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Private: JFK’s War With the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated, Part 6

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 1962: An Unbridgeable Gulf Opens Up Between JFK and the Pentagon Over His Resolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis JFK’s Meeting With the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, November 19th, 1962 Thanks to President Kennedy’s secret taping system, and the conscientious efforts of historians Philip D. Zelikow, Ernest R. May, and Timothy Naftali to transcribe the sometimes difficult to understand audio recordings, we now have a very good record of what transpired during countless ExComm meetings, as well as during JFK’s one sole meeting with his Joint Chiefs of Staff during the crisis. Some key excerpts from this startling meeting, revealing the pressure JFK was under to bomb and invade, and to eschew the blockade option, are reproduced below. (Horizontal lines between passages of dialogue indicate where some material has been ...

Challenging the 911 Landlord Law

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On September 19, a federal court in Philadelphia ruled on a challenge to the 911 Landlord Law in Norristown, Pennsylvania. The lawsuit had been brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a local law firm on behalf of Lakisha Briggs. The ruling? A full trial on the challenge to the law can proceed. Such “911 Landlord Laws” are also known as “nuisance” or “crime-free housing” ordinances. The ordinances vary from city to city, but certain elements are common: to keep their rental licenses, landlords are encouraged or required to perform criminal background checks on rental applicants; they are encouraged or required to use a “crime-free lease,” by which any crime on the premises breaks the contract — even if the tenant was a victim and did nothing more than call the police; furthermore, the police can demand eviction of a “nuisance” tenant, and landlords who do not comply can be repeatedly fined or worse. ...

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 ...

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 ...