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Private: JFK’s War With the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated, Part 5

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 1962: An Overview of the Cuban Missile Crisis  Khrushchev’s Risky and Dangerous Gamble: Operation Anadyr In April of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev met with the Soviet Defense Council at the Pitsunda resort on the Black Sea; during this conference he was informed that the Soviet Union’s armed forces could neither successfully defend the homeland, nor would they be able to respond militarily afterwards, in the event of a nuclear first-strike by the United States on the USSR.  The receipt of this bad news was the stimulus that inspired Khrushchev to place Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.  The goal was twofold: to serve as a deterrent to a possible U.S. invasion, and to redress the extreme imbalance in strategic (nuclear) weapons, and their delivery systems, that then existed between the United States and the ...

Private: JFK’s War With the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated, Part 4

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 Early 1962: Cuba — To Invade, or Not To Invade?  The Situation at Year’s End, 1961 As revealed in the first three parts of this essay, when 1961 came to a close President Kennedy found himself seriously at odds with the entrenched, hard-core leadership within the CIA and the Pentagon. Allen Dulles and Richard Bissell of the CIA had persuaded the new President to support the CIA-sponsored Cuban exile invasion of our nearest neighbor, just 90 miles from Florida, in an attempt to topple the Castro regime and install a new Cuban government once again favorable to the United States and its geopolitical and business interests. President Kennedy was himself the victim of the ultimate CIA covert operation in the Bay of Pigs affair, for Dulles knew (even if Bissell did not) that ...

Stop Demonizing Iran

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Not everyone wants the United States to improve relations with Iran. Some prefer war instead. Not because Iran is a threat to the American people, or the Israelis, but because a friendly Iran would no longer furnish the convenient enemy the hawks in the United States and Israel need. So, despite overtures from the new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s regime must still be demonized as a group of religious fanatics — mad mullahs — who cannot be reasoned with and who want nothing more than to lob nuclear warheads at the United States and Israel. Nonsense. Over a decade ago, Iran’s leaders made credible offers of cooperation with the United States that included peace with Israel. In fact, after the 9/11 attacks, the Iranian government tried to cooperate with the Bush administration on a number of fronts. The two sides actually began working together at the end of 2001, until hawkish American officials put a stop to it, as ...

The War Between JFK and the National-Security State

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The Atlantic has published a fascinating article entitled “JFK vs. the Military” by Kennedy biographer Robert Dallek which details the war that was taking place between President Kennedy and the U.S. national-security state establishment. While this has long been a subject of interest to Kennedy assassination researchers, it’s not the type of thing that mainstream authors and mainstream ...

Syria Remains a Target of the U.S. Empire

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A Russian diplomatic initiative has forestalled U.S. military strikes against Syria. The U.S.-Russian-Syrian agreement would have Bashar al-Assad’s regime turn over its chemical-weapons to the UN Security Council so that they can be destroyed under international control. The deal was proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an apparently off-the-cuff remark suggesting that ...