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Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould are the authors of Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story and Crossing Zero The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire and The Voice,a novel. Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team began working together in 1979 co-producing a documentary for Paul's television show, Watchworks. Called, The Arms Race and the Economy, A Delicate Balance, they found themselves in the midst of a controversy that was to boil over a few months later with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Their acquisition of the first visas to enter Afghanistan granted to an American TV crew in 1981, brought them into the most heated Cold War controversy since Vietnam. But the people inside Soviet-occupied Afghanistan told a very different story from the one being broadcast on the evening news. Following their news story for the CBS Evening News, they produced a documentary (Afghanistan Between Three Worlds) for PBS and in 1983 they returned to Kabul for ABC Nightline with Harvard Negotiation project director Roger Fisher. Arriving in Kabul that spring they were told that the Russians wanted to go home and negotiate their way out. But the story that President Carter called, "the greatest threat to peace since the second World War" had already been written by America's pundits was not about to change the script. As the first American journalists to get behind the official propaganda on the war, they not only got a view of an unseen Afghan life, but a revelatory look at how the US defined itself under the veil of superpower confrontation. But as they pursued the reasons behind the propaganda, they were drawn into a story that was growing into mythic dimensions. It was at the time of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 when they were working on the film version of their experience under contract to Oliver Stone, that they began to piece together the mythic implications of the story. During the research for the screenplay crucial documents were declassified. Over the next decade they trailed a labyrinth of clues to find a likeness in Washington's official policy towards Afghanistan - in the ancient Zoroastrian war of the light against the dark - whose origins began in the region now known as Afghanistan. It was a likeness that grows more visible as America's involvement deepens. By 1998, as the horrors of the Taliban regime began to grab headlines, they started collaborating with Afghan human rights expert Sima Wali. They contributed to the Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future book project. In 2002 they filmed Wali's first return to Kabul since her exile in 1978. The film they produced about Wali's journey home, The Woman in Exile Returns, gave audiences the chance to discover the message of one of Afghanistan's most articulate voices and her hopes for her people. In the years since 9/11 much has happened to bring their story into sharp focus. Their experience at combining personal diplomacy with activist journalism could become a model for restoring a healthy and vibrant dialogue to American democracy. Ultimately, Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story lays bare why it was inevitable that the Soviet Union and the U.S. should end up in Afghanistan and what that means to the future of the American emp

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Boris Yeltsin gets the last laugh  when he picked Vladimir Putin to become president.   (Putin taking the Presidential Oath, 7 May 2000), From ImagesAttr
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 13, 2018
Part 1: It's been done to Russia before but this time will be the last If Stanley Fischer, a man who helped bring about a de facto criminal-privatization-fraud to post-empire Russia says the U.S. is on a dangerous course, the time has arrived for Americans to ask what role Stanley Fischer played in putting the U.S. on that dangerous course. Unknown to Americans is the blunt force trauma Fischer and the Harvard Project delivered to Russia under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin during the 1990s.
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence  (Lawrence of Arabia) 1919, From ImagesAttr
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Part 1: How the Neocon dream for everlasting Hegemony turned America into a nightmare A straight line can be drawn between today's political hysteria and the 1970s era of right-wing Soviet hysteria as Russia stands accused of "meddling" in American democracy. And then there is that hidden "meddler" behind the meddling; Britain. The extent of British meddling in America since the early 20th century would shock even the most devout cheerleaders of ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele and his "dirty dossier".
Master imperialist Zbigniew Brzezinski, From Images
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 4, 2015
America Pivots to Brzezinski's Delusion of Eurasian Conquest "We are, and I don't want to sound alarmist but I am alarmed, closer to the actual possibility of war with Russia than we have ever been since the Cuban missile crisis. That's how bad it's been." (Stephen Cohen)
Cover of the 1550 edition of Machiavelli's Il Principe and La Vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca., From ImagesAttr
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 1, 2017
Part 4 -- The Final Stage of the Machiavellian Elites' Takeover of America The CIA would come to view the Congress for Cultural Freedom beginning with the 1950 Berlin conference to be a landmark in the Cold War not just for solidifying the CIA's control over the non-Communist left and the West's "free" intellectuals, but for enabling the CIA to secretly disenfranchise Europeans and Americans from their own political culture in such a way they would never really know it.
Japanese Peace Bell and its pagoda at United Nations Headquarters, NYC, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 4, 2023
THE UN 2024 EQUINOX EARTH DAY EVENT; a tribute to Earth Rights Economics of Justice and Peace Gifts of nature can be shared. The solution is a finance policy that removes taxes from labor and production and shifts it to unearned income from land and natural resources. Neoliberal economics was created by elites who paid universities to teach two-factor economics, labor and capital, and made land a subset of capital. This intellectual crime obfuscated the teachings of Henry George's economic justice. Let's bring it back.
(23 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 1, 2016
America, an Empire in Twilight Part I of a series. No matter who is labeled president after the election, the crisis this process has created for most Americans will not be over. It will be like no other moment in all of America's history. Now is the time to look back into the past and connect those events that have led us to this most strange and significant moment. We'll start with the day America's leadership lost all consciousness.
British imperialist Cecil Rhodes was the consummate empire builder. The Rhodes Scholarship continues its influence on American thinking to this day., From ImagesAttr
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Part 7: The Coup d'e'tat -- Continuing his coup d'e'tat in Washington, Brzezinski and his military assistant General William Odom proceeded with plans for the radical transformation of America's nuclear doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction -- MAD (directed mainly at the Soviet Union) into one of nuclear "war-fighting" through a series of Presidential Directives.
(21 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 3, 2016
Part IV: America's Late Stage Imperial Dementia: Dubbed the "Twilight Lords" for their final role as the last doomed, feudal barons of Ireland, the Fitzgeralds' struggle against the Elizabethans offers a window into a thousand year struggle of a European "deep state" that exploded openly in Ireland in the 16th century before spreading to the four corners of the earth through British imperial expansion and now is causing mayhem in Washington. Series Part IV
The Safari Club; a 'supranational' private intelligence agency formed in 1976 to create a 'second CIA' to operate covertly., From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 24, 2018
Part 4: How the Safari Club became the real CIA The Safari club represented the true essence of what CIA Director Allen Dulles had intended when setting up the Central Intelligence Agency following World War II; an autonomous covert action organization with global reach, beyond the jurisdiction of American democracy and responsible to no one.
President John F. Kennedy at the 'Parking Lot Rally,' Friday morning, 22 November 1963, Fort Worth, Texas, outside of the Hotel Texas, From Uploaded
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 18, 2023
The JFK Assassination--60 years on Nov. 22, 2023: Moving beyond his Death to the Resurrection of JFK's World Peace Plan We traced our Fitzgerald family history back 1000 years to the end of the Fitzgerald rule in Ireland when they were defeated by the forces of Elizabeth I in 1583; that also marked the beginning of the British Empire. We identified that history as "Mystical Imperialism," a philosophy that rationalized empire by infusing the divine into empire building. We'll present that research at the JFK Assassination Conference on Nov. 17.
MK-ULTRA was the name for an illegal CIA research program (1950s through 1960s) that used citizens, without consent, as test subjects to manipulate mental states using drugs, deprivation and sexual abuse., From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Why did Master Spy Robert Moss Secretly become a Dream Coach Guru? There is no mention on Moss's website that before he turned to dream work he was a prote'ge' of notorious CIA and MI6 operative Brian Crozier. Along with the CIA and MI6, Moss left a high level and successful career as a master propagandist (i.e. an expert in lying) working for the Institute for the Study of Conflict ( ISC) and Forum World Features , a London based CIA propaganda news service which operated from 1965 to 1974.
Cover of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West first published in 1918. Many denied that Spengler's prediction was true., From ImagesAttr
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 21, 2017
Part 2: The West is Disintegrating Democracy and freedom of expression are under attack. There is blood in the streets. How did it get that way? Where did it come from, what are its sources and what continues to drive it? This four-part series will look at the origin of those sources and unlock connections that when understood should open doors of perception that have been locked shut for far too long.
NYC firefighter looks up at remnent of the  World Trade Tower, From ImagesAttr
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 9, 2016
Part I--Psychological Warfare and the American Mind Looking back on the carnage of the last 15 years it's easy to see the psychological changes in America. What's not easy to see is how a longstanding campaign of covert psychological warfare built up since the early days of World War II had made the slow destruction of American democracy and the ascension of rule by secrecy inevitable, long before the planes ever left the runway on 9/11.
A 2011 production of HAIR; the wildly popular 1968 anti-war American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. Was the CIA behind HAIR too?, From ImagesAttr
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We're all CIA assets! What can be done, a personal story In view of current New Cold War plans to mount a full-scale global war against China and Russia, Americans need to look back and reconsider the turning points that brought our country to this crossroads. How did we as Americans come from being so much against war in Vietnam in the 1960s into preparing for a world war against just about everyone on the planet today? The CIA sabotaged the anti-war movement through its music.
Tricksters have embraced life's paradoxes by creating coherence through confusion and disorder to get to the truth. Neocons use Trickster tactics that never lead to coherence., From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Part 4: Ceaseless Propaganda, Outright Lies and Distorted Facts Democracy and freedom of expression are under attack. There is blood in the streets. How did it get that way? Where did it come from, what are its sources and what continues to drive it? This four part series will look at the origin of those sources and unlock connections that when understood should open doors of perception that have been locked shut for far too long.
The Conjurer by Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1450--1516), From ImagesAttr
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The End of Illusion for America Understanding the forces that drive Washington's quest for empire may appear on the surface to be limited to money and power. But when it comes to the ultimate objectives of the so called Anglo/American "deep state" the foundations of today's realities may be better explained by looking into the deep past.
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Part III--Psychological Warfare and the American Mind The MSM was setting the public up prior to the 1979 Soviet invasion citing Brzezinski predicting they would move towards the Persian Gulf for the oil based on the CIA memo, "The Impending Soviet Oil Crisis," that was propaganda. Brzezinski wanted the Soviets in Afghanistan as part of his plan for the conquest of Eurasia and used psychological warfare to convince Americans that the Soviets wanted world domination with no facts.
A front view of Newgrange, County Meath Ireland, From Uploaded
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How the Mysticism of Newgrange Pulled us into its Vortex I knew that returning to Ireland would complete something I'd started when I'd first visited there back in 1971. But it wasn't until we were directed to Newgrange by another Fitzgerald from the same village as my family on the other side of Ireland did I realize--that something--was far more profound than anything I'd experienced in my lifetime.
Nazi official Hermann Göring in jail cell Nuremberg Trials 1945, From ImagesAttr
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 11, 2016
Part II -- Psychological Warfare & the American Mind America's coordinated use of psychological warfare began in earnest during World War II and has grown and expanded into public relations, advertising, cinema, radio and television, electronic video games and now social media. Its pro-war boosterism extends over sports, religion, education, news and entertainment to form a seamless electronic cocoon-like web.
Robert Moss became a dream teacher starting in 1987 after leaving a career as an intelligence operative with the CIA, MI6, ISC and membership in the Pinay Cercle., From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Part 5: Brzezinski's Safari Club "Friends" Did the Dirty Work Behind the Scenes The Frankenstein political monster emerging to thwart Dubs' plan for Afghanistan could only have come from Brzezinski's ethnic experiment called the Nationalities Working Group. But the rise of the neoconservatives following the Vietnam War had brought with it an ethnic strategy that put Muslim extremists together with European and Middle Eastern racketeers - fed by a Trotskyist hatred for all things Russian.
President Truman and Winston Churchill heading to Missouri for Churchill's 1946
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 15, 2016
Part IV -- Psychological Warfare and the American Mind Since World War II, Americans have been lulled into accepting a messianic 19th-century British Imperial agenda. One key British agent in the psychological war for American public opinion was RAF pilot Roald Dahl who, along with James Bond creator Ian Fleming, playwright Noel Coward and Gallup pollster David Ogilvy, were given free rein to propagandize "the natives" (Americans) through whatever means possible.
The Valediction Resurrection Cover, From Uploaded
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 17, 2023
1000 Years of Secrets Exposed Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould fascinating conversation that starts with The Norman conquest of England in 1066, traveling up to the rebellious outpost of Ireland, and ends with the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK).
Satan before the Lord, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 24, 2018
Part 3: How U.S. foreign policy was directed by a diabolical, London-backed, private neoconservative/right-wing alliance It was the presidency of James Earl Carter and not Ronald Reagan that opened the door to the rise of Islamic extremism, the sellout of the middle class and the disenfranchisement of America's constitutional values.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 19, 2016
Part V -- Psychological Warfare and the American Mind In 1947 the creation of President Truman's covert national security government would transfer of power from the Congress, the courts and the Presidency to a concealed "Trumanite network" of military managers, diplomatic, intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Zbigniew Brzezinski came to power through the "Trumanite network." Ronald Reagan's 1980 election would renew its power and America would never be the same.
Eclipses affect endings while opening new beginnings. This total solar eclipse occurred in 1999 by Luc Viatour  https://lucnix.be/, From ImagesAttr
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Part 1: Darkness at Noon Democracy and freedom of expression are under attack. There is blood in the streets. How did it get that way? Where did it come from, what are its sources and what continues to drive it? In this four part series we'll look at the origin of those sources and unlock connections that when understood should open doors of perception that have been locked shut for far too long.
The British were urging men to enlist to fight in WWI and secretly forcing President Wilson to enter the war against the will of the American people, From ImagesAttr
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Part 1: MI6 intelligence has always been an anti-Soviet/Russian "Rumor Factory" In 1974 Britain's intelligence services plotted the overthrow of their own elected government in London which they had convinced themselves with their own lies had been infiltrated and subverted by KGB agents from Moscow whom they, themselves had invented.
Eternal flame at the Grave of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Arlington National Cemetery, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 6, 2023
*The Economic Justice and World Peace Proposal* Violence begets violence, war begets more wars. These facts have been known to generations before our time and we should not have to learn this horrible truth again. Events have been forgotten by history and covered up by administrations. Old angers and hatreds have been instilled in new generations. We cannot continue in this manner and survive as a people. We must face the facts and put our minds to diffusing the crisis.
Common Sense: A tormented bear is far more dangerous than one you make friends with!, From ImagesAttr
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PART 2: The post WWII strategy of the neocons has been shaped by Russo phobia against the Soviet Union and now Russia U.S. support for Israel, its neoconservative backers and its dedicated anti-Russian bias has a long and complicated history dating back before Theodor Herzl's19th century Zionist Project. Zionism was not instilled in American thinking by Jews but by 16th and 17th century British Puritans whose mission was to reestablish an ancient Kingdom of Israel and fulfill biblical prophecy based on the King James Version of the bible.
Ouroboros Perpetual Motion Machine, From Uploaded
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The Hegelian Dialectic is a Mental Trap that only leads to Self-annihilation The system of designed social conflict to break down individual rights was spelled out by Hegel himself when he said: "'...the State' has the supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State... for the right of the world spirit is above all special privileges."
Purt Castle Abbeyleale, Ireland   Home of Desmond Earl Gerald before his death in 1583 and Lough Gur, Birthlake of the Magical Earl Gerald who will rise to help JFK's spirit return, From Uploaded
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THE CASE OF JFK AND THE FITZGERALDS (Speech delivered Nov.17, 2023 at The JFK Assassination 60 Years Later Convention) We've connected JFK to an older and deeper background story that puts his assassination into a broader historical context through a thousand years of Fitzgerald family history. What shocked us the most was finding a powerful mystical aspect along with deeper esoteric motives than we could never have imagined
St. Thomas Aquinas  (1225-1274) laid out the conditions when war could be justified long before nuclear weapons were imagined, From ImagesAttr
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Neoconizing the Just War Doctrine in the service of American Empire PART III: Join with us as we unravel the de-evolution of rational defense policy and its immersion into the mystical as we explore the radical 1980 re-interpretation of the 4th century Just War Doctrine of the Catholic Church that has gained momentum today as the US confronts the limits of maintaining dominance over the world with a first strike nuclear policy.
The 1812 Fire of Moscow broke out when most had abandoned the city ahead of Napoleon's troops entering on September 14th. One month after entering, the starving French army began a hasty retreat out of Russia., From ImagesAttr
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Part 2: The Tragic Imperialist: Brzezinski, Afghanistan and the End of Emperors No one has ever suggested a privatized agency in the death of Ambassador Dubs. But the Safari Club's anti-Communist agenda came to the White House with Brzezinski in 1977, had been active in Afghanistan for years. If ever there was an opportunity for their 1,500-strong black network of assassins to act on Brzezinski's agenda to lure the Soviets into their own Vietnam, it was at room 117 of the Kabul Hotel on February 14, 1979.
The Rhodes Colossus: Caricature of Cecil Rhodes 1892, From Uploaded
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 30, 2023
The Truth about the CIA's Imperial Holy Warriors is hidden in the Mystical The first thing an academic tells you when you mention the mystical side of Afghanistan is that you shouldn't talk about that. The study of foreign policy cannot be seen as motivated by anything other than rational and objective reasons and measured by the metrics of quantitative analysis. How then to explain 'Wild Bill' Donovan, the first director of the OSS and the father of today's CIA calling his agents Knights Templars?
This U.S. Government World War II propaganda poster gives an oddly non-threatening impression of Hitler., From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Part 3: Engineering Public Perception to the Right for the Right Democracy and freedom of expression are under attack. There is blood in the streets. How did it get that way? Where did it come from, what are its sources and what continues to drive it? This four part series will look at the origin of those sources and unlock connections that when understood should open doors of perception that have been locked shut for far too long.
'Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' The Queen of Hearts from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, From InText
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 14, 2020
'Magical Thinking' has always ruled the US role in Afghanistan The best way for us to understand Afghanistan is to look at the record of American involvement going back four decades and to look at the record requires a reexamination of President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. From the start, U.S. policy formation surrounding Afghanistan has lived in a realm of magical thinking that has produced nothing but a catastrophe of nightmarish proportions.
Afghan Women & Children, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 17, 2016
Brzezinski Vision to Lure Soviets into 'Afghan Trap' Is Orlando's Nightmare In 1977 Afghanistan had no refugees and Brzezinski, at the time, set in motion events that have come full circle, to this tragedy, leaving Afghanistan today with the second-largest refugee population in the world, and an on-going effort to destroy Russia.
Justice, one of the four theological virtues by Vitruvio Alberi, 1589-1590, From ImagesAttr
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Part 6: The Death of Adolph Dubs - Cui bono? 'To whom is it a benefit?' The kidnapping and assassination of Adolph Dubs would provide the spark to swing opinion in Washington toward Brzezinski's desire for a more aggressive destabilization of Amin's and the Soviets did not want;government that in turn would lead to exactly what Ambassador Adolph Dubs had died trying to prevent and the Soviets did not want; a Soviet military occupation.
Poland's Ex-Leader Sees Russia as One of Five Emerging Superpowers, From ImagesAttr
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Before Prosecuting Iraq War Criminals, US Must Deal With Afghan War Crime In 1979, before false intelligence was used to justify the Iraq war, a heinous war crime was committed against Afghanistan by Zbigniew Brzezinski. It's not just Brzezinski who is culpable. It was the Washington bureaucracy that enabled Brzezinski to activate his Machiavellian plot of intentionally drawing the Soviets into his "Afghan Trap." How Washington enabled Brzezinski's plot and why it's still important.
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The Trump Card is played! Never Underestimate THE FOOL How the hatred for Catholic Rome in the 14th century would establish a life and death struggle within the European deep-state; and how this conflict would lead to the rise of a crypto-Cathar counter church, whose apocalyptic world-ending goals would complete its cycle on November 22, 1963 in the Anglo/Norman America of the present era.
Afghan human rights expert Sima Wali delivers her acceptance speech for Amnesty International's Ginetta Sagan Fund Award in 1999., From ImagesAttr
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What have they done to our fair sister? An Epitaph Zbigniew Brzezinski, the man who'd sacrificed Sima Wali's Afghanistan to give the Soviet Union its own Vietnam, passed on four months earlier in the same city where Sima lived until her death.If they should meet in the afterlife, one can easily imagine how delightfully uncomfortable that encounter would be for Zbig!
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Part 3 - How the CIA Created a Fake Western Reality for 'Unconventional Warfare' In 1950, the CIA helped establish the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an anti-communist advocacy group, that would set the stage for a sophisticated doctrinal campaign to neutralize any political opposition (Communist or not) to Anglo/American culture and make the world safe for the rise of the Machiavellian elite.
The Khashoggi Gambit: Another move on the Global Chess Board, From ImagesAttr
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The Khashoggi Gambit Overthrowing secular regimes and replacing them with Muslim fanatics put Khashoggi squarely in the vanguard of Neoconservative foreign policy and his death at the hands of a Saudi death squad is a blow to their entire agenda. But it should be remembered that their agenda gained prominence in the first place as a result of a not so dissimilar atrocity leveled against an American Ambassador in 1979.
The 1814 Battle of Paris was between Russia, Austria and Prussia against France. The French surrendered March 31, forcing Napoleon to abdicate and go into exile, From ImagesAttr
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Part 2: European Imperialists have been facing the "Russia problem" since Napoleon's disastrous march on Moscow in 1812 The 1975 creation of the Washington Institute for the Study of Conflict, WISC was not the first time British intelligence had directly interfered in a contentious struggle for political power in the United States. London had a direct hand in bringing the U.S. into both World Wars I and II.
Eternal flame at the Grave of John F. Kennedy in Arlington National Cemetery, From Uploaded
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A Declaration of Human Rights for the 21st century, World Peace Endless war puts you in a hell of madness from which there is no escape. The madness of war has come full circle and is now in our schools, parks and homes. It was always a part of our nature. We have given in to a part of our nature that should have matured but instead has remained aloof from our humanity. That part of our nature is unlearned and untamed. We are the victims of our own design and therefore we can change it.
An 1898 cartoon features newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst dressed as a cartoon character of the day, a satire of their papers' role in drumming up U.S. public opinion for  war., From ImagesAttr
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 28, 2017
Part II - How Neocons Push for War by Cooking the Books The use of corrupt intelligence to justify endless war today became official in 1976 when C.I.A. Director George Bush created the first Team B, the concept of "competitive analysis" regarding the Soviet threat done by an alternative team based on ideology instead of facts. To understand America's drift into despotism over the last 40 years, we must de-encrypt the evolution of its secret "double government."
The New York Times Building from street level, From ImagesAttr
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The New York Times Strikes Out Again on Afghanistan From 1918 until its demise in 1991, the Russian people at least knew that Pravda (Truth) was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. But what most Americans would be surprised to learn is that The New York Times has been operating for decades as the U.S. government's Pravda without anyone being the wiser.
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, From Uploaded
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 30, 2020
Our interview about President Carter's true role in starting the longest war in US history October 7, 2020 was the 19th anniversary of what is described as the longest war in American history. But the real start of the longest US "war" was when President Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski succeeded in drawing the Soviets into the "Afghan Trap" on December 27, 1979. It is the back story leading up to the Soviet invasion that everyone needs to know, especially the pivotal role of President Carter.
Dante reads the words 'All hope abandon ye who enter here' on Inferno's entrance, From ImagesAttr
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Part I Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate, Abandon hope all ye who enter here -- Dante's Divine Comedy Before the Tomahawk missiles start flying between Moscow and New York, Americans had better educate themselves fast about the forces and the people who claim that Russia covered up a Syrian government gas attack on its own people. Proof no longer seems to matter in the rush to further transform the world into Dante's vision of Hell.
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Decrypting the Shadow behind Hamid Karzai To both Ruttig and Rohrabacher, Khalilzad's ultimate crime like the U.S. manipulation of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime in Vietnam was that his corruption of the Karzai regime had created so much internal chaos that no amount of outside effort could undo it. Yet the idea that chaos, as a form of extreme social engineering, may have actually been the plan cannot be ignored.
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A Medieval Nightmare Finds a Home in the American Way of Making War In a 1972 New Yorker article Senator J. William Fulbright traced the origins of the devastation caused by Vietnam to the intellectual corruption of the Cold War. But his shock was in realizing that the actual thinking behind the Cold War and the Truman Doctrine was not based on facts or logic or even the metrics of modern warfare, but on a medieval ideological methodology that in effect defied reason.
The Neocon Addiction to Mirror Imaging: Mount Hood reflected in Mirror Lake, Oregon, From ImagesAttr
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America, an Empire in Twilight Series Part II As Trump and Clinton bob and weave and excoriate each other as unfit for the presidency, neither has shown a genuine capacity for leadership or can explain exactly how they'll make the desperately needed course-correction Americans want, once they assume the White House in 2017. How could this have happened?
Gandhi at Peshawar meeting with Badshah Khan in 1938, From Uploaded
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Bhadshah Khan's Afghan World Peace Movement The strength of Badsher Kahn's Khudai-Khidmatgar and its philosophy challenged more than just the Afghan tribal code of Pashtunwali and the dominance of the British Empire in India. Badsher Khan also challenged the idea expressed by many Western orientalists that his movement was just an aberration.
King Author's Round Table, From Uploaded
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Imagine a future based on JFK's Dream of World Peace Something about America died along with our president on November 22, 1963 that never returned. We decided to find out what that was and discovered myths surrounding the Fitzgerald family's connection to Camelot provided clues. Resurrecting the peaceful world that JFK wanted to create requires imagination. But before restoring JFK's dream we need to know the deeper history connected to the Papacy that led to his assassination.
The Rhodes Colossus: Caricature of Cecil Rhodes 1892, From Uploaded
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The Dark Answers to Imperialism, JFK and Afghanistan are hidden in the Mystical--Two Authors' Journey of Discovery The first thing an academic tells you when you mention the mystical side of Afghanistan is that you shouldn't talk about that. The study of foreign policy cannot be seen as motivated by anything other than rational and objective reasons and measured by the metrics of quantitative analysis. How then to explain 'Wild Bill' Donovan, the first director of the OSS and the father of today's CIA calling his agents Knights Templars?
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The biggest Jaw-Dropping Journalism Scandal of all? Without any serious reflection by the media on the consequences of funding and training extremists for the purpose of defeating the Soviet Union, the American media not only missed the deeper story, but ignored where the Afghan story had been corrupted for political purposes.
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Afghanistan, the Saudi Arabia of lithium? But the most revealing quote in the Pentagon report wasn't so much that Afghanistan did indeed contain a vast wealth of minerals or even that the U.S. had carelessly overlooked a vast source of wealth for an impoverished nation. No. The key to understanding the report was framed by the reference that "Afghanistan could become the "Saudi Arabia of lithium,'" and Saudi Arabia is where the real story behind the headlines begins.
President John F. Kennedy motorcade, Dallas, Texas, Friday, November 22, 1963, From Uploaded
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From the Jerusalem Crusade to the Holy Grail to the death of JFK The immolation of Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay at the hands of the Pope's Inquisitors would serve as an inspiration for generations to seek revenge on the Roman Church. And so begins the legend that winds its way from Jerusalem to Paris to the Holy Grail, to Rosslyn Chapel and Scottish Rite Freemasonry and from there to the death of JFK.
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America's DNA profile has been all over Afghanistan since 1973 The CIA's secret mission became entangled with Pakistan's support for Afghanistan's small core of foreign-trained right wing Islamic extremists. Thanks to President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, this entanglement blossomed into a marriage following the 1978 Marxist coup and a full-blown commitment to holy war and the Islamization of Pakistan - long before the Soviet invasion of 1979.
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Warlords were Brought into the Afghan Government by the Bush Administration in 2001 According to a March 16 Reuters article by Peter Graff Afghanistan's government "has enacted into law a blanket pardon for war crimes and human rights abuse carried out before 2001." But "this law passed with a two-thirds majority." "Parliament is made up largely of lawmakers from former armed groups, some accused by rights groups and ordinary Afghans of war crimes."
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America's Financial Armageddon and Afghanistan Left off the front pages during the recent obsession with the debt crisis, Afghanistan has lurched back onto the scene in ways that are reminiscent of the Soviet collapse of two decades ago. After ten years of war, it seems Washington not only continues to lack a comprehensive understanding of Afghanistan, but it lacks an understanding of its own role in creating both the economic and political catastrophe it now faces.
Hiroshima and the stark, devastated reality caused by the August 6, 1945 atomic bomb blast, From Uploaded
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Some like it Hot, Some like it too Hot! Everybody knows the assassination of JFK took the United States off a course towards world peace and cooperation following the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, but how many people know that the assassination of U.S. Ambassador Adolph Dubs on February 14, 1979 ensured that the US would permanently pivot back to the same Apocalyptic course that was inaugurated with the murder of JFK.
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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the Messiah of Darkness The history of turning warlords like Hekmatyar to the good has consistently proven to be nothing but bad for the Afghan people
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Is WikiLeaks the antidote to the Washington K Street Kool-Aid Had the documents amassed an equal amount of evidence that Iran or Syria were working with Al Qaeda to carry out attacks on American troops in Afghanistan, the bombers would have been warming up on the flight decks by sundown. But when it came to Pakistan, there was only restraint.
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Crossing Bones at Zero Line Obama has embraced the largely discredited 1992 program for America's global dominance known as the Defense Planning Guidance crafted under another Bonesman, President George Herbert Walker Bush. It was assumed that following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States would rethink the need for war. Instead, the '92 Defense Planning Guidance set the stage for a whole new era of confrontation.
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The Ill-Logic of the U.S. Predator Drone Campaign "Imagine, for example, that burglars move into a neighborhood. If the police were to start blowing up people's houses from the air, would this convince homeowners to rise up against the burglars? Wouldn't it be more likely to turn the whole population against the police? And if their neighbors wanted to turn the burglars in, how would they do that exactly? Yet this is the same basic logic underlying the drone war."
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AfghanWarlord Threatens Boston-Area Experts on Afghanistan with Legal Action "How is it possible that the Obama administration can allow the representative of a world-class terrorist to threaten an American journalist in America with impunity? This illustrates the contempt this warlord has for America's democratic process.
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Mission Accomplished? For now Washington will bask in the warm glow of triumphalism, just the way it did following the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
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Crossing Zero, The Vanishing Point for the American Empire A funny thing happened to the United States when the Obama administration decided to cross Zero line and bring the Afghan war into Pakistan. Instead of resolution, after nearly two years into the administration's AfPak strategy, it would seem the gap between reality and the Washington beltway has only widened.
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Thinking outside the box? No! Throw the Box Away! Breaking this chain of institutional thinking is essential to solving the Afghan problem. But most suggestions to "think outside the box" aren't really intended to create new thinking as much as they are to try and maintain the same old thinking with a different approach. What is needed now is a wholly different way of thinking and a whole new group to do it.
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A Love Fest In The Hindu Kush During the 8 years of the Bush administration's "war on terror," Pakistan pretended to be an ally and the U.S. pretended to believe them. Now the U.S. pays for its Cold War policy-blindness and Bush-era delusion with the blood of its soldiers and diplomats as well as its tax dollars to service a hopelessly failed policy and a Pakistani military that acts more like an enemy than an ally.
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What the Afghans Want Reconciliation itself isn't the problem. Giving reconciled criminals a legitimate place in the Afghan government who are paid by foreign interests, are directed by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate and have never been held to account for their crimes against the Afghan people is the problem.
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Thinking the Unthinkable in the Aftermath of Kandahar The Battle for Kandahar & The "Perceptions" of American Victory What can the world expect of American policy in the aftermath of what promises to be an even larger opium-inspired tea party in Kandahar? And what happens if the U.S. achieves a military victory, but fails to address the gaping political vacuum necessary to keep the Taliban from returning?

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