Guns and Butter

How the massive documents dump plays into US geostrategy; comparisons with the Pentagon Papers; war provocation incidents; Wikileaks Board; Cass Sunstein; Google; In-Q-Tel; Operation Keyhole.  Aired: August 11, 2010 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Economic depression increasing the likelihood of war; an attack on Iran would increase the price of oil and thereby increase demand for dollars; strong opposition from other countries to an attack no longer exists; recent incidents ramping up tension; military weaponry in the Middle East.  Aired: August 18, 2010 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Dr. Bowman discusses his US Air Force experiences in Vietnam in 1969-70; as Director of Advanced Space Programs Development in the Ford and Carter administrations; the 1982 Defense Guidance Document; his public opposition to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) better know as Star Wars during the Ronald Reagan administration; his take on the events of September 11, 2001; and wars of aggression....

Pakistani General Hamid Gul explains that the US war in Afghanistan was doomed from the start. As a military professional with a distinguished career, he identifies the key factors that determine success or failure in war, and shows that the US is failing in almost every area, including long and insecure lines of communication, an insurmountable intelligence failure due to the almost total lack of...

A discussion and overview of the new Project Censored book with an in-depth look at several of the twenty-five most censored news stories of the past year, including "Global Plans To Replace the Dollar", "US DOD Is the Worst Polluter on the Planet", "War Crimes of General Stanley McCrystal", "Increased Tensions With Unresolved 9/11 Issues" among other stories.  Aired: September 15, 2010 Visit Guns...

We discuss David Ray Griffin's newest book, Cognitive Infiltration, which is a deconstruction and debunking of Obama appointee, Cass Sunstein's, paper, "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures", in which Sunstein proposes a new government COINTELPRO type infiltration of groups which research and promote ideas and explanations that run contrary to US government narratives, most specifically about the...

Stock price manipulation through electronic high speed trading; global totalitarian oligarchy; HSBC & JP Morgan manipulation of the silver market; stock market crashes more profitable than growth periods for traders; computers set up to steal; financial terrorism; suicide bankers; Fed policy that benefits the top 1%; growing social unrest; plague of mortgage fraud; IMF leveraged buy-out of Ireland...

Kevin discusses 9/11 as a day of many unprecedented events, including events at the World Trade Center; the destruction of the WTC buildings; his own experiences speaking out about the official investigation; three mainstream scientific articles that he helped to produce.  Aired: January 19, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Current law and practice regarding the writ of habeas corpus, the right to challenge detention; preventive detention; secret sites; Guantanamo and Bagram Air Base; extraordinary rendition; targeting of American citizens for assassination; surveillance and infiltration of political groups; Miranda. Aired: January 19, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Financial and fiscal austerity policies; the appeal of economic austerity to bankers; economic depression and war; post-WWII vs. post-cold war economic policy; government to government grants vs. commercial lending; the euro and dollar; privatization in New Zealand and elsewhere; social unrest; speculation and prices; criminalization of the economy; impoverishment of the US. Aired: February 2, 201...

Financial and fiscal austerity policies; the appeal of economic austerity to bankers; economic depression and war; post-WWII vs. post-cold war economic policy; government to government grants vs. commercial lending; the euro and dollar; privatization in New Zealand and elsewhere; social unrest; speculation and prices; criminalization of the economy; impoverishment of the US. Aired: March 16, 2011...

Mark I Boiling Water Reactors; major safety issues; Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Public Document Rooms; absence of cooling water; Japanese society; Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO); spent fuel pools; Price Anderson Act of 1957.  Aired: March 23, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

US/NATO attempted coup d'etat in Libya; military attack part of the long war; weaponry; media disinformation; who are the rebels; real objective of the attack; oil; state of the economy in Libya; Egyptian and Libyan situations contrasted; Egyptian opposition leadership co-opted by foreign interests; the purpose of regime replacement.  Aired: March 30, 2011 http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Visit Guns...

US/NATO attempted coup d'etat in Libya; military attack part of the long war; weaponry; media disinformation; who are the rebels; real objective of the attack; oil; state of the economy in Libya; Egyptian and Libyan situations contrasted; Egyptian opposition leadership co-opted by foreign interests; the purpose of regime replacement.  Aired: April 13, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.guns...

Obama's budget speech at George Washington University on April 13th, 2011; the Fiscal 2011 Budget Resolution causes a revolt in Washington, D.C.; the Independent Payment Advisory Board as a death panel; House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's genocidal Budget Resolution for the year 2012; Medicare and Medicaid under bipartisan attack; PIMCO sells the US short; and speculators drive up the pric...

Background on the US/Pakistan relationship; CIA contractor Raymond Davis; US raid on alleged Osama bin Laden compound; the attack on the Mehran Naval Station in Karachi, the Pakistan Taliban; the Chicago terrorist trial and informant David Headley; Mullah Omar; the way forward.  Aired: June 1, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Scientific research into instances of man-made earthquakes; HAARP; muon-catalyzed fusion; metal catalyzed fusion; a new kind of dynamic energy.  Aired: June 8, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

We discuss the evolution of the protest movement in Syria, media coverage and distortion, the Syrian opposition, the Turkey/Iran/Syria axis, Russian interests in Syria, and what the fall of Assad would mean.  Aired: June 15, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Financial occupation of Greece; IMF Greek Memorandum; financial terrorism; controlled demolition of European economies; credit default swaps; asset grab; lawsuits against bankers and government; Pirate My Film, including crowd funding and copyright free media; new European funding facility in the planning stage; global bank; coming housing collapse and banking disaster; devaluation of the dollar;...

Eyewitness report on bombing targets in Tripoli and environs, the port; the rebels in Bengazi; government defectors; large-scale building projects in Libya; Italy's involvement; indictment by International Criminal Court; the Lockerbie bombing; analysis of the US/NATO attack.  Aired: June 29, 2011 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

The jobless recovery; the debt ceiling and default; China; Greece; banks, not countries, receive the bailouts; financial warfare; IMF and EU; European Central Bank; US credit default swaps; US agricultural exports create food dependency; currency devaluation devalues the price of labor; class war of banks against the rest of society.  Aired: July 13, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsa...

Forewarning of the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001; three different approaches to understanding the anthrax attacks of 2001: structural, historical and symbolic; the lone nut theory of perpetrators; connections between the anthrax attacks and the so-called 9/11 hijackers in Florida; Operation Dark Winter; the attempt to disconnect anthrax from 9/11; Mohamed Atta asks for a loan.  Aired...

Aired: August 17, 2011 http://tarpley.net Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Military exercises and drills in the decade before September 11th, and on the day of; drills that then go live; MIHOP v. LIHOP; the goal of 9/11; the stand down order; lack of air defense; the Pentagon; Angel Is Next; Amalgam Virgo; Able Danger; Able Warrior; P2OG; Vigilant Guardian; Global Guardian; Amalgam Warrior; Doomsday Aircraft equipped with the Looking Glass Communication System, etc.  Air...

European banking crisis causing a constitutional crisis of the European Central Bank; Germany; the myth of Social Security in the US.; bank balance sheet recession; food, fuel and climate crisis; the super congress; debt deflation; FHA lawsuit against the banks; criminalization of the financial sector; Modern Monetary Theory; the coming lost decade; debt cancellation.  Aired: September 14, 2011 Vi...