Largely overlooked in coverage of the war on Russia has been the role of Western Deep State intel agencies—CIA and MI6. The role of these agencies in fomenting the coup that overthrew Ukraine’s elected government and installed a radical Ukro-Nazi regime is well known. What’s not so generally known is the role of these agencies in building up Ukrainian Deep State capabilities, that have enable Ukraine to commit significant infrastructure sabotage operations inside Russia as well as targeted assassinations.
Reading this makes me all-the-more surprised that they let Mike Johnson get his nose under the Gang of Eight tent. Even though Johnson will prohibited from spilling hard intel, Glitch, Marco and Turner have to be a little concerned about populist-side backlash when we learn (through the inevitable Washington trickles) about all the sketchiness they've been acquiescing in for this many years. That is, unless Johnson isn't the man we think he is.
I believe that in the past they've played rather fast and loose. What I mean is, Devin Nunes was kept out of the loop. But it's a whole 'nuther thing to pull that on the Speaker.
"Our Country, Then and Now takes us on a 400-year journey through America’s history, providing unique snapshots from African enslavement, native dispossession, financial scandals, and wars of expansion and aggression, interspersed with tales from author Richard C. Cook’s ancestry—from Puritan forebears to fighters in the American Revolutionary War and the Civil War, to Midwest pioneer farmers and their relations with native nations.
As a former NASA whistleblower, then US Treasury analyst, Cook dwells in particular on how the financial oligarchy aggrandized itself via a fractional reserve banking system that ultimately corrupted America’s originally proclaimed democratic and egalitarian values. He addresses how the British, European, and US bankers hijacked the American monetary system by placing it under control of the Money Trust through the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913, how this then financed the British takedown of rival Germany, triggered the Great Depression by shipping US gold to Britain and Europe, and led to the Bretton Woods agreements, the creation of the International Monetary Fund, and the Marshall Plan, which combined to place the world’s economy under the control of the US dollar.
After World War II, the US financial oligarchs created the “national security state” headed by the CIA to rule the world through assassinations, financial thievery, and overthrow of governments. They elevated the Soviet Union into a bogeymen to justify the vast quantity of Federal Reserve “money printing” required to subsidize an out-of-control war budget and hundreds of US military bases around the world. These measures led to worldwide dollar supremacy under control of the Rockefeller dynasty, with the US National Security State—aka today’s “Deep State”—and the CIA set up to enforce the bankers’ financial hegemony that has lasted until now.
Finally Cook addresses his efforts, along with Stephen Zarlenga of the American Monetary Institute and Congressman Dennis Kucinich, that resulted in the NEED Act of 2011 intended to end the Federal Reserve, and restore democratic control over the nation’s financial system, explaining how such reforms could save the US from today’s terminal hollowed-out economy."
Ukrainian Pilots Start Training on the F-16 in Arizona
"A “small number” of Ukrainian pilots began training with the 162nd Wing of the Arizona Air National Guard earlier this week in “F-16 fundamentals,” according to a service spokesperson."
“The training curriculum will align with the foundational knowledge and skills of each pilot and is expected to last several months,” a U.S. Air Force spokesperson said in a statement provided to Air & Space Forces Magazine."
"when those proceedings start in the war crimes tribunals there will be names named"
The last thing the intel community err... enemy of the people want is the spotlight. Cowards and rats do their best work in the shadows and darkness. Looking forward to refurbishing and/or adding this offshoot to #SayTheirNames.
There isn't a prison bad enough for these "operatives" to rot in. Operating with no concern for a destroyed Ukraine, they follow the neocon code that the ends justify the means.
Thanks, Mark, and thanks Ray for the original link. The simplest explanation of the WaPo article was that it was a CIA CYA operation. But honestly that didn't even occur to me because the narrative they are putting forward is so blunt and so blatantly false.
Apparently our intelligence community thinks the general public is REALLY stupid. This does not inspire confidence in them, to say the least. If they do not understand the people they are supposed to be serving or the laws under which they are supposed to be serving them, what is there to instruct or limit their actions?
Well, self-preservation and self-empowerment are likely the agency's guiding principles - but as far as limits? Probably only that which they believe would detract from those principles.
"One of the most popular classes, one that almost every student took, was a class on government intelligence."
And presumably the CIA actively recruited from the students who took the class. When I was at Williams in the late 60s a popular history professor was widely believed to be the CIA recruiter on campus. I was invited to a number of events at his home (pretty unusual, even in those days) and became friends with his wife. It was interesting which students were invited to his home. I have no idea which ones were ultimately recruited. I was not. But after his death his relationship with the Agency was confirmed.
10:23:23 was a Monday not a Tuesday...
True. I did actually check my calendar but, old eyes ...
Reading this makes me all-the-more surprised that they let Mike Johnson get his nose under the Gang of Eight tent. Even though Johnson will prohibited from spilling hard intel, Glitch, Marco and Turner have to be a little concerned about populist-side backlash when we learn (through the inevitable Washington trickles) about all the sketchiness they've been acquiescing in for this many years. That is, unless Johnson isn't the man we think he is.
I believe that in the past they've played rather fast and loose. What I mean is, Devin Nunes was kept out of the loop. But it's a whole 'nuther thing to pull that on the Speaker.
I discuss the longstanding crimes against humanity of the CIA and other Western agencies, particularly the British, in my new book https://www.claritypress.com/product/our-country-then-and-now/
From the Clarity Press website:
"Our Country, Then and Now takes us on a 400-year journey through America’s history, providing unique snapshots from African enslavement, native dispossession, financial scandals, and wars of expansion and aggression, interspersed with tales from author Richard C. Cook’s ancestry—from Puritan forebears to fighters in the American Revolutionary War and the Civil War, to Midwest pioneer farmers and their relations with native nations.
As a former NASA whistleblower, then US Treasury analyst, Cook dwells in particular on how the financial oligarchy aggrandized itself via a fractional reserve banking system that ultimately corrupted America’s originally proclaimed democratic and egalitarian values. He addresses how the British, European, and US bankers hijacked the American monetary system by placing it under control of the Money Trust through the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913, how this then financed the British takedown of rival Germany, triggered the Great Depression by shipping US gold to Britain and Europe, and led to the Bretton Woods agreements, the creation of the International Monetary Fund, and the Marshall Plan, which combined to place the world’s economy under the control of the US dollar.
After World War II, the US financial oligarchs created the “national security state” headed by the CIA to rule the world through assassinations, financial thievery, and overthrow of governments. They elevated the Soviet Union into a bogeymen to justify the vast quantity of Federal Reserve “money printing” required to subsidize an out-of-control war budget and hundreds of US military bases around the world. These measures led to worldwide dollar supremacy under control of the Rockefeller dynasty, with the US National Security State—aka today’s “Deep State”—and the CIA set up to enforce the bankers’ financial hegemony that has lasted until now.
Finally Cook addresses his efforts, along with Stephen Zarlenga of the American Monetary Institute and Congressman Dennis Kucinich, that resulted in the NEED Act of 2011 intended to end the Federal Reserve, and restore democratic control over the nation’s financial system, explaining how such reforms could save the US from today’s terminal hollowed-out economy."
Richard, the point is, it's not "our" country. It's *their* country. :-(
"operational support of many different sorts"
Ukrainian Pilots Start Training on the F-16 in Arizona
"A “small number” of Ukrainian pilots began training with the 162nd Wing of the Arizona Air National Guard earlier this week in “F-16 fundamentals,” according to a service spokesperson."
“The training curriculum will align with the foundational knowledge and skills of each pilot and is expected to last several months,” a U.S. Air Force spokesperson said in a statement provided to Air & Space Forces Magazine."
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/ukrainian-pilots-start-training-f-16-arizona/
"when those proceedings start in the war crimes tribunals there will be names named"
The last thing the intel community err... enemy of the people want is the spotlight. Cowards and rats do their best work in the shadows and darkness. Looking forward to refurbishing and/or adding this offshoot to #SayTheirNames.
There isn't a prison bad enough for these "operatives" to rot in. Operating with no concern for a destroyed Ukraine, they follow the neocon code that the ends justify the means.
And a destroyed USA
Nothing. I repeat nothing is “reported” in the WaPo that isn’t cleared by or directly fed by the various government three letter agencies.
And Jeff Bezos is a direct descendant of a Deep stater.
“HANS, ARE WE THE BADDIES?”
https://sonar21.com/washington-post-cia-article-signals-that-u-s-preparing-to-jettison-ukraine/
Thanks - I was mystified on what the article was signaling.
Thanks, Mark, and thanks Ray for the original link. The simplest explanation of the WaPo article was that it was a CIA CYA operation. But honestly that didn't even occur to me because the narrative they are putting forward is so blunt and so blatantly false.
Apparently our intelligence community thinks the general public is REALLY stupid. This does not inspire confidence in them, to say the least. If they do not understand the people they are supposed to be serving or the laws under which they are supposed to be serving them, what is there to instruct or limit their actions?
Nothing?
Well, self-preservation and self-empowerment are likely the agency's guiding principles - but as far as limits? Probably only that which they believe would detract from those principles.
@L
Re having your eyes opened and seeing the full scale, a book you might want to read if you haven't already is The Devil's Chessboard.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Devils-Chessboard-audiobook/dp/B00YFQKH9Y/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+devil%27s+chessboard+by+david+talbot&sr=8-1
Another is Alex Krainer's Grand Deception.
https://www.redpillpress.com/shop/grand-deception-bill-browder-magnitsky-act-russian-sanctions/
"One of the most popular classes, one that almost every student took, was a class on government intelligence."
And presumably the CIA actively recruited from the students who took the class. When I was at Williams in the late 60s a popular history professor was widely believed to be the CIA recruiter on campus. I was invited to a number of events at his home (pretty unusual, even in those days) and became friends with his wife. It was interesting which students were invited to his home. I have no idea which ones were ultimately recruited. I was not. But after his death his relationship with the Agency was confirmed.
Well, I suppose there are levels of 'recruitment'. When I was at Williams the DCI was Richard Helms, also a Williams alumnus. It was a back door.