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. Aired: August 25, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

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 reliable human intelligence, the serious underestimation of the Taliban's strength, use of corrupt elements in key operations, repeated changing of objectives, ineffectiveness of firepower, and the total inability to overcome the key advantages the Taliban hold in manpower, control of the countryside and time. Aired: September 8, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

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 and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

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 events of September 11th. Aired: September 22, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

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, Greece, etc.; outsourcing of money creation; control through debt. Aired: December 29, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

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, 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: March 16, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

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 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: April 13, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

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 price of oil. Aired: April 20, 2011 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

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; the wild card. Aired: June 22, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

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.gunsandbutter.org

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: July 20, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

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. Aired: September 7, 2011 http://tarpley.net Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

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 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

US Pakistan Relations; the war in Afghanistan; the Haqqani Network; the Taliban; the bombing in Kabul of the US embassy and CIA headquarters; the assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani. Aired: September 28, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

The broad consequences of 9/11 with regard to US military doctrine, and more broadly the pretext and justification which the lies surrounding 9/11 have given to waging a war of conquest under the banner of what we call the Global War on Terrorism. Aired: November 30, 2011 http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Foreign journalists trip to Syria; religions and ethnicities; cities of Damascus, Qara, Homs and its Zahra Neighborhood and Hospital, Baniyas, Tartus, and Beirut, Lebanon; Russian Naval Base; death squads/snipers/ambushes and kidnapping; Syrian Army; foreign intervention. Aired: December 21, 2011 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Ron Paul's "Plan to Restore America" includes $1 trillion in cuts to the federal budget in one year. We take a look at what this would mean for the American people. Ron Paul is the republican front runner to win the Iowa Caucus on January 3rd, 2012. Aired: December 28, 2011 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

With William Pepper, author of "An Act of State: The Assassination of Martin Luther King", his second book on the King case. William Pepper was a close political associate of Dr. King's in the last year of his life. Pepper represented James Earl Ray on appeal of his conviction for the murder of Dr. King. This presentation was given in Long Beach, California in January 2003, after the publication of the book. Aired: June 7, 2006 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Informed Trading; Insider Trading; Put Options; The Journal of Business; The 9/11 Commission Report; three scientific studies on insider trading; Professor Potasman Study from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Open Interest; Exercising Put Options; Quintile; Hedging; University of Wisconsin, Madison Study; Chesney Study; Conclusion. Aired: July 22, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Airline passenger manifests; examination of the Portland Jetport and Dullas Airport Videos, missing imprinted security data, faces smudged out, cover-up of evidence; FDIC evidence of hijacker alive after 9/11; analysis of passport photographs; the covert intelligence use of doubles to frame Ziad Jarrah. Aired: January 11, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Recent developments in the Middle East including the wider implications of the destabilization of the entire area; the current global war as a different kind of conquest than that of World War I and II; US military deployment in the area; the role of Israel; Iranian Defenses; US war planning and war scenarios since 2003 concerning the nation of Iran, including Austere Challenge 12, Theatre Iran Near Term, Global Strike 2003, Concept Plan 8022, and Vigilant Shield; the effect of sanctions; and The Responsibility To Protect. Aired: January 18, 2012 http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Intensifying financial crises; money manager capitalism; sovereign currency; crony capitalism; theoclassical economists; control fraud, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000; S&L Liars' Loan Crisis of 1990-91; Reinventing Government Movement; deregulation, desupervision and defacto decriminalization; fraud incentives; looting; subprime; Enron; Parmalat; BofA; Citigroup; Ameriquest; Washington Mutual; systemically dangerous institutions; Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB); faux stress tests; European austerity crisis; Mario Draghi, President of the ECB. Aired: February 29, 2012 http://neweconomicperspectives.org/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Difference between sovereign and non-sovereign money; what is money; fiat money; gold standard; fixed exchange rates; the Euro; difference between central banks and commercial banks; deflation and inflation; financial war against the economy; credit supply and asset prices; bank lending and capital investment; debt deflation stage and austerity stage of finance capitalism. Aired: March 7, 2012 Stephanie Kelton and Michael Hudson Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Aired: March 14, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

A history of European unification; problems today in the European monetary union; the three Germanys; the fallacy of composition; three possible solutions; Aesop's Fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper as it applies to the European Union today. Aired: March 21, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Functional finance; business cycle; real costs of unemployment; sovereign currency versus fixed exchange rates and the gold standard; macroeconomic policy; fiscal policy; vulture banks; Latvia as the standard for Europe under neoliberalism. Aired: March 28, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

How to become a billionaire - the four necessary ingredients in the recipe for fraud; the three sure consequences of banking control fraud; gutting of the underwriting process; Gresham's Law; The Business Roundtable; hyperinflation of a bubble. Aired: April 4, 2012 http://neweconomicperspectives.org/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Myths about taxation and government revenues in a sovereign currency situation; debts and deficits; full social security and price stability; the use of sectoral balances to analyze the financial position of the different sectors of the macro economy; the three sectors of the macro economy; the two rules governing the three sectors; the financial balance model. Aired: April 18, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

What withdrawal from the Euro system would mean for households and businesses in Italy; how to manage savings; what would likely happen in a return to sovereign currency; how the government and National Bank of Italy could manage the change; monetary and fiscal policy; interest rates; bond markets; loss of national power due to the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact and the inability to set employment policy. Marshall Auerback, Michael Hudson, William K. Black, and Stephanie Kelton Aired: April 25, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

The Bilderberger meeting in Virginia and what came out of it; the importance of the mass movement in Wisconsin; Alexis Tsipras of the Syriza Party in Greece and the economic situation there; and Italian prosecutor Michele Ruggiero of Italy who has brought indictments against the ratings agencies for manipulation of the financial market in Italian sovereign and bank debt. Aired: June 6, 2012 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

What the destabilization of Syria is really about; the Responsibility To Protect (R2P); the violence in Syria; the rebels, who they are, who supports and trains them and where; the Free Syrian Army; the role of the United Nations; the Islamization of the Middle East as an intelligence operation; the role of Israel; the effect of sanctions; media disinformation. Aired: June 13, 2012 http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Scientific forensic evidence of controlled demolition of both World Trade Center Twin Towers, as well as Building 7, on September 11th, 2001; the broad geopolitical and domestic political implications of this scientific evidence; its significance in terms of the institutions and legal framework that has evolved in its wake; the wars these events have spawned. As well, the psychological impediments to incorporating this evidence into our worldview, and testimony from survivors and families of those who perished. Aired: June 20, 2012 http://www.ae911truth.org/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

History of the financial crisis from the early 1980s to the present; economic dimensions of the global crisis; naked short selling; market manipulation; speculative activity; derivatives; solutions to the crisis the cause of further collapse; privatization; government policies; bankruptcies; debt and social breakdown; grassroots organizing; Occupy Wall Street; Ad Busters; CANVAS-OTPOR; Anonymous. Aired: June 27, 2012 http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act; the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act; the 1971 Non-Detention Act; the Crisis of Democracy Report issued by the Trilateral Commission; US Army Field Manual 19-15 Civil Disturbance Operations; the 1992 Weapons Transfer Agreements. Aired: July 11, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Genetic engineering unnaturally crosses the species barrier with unknown long-term consequences; serious health risks associated with ingesting genetically modified food including infertility, immune problems, inflamation, accelerated aging, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system; no long-term scientific studies conducted; regulatory capture by the gmo industry; intimidation of researchers; California Proposition 37. Aired: August 15, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Escalating financial fraud; pump and dump scams; Wall Street banks; auditing fraud; absence of regulation; default or hyperinflation?; currency collapse; the trigger; Japan; China; bank holidays; social cohesion index; City of London; financial repression; confiscation of wealth; derivatives; interest rates; precious metals; the next nine months. Aired: August 22, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

The crime itself; the cover-up; access to evidence, media interpretation; Judge Hellerstein & litigation; Michael Chertoff; 1993 WTC Bombing; persons & companies at Ground Zero; Marc Rich; ICTS; Kroll Associates; Marsh McClenan; AIG; AMDOCS; L. Paul Bremer; Dov Zakheim; Urban Moving Systems; Andreas von Bulow; Zionism; Bollyn's Arrest. Aired: September 5, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Origins of the Islamophobic film, The Innocence of Muslims; the killings in Benghazi, Libya; Mormonism. Aired: October 17, 2012 http://tarpley.net Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org