RIP W. Blum, George H.W. 'Cop-A-Feel' Bush's Deadly Legacy, Israel's Forced Self-Demolitions by Media Roots Radio published on 2018-12-13T05:27:32Z Abby and Robbie begin this special 2.5 hour edition of Media Roots Radio by discussing the life and works of the late William Blum. They then unearth the atrocious legacy of George H.W. Bush. From CIA director, to Reagan VP to President, Bush Sr. engineered the neocon cabal that continued under his son W. Bush's administration, and oversaw the Panama Invasion and Gulf War, both murderous enterprises that set the stage for permanent US wars in Latin America and the Middle East. They close the show with a Palestine update about the Hollywood gala to raise money for the IDF, Palestinians being forced to "self-demolish" their homes, and tremendous local BDS successes. William Blum on Breaking the Set: https://bit.ly/2PB1Vsv Empire Files Interview with Randy Credico: https://bit.ly/2DPXkAz California Fires Class Action Lawsuit: https://bit.ly/2PBd9xp Prescott Bush Helped Hitler's Rise to Power: https://bit.ly/29Xkvbr Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey Comment by Will Howe I took your advice and got "The Panama Deception" from the library and boy was it revealing. Truly, the majority of Americans know almost nothing about Operation Just Cause and even fewer know the truth of this illegal invasion. Please make another episode soon! There is so much to talk about as always. 2018-12-24T19:18:23Z Comment by 2q3rf32d23d2d332dxd i liek how you call each other baby sometimes, tee hee :3 2018-12-24T05:17:17Z Comment by 2q3rf32d23d2d332dxd yes she is brave and beautiful 2018-12-24T05:16:27Z Comment by Yuri S @ev-docmaker: John Pilger is amazing! he should be sought out more for interviews and would love for Media roots, empire files, and other likeminded outlets to interview him especcialy because he's a great media critic and focus on the British,Australian press and their domestic/foreign policy amongst others :) 2018-12-22T04:51:10Z Comment by W. Glenn Smith Robbie, you meant of course "propping up the Contras" not the Sandinistas 2018-12-20T14:54:56Z Comment by Pamela Bennett Wow Abby. Your language is so amazing! What an inspiration! I am an activist for peace and for Yemen. I have a page called Yemen Rising. I have to record little speeches sometimes for media and I an sure i have gleaned a bit of what I say and think from listening to you. I am doing my best to follow the example that both of you lead. Thank you so much for your contribution. 2018-12-19T18:10:41Z Comment by GigaDweebess MeddedK8 The Station Nightclub fire raw footage from 2003 gave me a whole new appreciation for the terror of fire. And the investigation afterwards showed me a whole new level of f'd up greed. 2018-12-19T13:27:04Z Comment by Sonic Nebula @ev-docmaker: To underscore Prescott Bush's evilness, he had shares in the Silesian Steel company that operated at Auschwitz, making him profit directly from the slavery at the death camp. It makes you wonder what George H.W. was thinking during official commemorations at Auschwitz. Perhaps it was along the lines of "so this is the place that helped Papa fund my first oil company." But Prescott Bush's main role was slushing Nazi capital back and forth between New York, Rotterdam and Germany (Three-card Monte style), so that it could never be confiscated by either side during and after the war. 2018-12-18T13:01:09Z Comment by Sonic Nebula Any notion that Bush somehow parachuted into the top position of the CIA, as an outsider without prior service in the agency, is ridiculous. Bush was working for the CIA already in the 1950s. According to the newspaper Barron's, Bush's oil company Zapata was "a part time purchasing front for the CIA". (It was perversely named after Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, no doubt causing him to spin in his grave.) In the run-up to the the Bay of Pigs operation, Zapata was conveniently drilling for oil at Cay Sal, just 40 miles off the shore of Cuba, so its oil rigs could be used as listening posts. All of Zapata's records from between 1960 - 1966 at the SEC were destroyed shortly after Bush became VP. 2018-12-18T12:25:30Z Comment by Sonic Nebula Not so fast. Between being director of CIA and VP, Bush was also a director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1977 - 1979). This was in the reverse order of Allen Dulles' career, who was first CFR director only later director of the CIA. 2018-12-18T11:40:06Z Comment by Sonic Nebula Correction: the first two directors of the CIA were military academy alumni, and thus not Skull & Bones. Unlikely as it seems, the ties between Yale and CIA being so strong, Bush was the first (and as far as I know only) Skull & Bones director of the CIA. There were top ranking CIA officials who were Bonesmen, the most notorious being James Jesus Angleton (in 1949 head of Staff A of the CIA's Office of Special Operations and chief of the CIA's counter-intelligence staff 1954 - 1975). And various CIA top officials came from other elite fraternities at Yale, such as Snake & Book (Porter Goss) and Scroll & Key (Cord Meyer, Tracy Barnes). 2018-12-18T11:04:50Z Comment by Sonic Nebula @ev-docmaker: The reaction of the CIA to the Church Committee investigations in the mid-1970s was to outsource a lot of its black ops to allied countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel through the so called Safari Club. Bush was instrumental in setting up this new intelligence network, so his official CIA departure may have been a front to provide for plausible deniability. 2018-12-18T09:53:37Z Comment by Sonic Nebula Not sure if it was the reason for his disposal, but Noriega threw a lifeline to Nicaragua's Sandinista government by undermining the economic blockade of Nicaragua in the years 1988 - 1990. 2018-12-18T09:43:33Z Comment by Yuri S whatever happened to Nayirah the Kuweiti Ambassador's daughter, I've tried finding several links to 'where she is now' and shockingly can't find anything but I've read her POS father died from cancer in 2012. 2018-12-16T23:47:03Z Comment by Yuri S another great episode! Media Roots along with Ben Norton of The Real News, Moderate Rebels and FAIR contributors and the Global Research News Hour and Jimmy Dore all did justice to Bush's bloody legacy in which even if you knew how horrendous he was as a President both at home and abroad you really have to dig deeper and deeper into ...yuck just how much of vile imperialist we was and I'm being far too nice in my description of him. Rest in peace William Blum, I don't always agree with his thesis that Islamic terrorist attacks are a response to US policy because Bin Laden, the Saudis, and the Wahabi-Salafist branch of Islamic extremism are by-products of Western deep state imperialism which Rania Khalek and a tiny bunch of others have challeneged but that aside Blum was superb and RIP to him. 2018-12-16T23:30:18Z Comment by Yuri S that is sooooooo fucked up lol 2018-12-16T20:57:42Z Comment by Jamie Robbins GHWB under orders of Nixon tried to shut down investigation in to Agnew before all of this too. 2018-12-15T01:19:54Z Comment by Rainbowbelt Damn and Fran is a self described Socialist. 2018-12-14T23:20:39Z Comment by Rainbowbelt Vice did an article and there's a documentary about Gary called the writer with no hands. https://www.vice.com/sv/article/gq95k9/the-writer-with-no-hands-gary-devore-matthew-alford 2018-12-14T22:47:57Z Comment by Rainbowbelt The legacy of Monsters should never be forgotten. 2018-12-14T22:35:31Z Comment by Karl Knight I love you two, but this is the second time you've said there isn't a movie that shows the brutality of war. Seriously check out the Soviet film Come and See (1985). The film focuses upon the Nazi German occupation of the Byelorussian SSR during World War II. It's brutal to say the least. It also depicts how The Soviet Union were the real winners, in spite of their sacrafices, of WWII - not the Americans. 2018-12-14T12:41:06Z Comment by Yuri S @arlnight: yeah there are several films that show the brutaliy of war while at the same time being truly anti-war like the Pianist, Casulties of War & Redacted both by Brian DePalma,Grave of the Fire Flies, Born on the Fourth of July and Full Metal Jacket and Paths of Glory. I'm probally blanking on several others but just off the top of my head those are I feel some good ones that come to mind. 2018-12-14T03:40:49Z Comment by user412031026 The chair of Temple University's board of trustees (one of Bill Cosby's defense lawyers) characterized Hill's comments as hate speech and is looking for a way to fire him. 2018-12-13T21:16:02Z Comment by user412031026 There are reports of US agents throwing coke-fueled sex parties with prostitutes all across the world. 2018-12-13T19:22:03Z Comment by alejandro zavaleta 4 Great podcast as always, guys. I hope you guys don't erase my comments for critizism against Lopèz Obrador. I'm anti-Lopez Obrador y soy mexicano. I consider myself a leftist and anti-bourgeoisie. Please understand that Lopèz Obrador is no different then Obama in terms of rhetoric. He's shit and I said this to Ben and Max and they erased my comments for doing so in their last podcast with that sack of shit Ackerman. They pretty much acted like the right-wing assholes that hate critizism. 2018-12-13T14:25:28Z
