For me, this was an interesting interview. If I thought that I was aware of some history in the era discussed, I was not as informed as I am after listening. Thank you! The book is a must read, in my view.
Anthony, Sam Sedar of The Majority Report quite commonly has on authors in the first half of his show who have written very interesting books but this does seem like an exceptional read. Being better educated is always a good thing.
I am very glad that you have broadcast this author's excellent and laudable report. We are not 'out of the woods' yet, on this profound issue of national security and our Future as a democratic republic, a government "of, by, and for the people.
I don't really understand why you guys limit time and rush like you do. It's not like you're on broadcast TV and need to fit into a particular schedule. I mention this because I have really enjoyed listening to James Risen. I'm not a US American, but I do know something about your history, and yet this is a totally new topic for me. This was a fascinating and likewise appalling story about extraordinary people - both very good and very bad ones. I could have listened to James Risen speak for hours, and I am left wondering to myself: Why not give me a chance to do that? Just a thought. Thanks for bringing this gifted investigator/author into my room tonight. It was a pleasure to receive him, and I feel just a little bit smarter for having done so.
I have yet to watch this piece (I will now, because I know of Frank Church), but I am forever skeptical of Risen. Not out of ideology or anything. Watch the Democracy Now interview with he and Glenn Greenwald on whether Trump is a traitor. Risen was out of his depth and sucked in by the hysteria. An interesting conversation nonetheless. I have nothing but great disdain for Trump, but the establishment is something else and the Dems are wolves in sheep's clothing (GOP just wolves). All are willing to lie for gain. James Risen is no radical, and was sucked in by "Hitlerizing" of Trump (I do see parallels, but not enough to warrant the hysteria). I don't care about Trump's reputation, I care about the hypocrites and liars laying the charges who still support empire, Wall Street and embrace people like George W. Bush & Kissinger. As many have said, Trump is a symptom, not the disease.
The more I learn about the FBI, CIA, NSA and the State Dept. and our government the more I just HATE THEM. I am sure there is much, much more dirt and corruption we will learn about later.
@@adamgorelick3714 Truth is needed,even if it looks like hating. It's not unpatriotic to show there are problems that need fixing ! Fascists and Communists say the same thing- you hate the Motherland if you criticize how leaders run things.
Trump won because people started to wake up. That was a mistake by the people in power. They miscalculated the amout of cheating they needed. That mistake will not be made again. Whoever runs against Trump will win next year. No matter what. Just watch
Yes but keep in mind, in 1975 about half the Republican senators were to the left of today's Democrats (which admittedly is not very left), and the majority of them considered Ronald Reagan to be an unelectable extremist.
Today Idaho is a cesspool of white supremacy, right wing militias, and far right wing conspiracy theorists. The right wing backlash against the 1960's openings towards democratic governance in the USA....that backlash continues unabated.
Risen is an excellent journalist and I haven't read this book but certainly in this interview, there's no new material. Read Anthony Summers' excellent books, Official & Confidential (on Hoover) and Kennedy Conspiracy for the intelligence-mafia relationship. The Giancana book, Double Cross, also covers intelligence-mafia relationship in some detail.
I'm definitely going to get Mr. Risen book thanks Amy for this interview I have a clearer understanding of those events now. I came up in the Vietnam era
Back then California & New Jersey leaned Republican while West Virginia was as solid for the Democrats as any state in the. union. Social conditions & political coalitions are always changing, & 50 years is an eternity in politics. Idaho & Montana once had a much stronger union presence, which may account for much of their past tendency to elect Democrats. Evangelical Christians weren't organized politically & mostly voted Democrat. In 1976 they even saw one of their own - Jimmy Carter - elected president. The right-wing media complex as we know it today didn't yet exist; & the cultural divide between urban & rural America didn't have the political salience that it has today.
There is in place an American Stasi, the Patriot Act opened the door for such an organization. It is modeled after the East German Stasi and there is no problem finding recruits. A democracy would find little use for such, however an authoritarian regime would find it invaluable for containment and control. There is the added effect of the shredding of trust that helps to break down society. It is in place and has been for some time. 24/7 internet and phone.
They have neural monitoring capabilities folks, they can literally read your mind. See what your thinking. And sit in your head for months, or even years. Be warn, you got to watch what you think
Then they use v2k tech to fuck with you and put you through mk ultra, but everyone around you will think your going crazy and dismiss it all under a mental health crisis. And then dissapear you.
I believe this! I think it works via our eyes. Over and over I'll think of something unusual, uncommon and poof I see it in comments or recommended. It's different than using a word and YT guides you to videos that have those words in the video or comments.
Tony Accardo was the head of the Chicago Outfit, not Giancanna. Accardo was untouchable. Was Accardo who ordered the murder of Giancanna. I plan on reading Mr. Risen’s book. Fascinating. The conquest of The Congo is a fascinating story and tragic. I am sure most of you have read “American power and The new Mandarins” worth revisiting.
This needs to happen again to the CIA and the FBI that's the only thing they have coming !!! They've made it too dangerous for certain veterans to live in this country!
Fantastic and fascinating new information about what I think was the most relevant period in 20th century America. I cannot help having the feeling that, at this point in history, and I hopethis results in a page turning event happening in America, which shifts away from the methods which were used in the past to spy on people,with the ultimate goal being murder, and that we are slowly, but surely, moving towards a time when we have politicians who are honest in their views and policies, instead of what we have now, which is politicians who say one thing, then go and vote against what they have just said. That era must come to an end.
How about wiretapping Trump by the FBI, staging a coup against Trump, and rigging the presidential election in 2020 and the one in 2024? Any comments Amy Goodman and DN?
I'm a third generation Idahoan. I just finished reading this book a few days ago. All the restrictions the Church Committee imposed upon the CIA and U.S. Intelligence was washed away after Reagan appointed William Casey as CIA Director. We went right back to Allen Dulles and his thugery. All the instability in the world since WWII can be linked to U.S. Intelligence. The same crap they pulled on countries in South and Central America, Asia, Italy and the middle east have been pulled on the United States. Ever wonder why no one was arrested during the riots of 2020 except on January 6th? Now do you get it? We have a SECRET GOVERNMENT... and they have been running the show for decades.
This book should be a best seller but I'll be real surprised to see him doing the network news round about. And this book is from things over 50 years ago but our government and its friendly news doesn't like anyone talking I'll of it whether it's the truth or not.
How about wiretapping Trump by the FBI, staging a coup against Trump, and rigging the presidential election in 2020 and the one in 2024? Any comments Amy Goodman and DN?
It would be nice to know which of these organizations, if at all, is behind Organized Stalking, or is it private entities, because it has to be a very powerful and connected group to be able to do what they do unabated.
The dropping of the first two nuclear booms on Japan put fear in the worlds hearts of people by the U.S.A. out of fear, slavery, there was no turning back, that others if not friends, would do the same to America, have shape the American way of thinking, like back then, that fear is still here play out to day...
I think most loving ppl over 60 are in shock witnessing the corruption past present and future; call us idiots , naive or trusting - shock, shocked - waiting for the awe. Denial is a river in Egypt, canoe rental perhaps- sue is what sue does and a pantomime is what?😊❤❤❤
Il y aura toujours une plume pour écrire le futur, mais jamais de gomme pour effacer le passé There will always be a pen to write the future, but never an eraser to erase the past.
You can thank the folks in 1947 for all of this. They were directly responsible for this secrecy. Once they created a "mandate" for just about anything, it became the norm. To think even for a second that change will originate from within is pure naivete. Too many secrets. Why we evolved this way we can only speculate at this point.
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Jose Perdermo was the doorman at the Dakota that night. Operation 40 member. GHW Bush was chief recruiter for Operation 40, a group of anti-Castro Cubans and CIA/military operatives. All warfare is based on deceit.
@@hlnbee The thing I always find funny about them is that even though their existence is publicly acknowledged... most Americans have never heard of them. Which makes them a pretty good place to hide things when Congress starts questioning the better-known intelligence agencies &/or the military. I'm not saying that's happening, simply that it appears logical that it would.
Remember the time the Secret Service let a WH intruder sneak in one night and reach the foot of the staircase leading to Obama's private quarters? I've always been convinced that was their way of warning Obama they wouldn't necessarily protect him at all.
I read a fascinating book some tears ago titled" King Leopold's Ghost," about the conquest of the Congo by the Belgium King. The whole brutal history of the enslavement of the people of Congo by Belgium was hard to read. I wept at the cruelty of the subjugation of a once prosperous nation into one large slave camp. When independence was finally granted, the first Democratically elected leader was Patrice LaMumba. It was President Eisenhower who ordered his assination, in order to install a dictatorial leader who would dance to American interests. Since I had just come of age during this period of history, I am going to find this book. I will recognize many of the key actors. More innocent blood on America's hands. This is not what Drmicracy looks like. If I am not mistaken, Eisenhower played a big part in pulling down The leader if the Phillipines in order to install a corrupt leader who was favorable to American interests. The beat goes on. As Kurt Vonnegut would say, " And so on and so forth."
@@tommcdermott2412 Abroad they usually did not even bother to go through the motions of "democracy." If we had allowed countries to have their elected leaders and use their resources to benefit their own people we might have avoided a lot of the refugee crises around the world today. Look what we have done to Venezuela even trying to "appoint" a new president of our choosing. Allende of Chile was murdered on 9/11/ 73 with help from Kissinger. Bush the First gave the first and only public mention of a New World Order on 9/11/91.
@@jimmcloughlin They were EVIL. Their CIA was plotting with the Bush's EVIL CRIME FAMILY - Grandfather Prescott, Pappy Bush AKA Bush the First, and Shrub Bush AKA Bush the Second. Together, they managed to take the USA down from its peak of world popularity under JFK to the depths of the unwarranted attacks on Afghanistan justified by the Mother of All False Flags 9/11 and the attack on Iraq because of non-existent WMD's only exceeded in perfidy by Trump's orders to sneak attack and kill two generals, one from Iran and the other from Iraq. Neither was involved in acts against the USA. Pappy also supplied the cocaine for the crack epidemic in the USA while doing underhanded deals with Iran and secret but illegal support for the Contras in Nicaragua which spilled over to El Salvador and Honduras. It was his fellow Texas Oil Tycoon and Political Supporter's son who almost drilled Ronald Reagan through the heart, leaving NO DOUBT who "called the shots" in the Reagan Administration. They undermined the Middle Class with their tax breaks for the rich and their planned housing crises of the Savings & Loans destruction in the late '80's and the planned Bank Failures and Foreclosures on Mortgages in 2007-2008.
Thank you. I was in High School when Eisenhower was president. For some reason things he said and did made no sense to me. The saying back then was, Everyone loves Ike, but I did not. When I finally got a computer I started looking him up and found out he was evil. It seemed to me Eisenhower favored Nazism.
While all of this may seem shocking, I was a student protester during the Vietnam War. My boyfriend at the time(1968) was pulled from the lottery and forced to participate in the war. He was deeply opposed to the war, and we parted company as he fled to Canada. For several years afterwards, I kept receiving official letters from the CIA demanding I reveal my friends whereabouts. I had no clue where he was nor would I have disclosed that information if I did. I knew I was being watched, even though I was insignificant.
Omg, the red scare and the fear of the people protesting grotesque injsutices, which in turn was fear of unionizing, serious blockades, put all of these together and you get...the will of the people, and they were more afraid of this than anything. Btw, the CIA at that time, as declassified documents proves, did not only do a bad bad baaaad job on intelligence but had no problem act as scare mongers to keep their further funding going. But in the end, they just made everything worse, scared people into buying frickin "assemble at gome in your own back yard" bomb shelters and being afraid all the time, meanwhile...they just toppled democracies by funding fascist coups in central/south america, spied on their own citicens and...well, they were just bad people. I'm from Sweden, (have my own experience with intelligence trying to infiltrate and also attempt to disrupt meetings with plants, they were bad plants and they were bad at spying at that time, but at one point, they tried to stamp some groups as terrorist groups, but then 9/11 happened, which kinda showed the whole world how ridiculous this was, so we were spared,) but it doesn't come close to your experiences. Im sorry you had to go through this Sparrow
Sheesh. I was in primary school when Castro came touring the states after toppling Batista. My teacher said to write to someone in the news. So I looked at my Weekly Reader and there was Fidel on the cover. I wrote a very simple letter just saying that I hoped he'd lead his country better than his predecessor, "which shouldn't be too hard since Batista was so bad." FBI came out of the woodwork. A child doing a school assignment. I'm probably lucky nobody sic'd the CIA on me. But it did nothing to encourage me to lean to the right as I grew older either. In fact, quite the opposite. Around the age of 12 or so, I grew increasingly aware of my internal politics.
Friendly old Brit: I took great pleasure in reading that since I have long since held Cuba's current state is down to US policy on trade and economic embargo which still stands today despite UN condemnation. The fact that he was a leftie and on the doorstep and wanted improvement for the Cuban peasant and not American money clearing began his problems.
@frostyfrances4700 At that tender age you knew far more about the US foreign policy than most people do even today. I remember so many used to scratch their heads and wonder why the USA was so hated around the world after all that "Foreign Aid" we gave them. There are not many asking that question any more.
The scary thing is, I bet this book barely scratches the surface. Eventually, I'm sure, James Risen hit brick walls--hidden documents, disappearing paper trails, dead informants, officials& politicians who said 'no comment', criminals who disappeared--beyond which he could not probe. US history is so much more than the **known** US history. "The Last Honest Man" sounds incredibly dense & complex, but fascinating.
@Tothelighthouse Yeah, there will always be things like JFKs assassination, or the true involvement of the CIA/US role in Lumumba’s, but Risen has some incredible stuff here. Even Truman knew how corrupt and ruthless JE Hoover was, yet paralyzed to stop him. Hopefully this book has details of James Jesus Angleton’s nefarious behind the scenes Cold War shenanigans. The quest for control of the world’s resources was insane. Still is
People like Risen surely see the massive EMBEZZLING SCAM, yet they never expose it. Corrupt Congress has been enabling, participating in, and HIDING the embezzling, while both criminal gangs in power just PRETEND to fight each other. The corrupt embezzling sociopaths in power lie to keep us duped; learn the truth and we can be very effective in fighting the inhumane liars. Vaxes, wars, digital IDs, social credit, and all the entities to control and squash us under the guise of caring about the climate - carbon tracking, ESG, 15-minute cities, etc - are PRIVATIZED, which is the major way they embezzle fiat government money. It is CRUCIAL for us to know the scam the US has done here and in all countries it takes over. The overview/exposé below is just 6 paragraphs, and shows us what is behind the curtain of lies they dupe us with. Information is power, and knowing what the scammers hide from us will mean we can do good OFFENSE and be effective in fighting the corrupt liars, not just keep reacting as the sociopaths continue to escalate their tyranny and oppression, and take everything from us. Here is what the US criminals have done all over the world, since WW2: 1. Take over a country by coup, assassination, lies about government being corrupt or by threat or invasion so they can... 2. Implement their EMBEZZLING scam of "privatization", taking over government services & systems and national assets so the corrupt liars can handle fiat government money & BILL THE GOVERNMENT ANY AMOUNT for running such things; they provide themselves with massive exec salaries and insanely high profits, becoming oligarchs and billionaires. 3. Lie to the public ENDLESSLY to keep us duped. 4. Praise leaders who submit to US corruption & demonize leaders who RESIST or reverse it - like Putin, who reversed the US plundering done under US puppet Yeltsin, like Chavez and Maduro in Venezuela, like Gaddafi wanting things nationalized and government money going to THE PEOPLE, like Morales in Bolivia, like Assad who said NO to a US pipeline through Syria, and so on. We also need to know that the demonization of both Russia and China is part of the multipronged US sabotage of the BRICS coalition since 2006. The greedy sociopathic money ADDICTS hate that those two countries are doing fair deals with other countries and helping them escape US control, corruption, privatization and loansharking. Also, vax co's & digital ID systems to control & subjugate us are "privatized" (as are quarantine camps). The scheme was to get TRILLIONS from many govts FOREVER while arranging to squash us so we could never rise up to stop their corruption, tyranny and inhumanity. They tried many pandemics previously to enrich themselves with government money; this was the most coordinated one - and used the most coercion. More specifics re "privatization" embezzling: Yes, in general a government can issue ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY for anything that is physically possible; the corrupt know this and have used that knowledge to scam the public and embezzle government money. They take over government services, conning the public about "saving money" and being "more efficient", but those are lies. The costs actually become higher because the corrupt liars overbill the govt for everything, billing ANY AMOUNT, providing massive exec salaries and insanely high profits, as already mentioned. And they give us REDUCED services, because their sociopathic greed and money addiction means they take more for themselves and do not supply what they are supposed to supply for us. Basically, the US has built a global corruption cartel, taking over countries (and their media) to EMBEZZLE from their governments. The UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand were coopted and corrupted in the 70s-80s; the massive embezzling that ensued by taking over the many dozens of government services, support systems, assets and resources they had is what gave rise to the billionaire class in the 80s! We need a successful INTERVENTION on the lunatic money addicts in power who lie, destroy and KILL for more "money fixes". They are totally UNFIT TO GOVERN and should face charges of dereliction of duty, violating the Constitution, embezzling federal money, crimes against humanity, violating the Nuremberg code, war crimes and more.
