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Today's headlines:
The Bush Dynasty & the Carlyle Group;
“In Whose Interest”: A New Documentary About US
Foreign Policy Since WWII;
The Knight Report
8:00:00 PM PST
Dennis Bernstein: introduction: in depth look at the Carlyle
Group.. Robert Knight explores the Saudi bombings..
8:00:50 PM PST
Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: Scores killed
overnight by car bombs in Saudi Arabia.. at first Powell says
10 American deaths.. then Cheney says 91 died.. later downsized
to 29 dead.. Spook Corp.. 40,000 US contractors helping the
Saudi royals with 'defence'.. one target: Venell, the USA's
*little mercenary army*.. a subsidiary of TRW.. and in Iraq,
the return of Sheik.. clash with Paul Bremmer, formerly of
Kissinger Associates.. and clashing with two other religious
leaders..
8:05:34 PM PST
Dennis: what do James Baker, George Bush I, Frank Carlucchi,
Arthur Levitt, the bin Laden family have in common?.. all
business members of one of the largest, most secret, wealthiest
multi-national corporations ever.. Carlyle Group.. now w Dan
Briody, author of 'The Iron Triangle, Inside The Secret World
of the Carlyle Group'.. Dan: Carlyle used to own the Venell
Corporation, now a subsidiary of TRW.. Carlyle owned the building
that was bombed.. Venell has been training the Saudi National
Guard for 20 years.. from a review of Dan's book:
Dwight D. Eisenhower, upon leaving the office of president
in 1961, warned future generations against the dangers of
a "military-industrial complex," and the "grave
implications" of the "conjunction of an immense
military establishment and a large arms industry." The
wisdom of these comments has clearly been lost in the forty
years since Ike left office. And the first step towards turning
things around is understanding how we got here. No single
company can illustrate that progression better than the Carlyle
Group, a business founded on a tax scheme in 1987 that has
grown up to be what its own marketing literature once called
"a vast interlocking global network." The company
does business at the confluence of the war on terrorism and
corporate responsibility. It is a world that few of us can
even imagine, full of clandestine meetings, quid pro quo deals,
bitter ironies, and petty jealousies. And the cast of characters
includes some of the most famous and powerful men in the world.
This is today’s America. This is the Carlyle Group.
8:30:00 PM PST
KPFA Pledge Break, with Dennis Bernstein.. please call 510-848-5732
or 800-439-5732, and stand up for Free Speech Radio.. no further
review tonight..
8:59:41 PM PST
End today's show. today's review by John Lionheart
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