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This 1992 "Creating the Green Peril" policy paper by Leon Hadar seems like an elaboration on the original 1982 Oded Yinon Plan-- the intellectual predecessor of the Neocon's Wolfowitz/Bush Doctrine. Yinon wrote for the Jerusalem Post, (like Hadar) and was a foreign policy adviser of Ariel Sharon. Yinon envisaged a plan to improve Israel's security by fomenting fractures of Israel's neighbors along ethnic and religious lines-- Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and, especially, Iraq.

Paul, I read an interesting paper on this subject awhile ago-- a 1992 CATO Institute Policy Analysis 177. The “Green Peril”: Creating the Islamic Fundamentalist Threat. By Leon T. Hadar (Jerusalem Post) August 27, 1992 Executive Summary Now that the Cold War is becoming a memory, America’s foreign policy establishment has begun searching for new enemies. Possible new villains include “instability” in Europe—ranging from German resurgence to new Russian imperialism—the “vanishing” ozone layer, nuclear proliferation, and narco-terrorism. Topping the list of potential new global bogeymen, however, are the Yellow Peril, the alleged threat to American economic security emanating from East Asia, and the so-called Green Peril (green is the color of Islam). That peril is symbolized by the Middle Eastern Moslem fundamentalist—the “Fundie,” to use a term coined by The Economist[1]—a Khomeini-like creature, armed with a radical ideology, equipped with nuclear weapons, and intent on launching a violent jihad against Western civilization. George Will even suggested that the 1,000-year battle between Christendom and Islam might be breaking out once more when he asked, “Could it be that 20 years from now we will be saying, not that they’re at the gates of Vienna again, but that, in fact, the birth of Mohammed is at least as important as the birth of Christ, that Islamic vitality could be one of the big stories of the next generations?”[2] Read the Full Policy Analysis PDF (103.18 KB) object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa177.pdf

My favorite Daniel Ganser quote... (Not sure if he coined it.) "All theories about 9/11 are conspiracy theories."

Quick question. Thanks in advance. Is the paperback version of the Garrison journals printed in a standard journal/magazine format? (I have difficulty reading small print on hard copies.)

Thanks for posting this, fellas. I admire Daniel Ganser's historical research on Gladio, which I first discovered in the context of 9/11 research. Sibel Edmonds related publications on the subject-- Classified Woman, and The Lone Gladio -- are also good reads.

And he should apply it to the case of the free fall demolition of WTC7 on 9/11-- a 47 floor steel skyscraper that was never hit by a plane. The last time I checked there was still a video on You Tube of Dan Rather's live coverage of the free fall collapse of WTC7, in which he correctly observed that it looked just like a professionally planned explosive building demolition.

Pure quackery that continues to be foisted upon the gullible American public, as we saw in December of 2017. The first iteration was, of course, Laffer Reaganomics in the 1980s. Then Clinton and the Democrats narrowly succeeded in raising the top income tax rate in 1993, with a Senate vote of 51-50 (with Al Gore casting the decisive vote.) As even Alan Greenspan acknowledged in his memoir, A Time of Turbulence, the Federal government had realistic prospects of paying off the $5 trillion dollar national debt in 2001, when Clinton left Bush and Cheney with a budgetary surplus. But the "supply side" tax cuts by Bush and Cheney in 2001 and 2003 were lethal-- causing massive annual deficits and a doubling of the national debt by 2009, all exacerbated by the Great Recession and the staggering expense of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The continuing surge in the national debt during the Obama years was chiefly a result of; 1) the Bush-Cheney tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, (which McConnell and Boehner fought tooth-and-claw to preserve) 2) the Great Recession, and 3) the Iraq and Afghanistan war debts. Yet, when Trump and the GOP Congress narrowly passed their additional "supply side" tax cuts just before Christmas of 2017, the media silence about the historic failures of U.S. "supply side" tax cuts (including the Kansas debacle) was deafening. IMO, it wasn't a mere failure of journalism. The tax cuts were immensely popular in corporate media circles.

I watched Parkland on DVD awhile ago, and I wondered why the film was ever made. As I recall, they also omitted the important story about LBJ calling the surgeon at Parkland to find out if Oswald had spilled any beans before dying.

Someone should nominate Steven Gillon for Brown University's distinguished E. Howard Hunt Fake History Alumnus Award.

I learn something new every day. Never realized that John Kennedy, Jr. and I both majored in American Studies at Brown. (I graduated from Brown in '79, the year John Kennedy, Jr. matriculated.) Brown had an excellent inter-disciplinary program in American Studies. As for John, Jr.'s knowledge of the circumstances surrounding his father's death, he must, surely, have learned a great deal from his mother and others. As I recall, Jackie always believed that LBJ was in on the plot to kill her husband. She also feared that her brother-in-law, Bobby, would be murdered if he threw his hat in the ring in '68.

Yes, it's truly a shame that guys like Arledge are still cranking out this kind of disinformation about Garrison's investigation of Clay Shaw, in 2019. There's no excuse for such willful ignorance (or dishonesty.) Someone should tell Arledge to get a clue and study Destiny Betrayed.

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Didn't J. Edgar Hoover have a sex tape of Gerald Ford cavorting with the East German spy Ellen Rometsch? Can't recall where I read that salacious story, but I was under the impression that Hoover had Gerald Ford by the short hairs during the Warren Commission "investigation."

I think it was Michael Wolff who first said, in Fire and Fury, that Trump had been effectively bribed by Sheldon Adelson, Paul Singer, et.al., to become an Israeli/Neocon mule. It was another 180 degree flip-flop by Trump on a 2016 Trump campaign policy "position," because Trump had been highly critical of Hillary and the Obama administration's involvement in the Neocon wars in the Middle East, including the CIA's Operation Timber Sycamore, to overthrow the Assad regime with proxy Sunni militias, including "Al Qaeda." It was the only policy position in 2016 where I agreed with Trump rather than Hillary. And Trump did, in fact, pull the funding plug on Timber Sycamore in July of 2017. Then, in a surprising reversal, in the spring of 2018, Trump had appointed the Neocon war monger John Bolton as his National Security advisor! Jimmy Carter presciently called Bolton's 2018 NSC appointment, "a disaster for this country." I'm not privy to the longstanding political disputes here between various forum members, but I do believe that DiEugenio's latest Kamala Harris history is timely and important. I interpret it in light of the role of the MSM in influencing our choices about viable alternatives to Trump, whose presidency has been, in my view, an unmitigated disaster for this country and the planet.

Not all politicians are similarly Machiavellian and psychopathic-- least of all Bobby Kennedy and his older brother, Jack. Bobby, certainly, believed that it was less than expedient to demand that Martin Luther King, Jr. be released from a Georgia prison, but he did so because he knew that it was morally right. Personally, I won't vote for a Machiavellian shark nominated by either party. I want a POTUS who has the moral sensibility and courage to break the CIA into a thousand pieces, or stare down Joint Chiefs clamoring for a nuclear war because he knows they're nuts.

Good point, but, in some cases, accusing a politician of showboating is more akin to accusing a shark of swimming. For example, Donald Trump invited women who had accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct to one of his debates with Hillary-- around the same time that Donald arranged for Michael Cohen to pay $130 K to Stormy Daniels. Trump is a shark. Is Kamala Harris a shark, or a fish?

Interesting to read Willie Brown's specious comments in Politico, in light of Jim DiEugenio's "Showboating" essay. It sounds like Brown is fully onboard with Kamala Harris's Showboat production. Perhaps people in the mainstream media should ask Willie Brown and Kamala Harris if they can name any white politicians who got elected 40 years ago for publicly advocating forced busing to desegregate schools. It must be a very short list. P.S. I was (and am) an advocate of desegregation, and lived through the first, tumultuous busing years it in the Denver Public Schools-- but it was not very popular in white communities.

I'm not on the Biden bus, myself, but I am concerned about the way our mainstream media is spinning the debate coverage of the alternatives to the Current Occupant. The last thing this country needs in 2020 is a Democratic nominee who can't compete with the Orange Baboon in the White House. When Fox Business News is suddenly promoting Kamala Harris, I smell a rat. But, getting back to the general forum subject of JFK, the candidate on the stage Thursday who reminds me most of JFK is young Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg, to me, seems to have the same kind of keen intellect, humanistic wisdom, and self-confidence that JFK had. And, to their credit, both men had actually served their country in time of war.

Well said, Joe. I agree with your take on the debate format. The simplistic debate sound-bytes were then simply amplified by the superficial media spin afterward. "Biden is in trouble," etc. One key point in the DiEugenio essay is that Harris (and the MSM) have avoided any discussion of the historical context for political discussions about busing and desegregation 40 years ago. It reminds me of people who denounce Abraham Lincoln for not being a more ardent Abolitionist in 1860, at a time when he was trying desperately to keep the border states from seceding. I think it was Daniel Patrick Moynihan who said that people need to be judged on the basis of their historical contexts and culture. As for Kamala Harris, if she is a true champion of justice, why did she put the kibosh on re-opening the botched RFK assassination "investigation?"

Excellent, timely commentary about Kamala Harris by James DiEugenio at the Kennedys and King site, folks. America desperately needs this kind of informed historical analysis, in lieu of the usual MSM soundbytes. After watching the debate Thursday night, I have had a sinking feeling about the mainstream corporate media's celebration of Kamala Harris's alleged "win" over Joe Biden on the busing/desegregation issue. To paraphrase Paul Krugman in 2016, it looks like Biden is already getting "Gored" by the mainstream media. Kamala Harris: A Study in Showboating https://kennedysandking.com/articles/kamala-harris-a-study-in-showboating

Well, that is helpful. Piper's theories about Mossad involvement in the JFK assassination seemed mostly speculative to me-- an extrapolation from the JFK/Ben Gurion conflict to some operational link between Jack Ruby, Micky Cohen, and the Mossad. Factual, operational details are largely absent from Piper's theoretical Mossad narrative. The same could be said about Laurent Guyenot's related theory that the Mossad had in some way hijacked the CIA/Mafia false flag op in Dallas in order to turn an assassination attempt on the POTUS into an assassination.

As I recall, (from Alison Weir's account) Truman felt politically pressured to sign off on Israel's declaration of independence-- a decision which was opposed by a number of high level U.S. officials, including James Forrestal, who believed that the establishment of an Israeli state in Palestine would be a long-term disaster for U.S.-Arab relations. (Forrestal went on to, diplomatically, jump out of a 16 story hospital window.) In contrast, James Angleton tended to view a U.S.-aligned Israeli state as something that would be strategically useful for the U.S. In his book, Final Judgment, Michael Collins Piper repeatedly mentioned alleged connections between the JFK/Ben Gurion/Dimona conflict and Mafia figure Meyer Lansky, (and Jack Ruby.) Collins claimed that Meyer Lansky was the real "boss" of the Mafia in the U.S., and that there was some sort of operational linkage between the Mossad -- Itzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin-- and mob figures in the U.S.-- Lansky, Micky Cohen, Ruby, etc. Anything to it?

Barr is a stooge, but he's a remarkably shrewd stooge. He was originally brought into the DOJ, from the CIA, by GHWB to arrange for the pardons of the Iran-Contra cabal. He executed that Iran-Contra hat trick flawlessly. Barr seems to have a knack for using the power of the DOJ to protect people in the Executive branch who have broken the law.

I saw this story last year. * (Can't vouch for the source) A newly declassified document revealed that the CIA had, in fact, funded the opposition South Vietnamese military officials who murdered Diem. So, it's a bit confusing. Did the CIA and Joint Chiefs really oppose the coup d'etat that Harriman and Lodge wanted? One thing that seems certain is that JFK was shocked and appalled when he learned that Diem had been murdered. He abruptly left the room after hearing the news. As I recall, From Prouty's writings, General Ed Lansdale (USAF/CIA) had wanted JFK to appoint him Ambassador to Saigon. Instead, Lodge was appointed and Lansdale was recalled to Washington (and, eventually, assigned to oversee Operation Mongoose.) * https://intelnews.org/2018/04/30/01-2314/ Report reveals deeper CIA role in 1963 Vietnam coup and Diem’s assassination April 30, 2018 A newly declassified report by the Inspector General of the United States Central Intelligence Agency reveals that the South Vietnamese generals who overthrew President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 used CIA money “to reward opposition military who joined the coup”. Acknowledging that “the passing of these funds is obviously a very sensitive matter”, the CIA Inspector General’s report contradicts the sworn testimony of Lucien E. Conein, the CIA liaison with the South Vietnamese generals. In 1975, Conein told a United States Senate committee that the agency funds, approximately $70,000 or 3 million piasters, were used for food, medical supplies, and “death benefits” for the families of South Vietnamese soldiers killed in the coup. The report (.pdf), one of the 19,000 JFK assassination documents released by the US National Archives on Thursday, also contains new details about the South Vietnamese generals’ decision to assassinate Diem that contradict a conclusion of the coup’s history written by the CIA station in Saigon. The majority of the generals, said the CIA at the time, “desired President Diem to have honorable retirement from the political scene in South Vietnam and exile”. According to a newly declassified portion of the 49-page document written by the CIA’s Inspector General, an unidentified field-grade South Vietnamese officer who provided the CIA station with pictures of the bloodied bodies of Diem and his brother and advisor, Ngo Dinh Nhu, said that “most of the generals” favored their immediate execution: “The ultimate decision was to kill them. A Captain Nhung was designated as executioner”. A redacted version of the Inspector General’s report, dated May 31, 1967, was released by the National Archives in November 2017. In that version of the report, the paragraphs related to the use of CIA funds and the generals’ decision to murder Diem were excised. * William J. Rust is the author of four books about US relations with Southeast Asia countries during the cold war, including Kennedy in Vietnam. He is currently completing a book about US relations with Indonesia.