Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Chuck Ochelli joins me in the first hour to discuss all the recent news regarding the JFK assassination. Chuck tells us about JFK Lancer Conference, where he gave a presentation and received an award commending him for his work on JFK. We then move onto the recent release of files on the assassination. Chuck and I discuss some of the sensationalism surrounding them such as the Hitler in Colombia files. We also talk about the files that documents the US government’s idea to use Soviet planes in false flag attacks in Russia.

With the memory of the saber-rattling prelude to the U.S.’ 2003 invasion of Iraq largely faded, many of that war’s biggest proponents have recently found themselves uniting behind a new cause – the dissolution of the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

(ANTIMEDIA) — Thanks in part to the Washington Post, we now have a fairly decent idea of who was ultimately behind the denigration of relations between Qatar and a number of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, particularly Saudi Arabia.

(ANTIMEDIA) — The email account of one of Washington’s most influential foreign operatives, Yousef Al-Otaiba, has been hacked. A number of those emails were sent to the Intercept, as well as the Huffington Post and the Daily Beast, the Intercept reports. The hacker has allegedly promised to release a trove of these emails publicly.

Yousef Al Otaiba, the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States of America, left, and Susan Rice, National Security Adviser, talk in the State Dining Room of the White House, July 25, 2013. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
Hackers have released email exchanges between the Emirati ambassador to the US and top foreign policy figures that include details of a forthcoming meeting between UAE officials and a pro-Israel think tank, reports said on Saturday.

Defense Secretary Mattis welcomes Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman to the Pentagon, March 16, 2017. (DoD photo by Sgt. Amber I. Smith) By Jonathan Marshall | Consortium News | April 15, 2017 The Trump administration’s growing use of military force in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen has neoconservative hawks rooting for […]

The Future of Iran Policy conference was attended by many of the same figures who have been advocating for with Iran for several years. Here Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham, center and former Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., right, arrive on stage at a town hall meeting at the 3 West Club to launch Graham’s “No Nukes for Iran” tour Monday, July 20, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

By Kurt Nimmo | Another Day In The Empire | August 13, 2016 Donald Trump has appointed at least two neocons to his foreign policy group. First, let’s consider Joseph E. Schmitz. He is a former Inspector General of the Department of Defense and a former executive with Blackwater Worldwide. He fled the Pentagon after […]