James DiEugenio

And the things is, Vance all but admitted that he made it up. He is a Peter Thiel lackey right, is that not why Trump selected him? Childless cat ladies and Haitian pet eaters?

That debate was really interesting in that it showed how much preparation matters. Harris even planned her opening when she walked over to Trump and said her name the right way. Trump did not get it, he just said his name in reply. And when she criticized his rallies, I mean he just could not handle that. But its true, people do walk out in many of them toward the end. Whoever planned her prep should get a choice of cabinet spots if she wins. It was excellent.

Was Nancy Pelosi smart in escorting Biden out? Harris is now only four points behind Trump in Iowa, of all places. The last Iowa poll with Biden, Joe was losing by 18 points. The amazing thing is that Harris has now put in play states that would have been given up on with Biden: Iowa, Texas, Florida. Trump clearly did not prepare for that debate. And it hurt him. When the candidate has to go out into the spin room?

This is part 3, and it deals with: 1.) the famous picture of JFK when he gets the news of Lumumba's death 2.) The murder--and that is what it was--of Dag Hammarksjold 3.) How Kennedy literally took over the Congo crisis as Dag would have wanted it done. Gullion cabled DC and said, it was not an accident. This is a disgracefully ignored subject. At the end I preview how it all changed upon Kennedy's death. https://substack.com/home/post/p-148860682?source=queue

Thanks Ron, and man where do you get the songs? What Prouty was doing with the disclosures about McCord and Butterfield is he was showing the hidden CIA role in Watergate. That is why McCord hated his guts. Boy Jeff put a lot of work into this. I think it was just him and Len doing it.

All you need to know is that McCord utterly despised Prouty. Every opportunity he had he slammed him. I think the reasons for it are in my review. About Prouty and McCord and Butterfield.

My review of Jeff Carter's new documentary on the life and career of Fletcher Prouty. Skillfully done biography of an unfairly maligned man who spent 23 years in the military, and several interfacing with the CIA, and did not sign a non disclosure agreement. The film reveals how Oliver Stone learned about him, and how that made possible the shattering disclosures in his film about Johnson's reversal of Kennedy's withdrawal from Vietnam. The MSM could not handle that so they killed the messenger. https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/review-of-fletcher-prouty-s-cold-war

I just remembered, the NY Review of Books also ran a long and interesting essay on Mexico City and Oswald. This was, IIRC, in the seventies, and it was, again, IIRC, co written by Bernard Fensterwald. Those were the days.

to your two points: 1. That is correct about him pointing out the obscene bias by the media against Garrison. And he was right, but did not know how correct he was. Phelan turned out to be a real government stooge in. more ways than one. 2. I don't think I can imagine something like this in the MSM today, at least not one this long, in depth, and honest. It tells you a lot about where we are and what happened.

Oh please. And Ben congratulates him. This is a clear attempt to hijack a thread for Karl's own agenda. Popkin's article was one of the best, if not the best, essay on what Garrison had developed early on. The only pieces I know of that can match it are what Bill Turner wrote in Ramparts. The only other one was Garrison's own interview in Playboy. Which is still worth reading today. What these articles did was, for the first time, go beyond the critiques of the Warren Report. They began to formulate an alternative to the LHO did it scenario. That alternative postulated that the Cuban exiles, in league with the CIA, had decided to take their revenge on Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs, and his failure to invade during the CMC. That alternative theory still carries a lot of weight to this very day. Though it has been augmented by a third force, the Mob as represented by Jack Ruby. And later on, Garrison did add them in. Richard Popkin did a lot of good work on the JFK case. His book, The Second Oswald, is relatively ignored, but I thought it was quite good for the time it was written. He was also the guy who alerted Dick Russell to who the heck Richard Case Nagell was. In fact, Nagell would probably have testified in New Orleans if he had not had a hand grenade thrown at him in NYC. Which he brought back to Garrison. If one reads this, one understands why the CIA and FBI decided to do what they did. Even though they knew Clay Shaw was Bertrand, was an intel agent, and he was lying his head off about everything.

To this day, as many times as I have written about it and read about it, this story is still shocking. In my opinion, it does not get nearly enough attention considering the horror of the crime, what the CIA did, and the immense aftermath of its impact. I quotes a very able writer on the subject, Jonathan Kwitny on the last. If we had supported Lumumba, which Kennedy wanted to do, the fate of Africa and Congo could have been much different. https://jamesanthonydieugenio.substack.com/p/kennedy-and-the-congo-the-battle

Here is a longer version of what happened when Sachs tried to reform the Russian economy after the successful attempt in Poland. Neither the Republicans under Bush 1, Or Clinton wanted to do what he had done in Poland. https://www.racket.news/p/a-true-shock-economist-jeffrey-sachs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8p9xl&triedRedirect=true Which proves my previous point, that the Neocons, by the late nineties had taken over both parties. The JFK of American University was completely forgotten..

Thanks to you both, and I never heard that song before. Ron, Part 2 will begin with an overview of Kennedy's policy in Africa and how it changed from Ike. Something that almost no one deals with. We will then get into the whole tragic fate of Patrice Lumumba. As Jonathan Kwitny wrote, he became the first modern hero in Africa by getting himself killed for his country's democracy. What most people forget, or do not know, is that he was freely elected and that was a republican government with a constitution. Per Kwitny, that could have been a great example for Africa. But Ike and Allen Dulles said, heck no. Patrice has got to go. And go he did. And they did not even tell JFK.

This is going to be probably a three parter at my substack. Its a relatively little discussed policy area which Kennedy broke from Foster Dulles on, re Lumumba. But I will go more into his whole attitude toward Africa. What LBJ and Nixon did in Africa caused not just a reversal but a disaster. https://jamesanthonydieugenio.substack.com/p/kennedy-and-congo-the-battle-for

Jeff is a candid critic of people like former Sec of State Albright who was well rewarded by Wall Street after her neocon tour.