Mae Brussell | Conspiracy Queenhttp://www.spreaker.com/show/mae-brussellWhy Andrew Breitbart, Michael Hastings and Tom Clancy were Murdered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnqvMgyhgYIWhy CIA Director William Colby Was Murdered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XWVasQHGw8JFK: The Man From 2063 Perfect Paperback by Jack Duffyhttp://www.amazon.com/The-From-2063-Jack-Duffy/dp/1620241676

Alex Exum's The Exum Experience Talk Show
The death of Antonin Scalia: Chaos, confusion and conflicting reports

Alex Exum's The Exum Experience Talk Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2016 16:40


The death of Antonin Scalia: Chaos, confusion and conflicting reports. Was there Foul Play?Mae Brussell | Conspiracy Queenhttp://www.spreaker.com/show/mae-brussellWhy Andrew Breitbart, Michael Hastings and Tom Clancy were Murdered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnqvMgyhgYIWhy CIA Director William Colby Was Murdered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XWVasQHGw8JFK: The Man From 2063 Perfect Paperback by Jack Duffyhttp://www.amazon.com/The-From-2063-Jack-Duffy/dp/1620241676

SpyCast
Author Debriefing: Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan

SpyCast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2015 51:28


SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with author Doug Waller to discuss his new book Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan. The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, Waller tells Houghton the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had—Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe under OSS Director Bill Donovan.

Westminster Town Hall Forum
William Colby - Is The CIA Above The Law? - 02/19/1987

Westminster Town Hall Forum

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2015 59:57


William Colby - Is The CIA Above The Law? - 02/19/1987 by westminsterforum

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Radio Arcadia - Broadcasting The Return To Freedom
Episode 11 - What The Media Doesn't Tell You About Living Abroad @arcadiaeconomic

Radio Arcadia - Broadcasting The Return To Freedom

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2014 29:45


Welcome To Arcadia! 2014-7-3 Episode 11 - What The Media Doesn't Tell You About Living Abroad Former CIA director William Colby was rumoured to have once said that every person of any significance in the major media is owned by the CIA. And after living in a few different countries over the past few years, it's amazing to see how the governments have done their best to divide and conquer. but in today's podcast you get to find out some things they don't want you to know. Enjoy! http://arcadiaeconomics.com/

NWO3
13 - The Council on Foreign Relations

NWO3

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2012 53:20


The Rockefeller World, Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission by Andrew Gavin Marshall It is quite apparent in the history of America from the late 19th century and into the 20th century, that the Rockefeller family has wielded massive influence in shaping the socio-political economic landscape of society. However, up until the first half of the 20th century came to a close, there were several other large dominant families with whom the Rockefellers shared power and purpose, notably among them, the Morgans. As the century progressed, their interests aligned further still, and following World War II, the Rockefellers became the dominant group in America, and arguably, the world. Of course, there was the well-established business links between the major families emerging out of the American Industrial Revolution going into the 20th century, followed with the establishment of the major foundations designed to engage in social engineering. It was with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) that the changing dynamics of the Morgan-Rockefeller clan became most apparent. As discussed earlier in this book, the Council on Foreign Relations is the ultimate networking and socializing institution among the American elite. The influence of the CFR is unparalleled among other think tanks. One study revealed that between 1945 and 1972, roughly 45% of the top foreign policy officials who served in the United States government were also members of the Council, leading one prominent member to once state that membership in the Council is essentially a “rite of passage” for being a member of the foreign policy establishment. One Council member, Theodore White, explained that the Council’s “roster of members has for a generation, under Republican and Democratic administrations alike, been the chief recruiting ground for Cabinet-level officials in Washington.”[1] The CIA, as previously examined, is also no stranger to this network, since more often than not in the first several decades of the existence of the Agency, its leaders were drawn from Council membership, such as Allen Dulles, John A. McCone, Richard Helms, William Colby, and George H.W. Bush. As some researchers have examined: The influential but private Council, composed of several hundred of the country’s top political, military, business, and academic leaders has long been the CIA’s principal “constituency” in the American public. When the agency has needed prominent citizens to front for its proprietary (cover) companies or for other special assistance, it has often turned to Council members.[2] Roughly 42% of the top foreign policy positions in the Truman administration were filled by Council members, with 40% in the Eisenhower administration, 51% of the Kennedy administration, and 57% of the Johnson administration, many of whom were holdovers from the Kennedy administration.[3] The Council has had and continues to have enormous influence in the mainstream media, through which it is able to propagate its ideology, advance its agendas, and conceal its influence. In 1972, three out of ten directors and five out of nine executives of the New York Times were Council members. In the same year, one out of four editorial executives and four of nine directors of the Washington Post were also Council members, including its President, Katharine Graham, as well as the Vice-President Osborn Elliott, who was also editor-in-chief of Newsweek. Of both Time Magazine and Newsweek, almost half of their directors in 1972 were also Council members.[4] The Council also has extensive ties to the other major American think tanks, most especially the Brookings Institution, as well as the RAND Corporation, the Hudson Institute, the Foreign Policy Association, and of course, the special-purpose foundations such as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, of which fifteen of its twenty-one trustees (as of 1971) were also Council members, and its president from 1950 to 1971, Joseph E. Johnson, was also a director of the Council during the same time period.[5] The Council and the major philanthropic foundations have had extensive ties not only to each other, but in working together in constructing research and programs of study in foreign affairs. The State Department undertook a study of 191 university-connected centers for foreign affairs research, which revealed that the largest sources of funding came from the Ford Foundation (which funded 107 of the 191 centers), the federal government (which funded 67 centers), the Rockefeller Foundation (18 centers), and the Carnegie Corporation (17 centers), and that, “for eleven of the top twelve universities with institutes of international studies, Ford is the principal source of funding.”[6] These foundations, aside from being major sources of funding for the Council throughout the years from its origins, also share extensive leadership ties with the Council. At the top of the list is the Rockefeller Foundation, which in 1971 had fourteen out of nineteen of its directors also being members of the Council; the Carnegie Corporation followed with ten out of seventeen; then came the Ford Foundation with seven out of sixteen; and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund with six out of eleven board members also being members of the Council. It should also be noted that the Carnegie network extended beyond the Carnegie Corporation, and also included the Carnegie Endowment, the Carnegie Institute of Washington, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. From its founding until 1972, one-fourth of all the Council’s directors had served as trustees or directors of at least one of the several Carnegie foundations. John J. McCloy had served as chairman of both the Council and the Ford Foundation at the same time, from the 1950s until the late 60s.[7]

Mike Hagan's Radio Orbit
Senator John DeCamp

Mike Hagan's Radio Orbit

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2006 180:00


The Franklin Cover-up. website (archive) | Video Born in Neligh, Nebraska, DeCamp joined the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He was later assigned to serve as an aide to former CIA director William Colby, who was Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam at the time. Beginning his campaign for election while still stationed in Vietnam, DeCamp was elected and served four terms as a Nebraska state senator, from 1971 to 1987. In the May 2006 election, he was rebuffed in his attempt to return to the Legislature. He is currently a practicing attorney in Lincoln, Nebraska.