Some excepts from my book, The Management of Savagery, on the 9/11 attacks.

This one covers the Saudi government’s operational role in the attacks and the CIA’s concealment of knowledge about Saudi operatives al-Hazmi & Midhar’s involvement in the plot. versobooks.com/books/3154-the…
As the GW Bush administration ignored a briefing about Al Qaeda’s intention to attack inside the US, a ratings-hungry US corporate media spent the summer of 2001 reporting on a non-existent Sharknado. And Wolfowitz gave a speech in 6/01 on “missed signals” ahead of Pearl Harbor.
This was how America’s top drive time host, Howard Stern, conveyed the 9/11 attacks to the public in real time. It was a genocidal tirade that channeled the Islamophobia & imperialist military rampage to come. cc: @paulkrugman
The paperback edition of The Management of Savagery is out now.

I tell the story of how the CIA’s Afghan proxy war helped lay the foundation for the 9/11 attacks, how those attacks set the stage for the rise of Donald Trump, and how the US repeated its folly in Libya & Syria.

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13 Sep
I just read @RichardMNephew's "The Art of Sanctions."

Nephew, ex-Obama State Dept sanctions coordinator, clinically & chillingly details how pain is the essence of the US global sanctions regime.

Unfortunately, he hasn't been honest about the contents of his own book. Thread: ImageImage
Nephew claimed he never wrote that sanctions are designed to hurt ordinary people.

Yet here he describes sanctions against Iran that he personally designed and which wrecked the country's economy & currency, caused mass unemployment and inflation, as a "tremendous success" ImageImage
Nephew pats himself & the Obama admin on the back for tripling the price of chicken "during important Iranian holiday periods" and preventing Iranians from repairing their cars.

At the same time, the US expanded imports of communications tech to Iran to foment social unrest. ImageImage
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7 Sep
I investigated the campaign to suppress "Planet of the Humans" and found the network of professional activists behind it is backed by the same "green" billionaires, Wall Street investors, and non-profit industrial complex skewered in the film. thegrayzone.com/2020/09/07/gre…
The most provocative critique in Planet of the Humans was of professional "climate justice" activists as de facto PR agents for the renewables industry & Wall Street investor class focused on a $40-50 trillion profit center. My investigation bore this out: thegrayzone.com/2020/09/07/gre…
"Cleantech" tycoon Tom Dinwoodie signed @joshfoxfilm's letter demanding POTH be retracted. Dinwoodie owns scores of solar patents, reaped $1.2 billion in govt subsidies under Obama & sponsors a think tank partnered w/big banks. He also co-produced Fox's latest performance.
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11 Aug
Since we exposed fake Xinjiang "expert" @AdrianZenz as a fanatic and fraud, his fellow Cold Warriors have been working overtime to suppress our factual reporting.

Coda Story is a Mockingbird-style op funded by the US gov't via @NEDemocracy – which was spun out of the CIA. Thread
Coda Story's @antelava is lying when she says her outlet is independent. It's backed by NED – the regime change arm of the US gov't, founded out of Bill Casey's CIA. And it partners w/ US-run @RFERL (formerly Radio Liberation from Bolshevism), to pump propaganda into Russia.
Coda Story's Isobel Cockerell is also following the US regime script, smearing skeptics of official Cold War propaganda on Xinjiang w/o disputing their facts.

Cockerell was recognized by the US govt's NED & honored by tech oligarchs (Luminate = Omidyar).
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21 Jul
Expert witnesses on UK parliament’s Russia report: a fugitive vulture fund director, two neocon kooks, a discredited spook & the founder of the covert Integrity Initiative meddling mill, who sought to exploit the Cold War to increase the military budget. thegrayzone.com/2018/12/17/ins…
The UK Russia report calls for more MI5 involvement in elections and social media.

What could go wrong?
Seems the British establishment is still looking to dismiss Brexit voters as Russian dupes. Again, it appeals for more MI5 activity.
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3 Jul
John Bolton cited my interview with Venezuelan Pres. Nicolás Maduro in his book.

But Bolton deceptively claimed Maduro’s accusation was triggered by the failed 2019 US humanitarian aid stunt he spearheaded.

In fact, Maduro was referring to an August 2018 attempt on his life.
Bolton claimed Maduro accused him of trying to kill him because he was "troubled" by a humanitarian aid stunt he masterminded.

But Maduro clearly stated in our interview, "I have proof the [August 2018] assassination attempt was ordered by John Bolton"
Here's video of the failed August 2018 attempt to assassinate Maduro, which he blamed on Bolton, Colombian intel & the right-wing opposition.

Interesting that @AmbJohnBolton didn't mention this in his memoir, and that he misrepresented Maduro's direct accusation so deceptively.
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28 Jun
A dubious story about Russia paying bounties to the Taliban to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan appeared in the New York Times. It was sourced entirely to "American intelligence officials."

Former CIA operations director John Stockwell explained how Langley works the US media:
If the NYT story is somehow true – and it's hard to see why the Taliban needs any outside encouragement to fight an occupying army – the bounties could be seen as retaliation for the US strategy against Russia in Syria, as described here by former CIA director @MichaelJMorell
The story planted by US intel in the NYT sounds like the US playbook in Syria (and in Afghanistan from 1979-89).

Consider this exchange:

Charlie Rose: "We make them pay the price by killing Russians?"

@MichaelJMorell: "Yes."

"And killing Iranians?"

Morell: "Yes. Covertly."
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