I really enjoy your editorials, Mr. Kunstler... you're quite a gifted writer. The podcast with Mr. Jeffries re: the JFK assassination brought a couple of things to mind. There is a ton of publications on the subject, but no discussion of JFK assassination theories is complete without referencing the investigative masterpiece written by Russ Baker and his team of investigators, titled, "Family of Secrets," and subtitled: "The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years." This opus magnus is the culmination of Baker's 25 year-in depth investigation of the Bush patriarch Prescott Bush, his son, George H.W., and grandson George W., and an in depth analysis of Bush family cohorts and minions. I am convinced that Baker was on to something when he published this book. He develops a very strong circumstantial case for George H.W
being the mastermind behind the assassination of JFK by dredging up a treasure trove of personal letters, memos, and other documentary proof of HW's leading role in that murder. Back in the 50's and 60's-- before the advent of the internet and email and text and voice mail, there were only two mainstream forms of communication: telephone and postal mail. Baker establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that HW laid an intricate series of predicates based on his correspondence to 3rd parties, to distance himself as a direct link to the JFK murder. He also recruited acquaintances who in turn recruited dupes, such as Oswald, to set the crime scene so that the real trigger men (not Oswald) could work unencumbered, with the help of corrupt higher-ups in the Secret Service and Dallas Police to perform the actual kill-shots that took out JFK. Then Baker goes further and shows (through additional, convincing circumstantail evidence) that HW then had his 3rd party minions taken out by his CIA assassins so as to eliminate any potential witness against him. I dont mind telling you, that at the time I read this book, I was a hard-sell when it came to conspiracy theories. When my son- who was in law school at the time- gave me this book for my birthday, I figured that I would blitz through it in a day or two, as I am a very fast reader. At the time, George H.W. was a sort of a hero to me; what was there not to like about a debonair and polished politician from Houston (I'm a loyal Texan) who as the Director of the CIA, installed Noriega as the murderous, maniac dictator of Panama, and then a few years later as President of the U.S., had him removed, extradited and convicted in US federal court. So Baker's book was a shock to my psyche and disturbed me greatly: I read every paragraph of every page with a jaundiced eye and could only make it through 2-3 pages in a sitting, I was so disturbed by what I was reading. How could this be true? How could a future American president, son and neophyte of Prescott Bush, a few years later as a behind-the-scenes- CIA enabler mastermind the assassination of a sitting president, especially one so beloved by Catholic hispanics, like myself. But Baker painstakingly screwed together an airtight, circumstantial evidence argument that is irrefutable, and in the end I was depressed for months at what I was forced to comprehend. Mind you I have been a criminal defense attorney in federal court for 40 years and have represented defendants in 17 states, and while I will never claim to be the smartest lawyer, I do know a thing or two about circumstantial evidence, such as, a jury can legally base their verdict of guilty in a criminal case upon circumstantial evidence. It was 9 or 10 years ago when I read Baker's masterpiece. Since then I have followed a trajectory like the one described by Mr. Jeffries-- as a staunch democrat of the 60's, I was bamboozled by Obama's glib rhetoric, partly because I was so sick and tired of George W.'s jackassiness, the 9/11 debacle, and other stuff. Now I am a staunch Trump supporter for the same reasons that Jeffries mentions, although I dont believe that Trump is a lessor evil, therefore better than the opposition. Over the years I have painstakingly researched Mr. Trump, and while there is no human being that is perfect, I do believe that Trump wears his heart on his sleeve, and has gone through inmeasurable personal sacrifice to try to lead this country out of the clutches of the "invisible government," although that is probably going to wind up being an impossible task for one man. As an aside, I recently came across Russ Baker's website, and I was excited to join it to see what this tremendous investogammm
investigative journalist was up too. I was very disappointed to discover that he suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and spends most of his energy disparaging Trump and his followers. In conclusion, a heart-felt thank you, Mr. Kunstler, for your very special writings and editorials. My son, who is a brilliant lawyer now and my law partner and I comment from time to time after reading one of your editorial masterpieces, "Wow! Imagine sitting some afternoon with Mr. Kunstler, smoking a fine cigar, sipping some fine Scotch, and prognosticating what the future holds for us all! Now that would be a blast! Please take care and keep the editorials coming!
Lovely comment, sir. Deliberate, erudite, and reasoned. So I hate to break it to you but, I have it on good authority -- from top men, mind you, men who cast no shadow -- that James Howard Kuntsler is in truth the nom de plume of Jeb Bush. (Dios mio, I hope you're laughing now.)
Mr Guerra, one other reason occurs for Russ Baker’s decision to put on a public display of TDS. The current regime might not look kindly on any other investigations from someone that is very much in their crosshairs.
If the man has a family, he has to be smart.
Also since you’re an attorney, remember the week before the first shot taken at Trump what was in the news? The SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity, which Dems were decrying loud and long in public, but evidently taking to heart in private. I mean is it actually illegal for a sitting president to take out a political opponent he deems a threat to democracy? Since he has immunity, and all.
Wow. This blows my mind. I happen to have a completely different take on 9/11 than everyone else in the world. I understood it perfectly as an act of God, against the Bushies and the corrupt deep state powers that Ross Perot hinted at. All the miraculous things people say that happened unnaturally did happen unnaturally- the angel of destruction unleashed as a sign and a warning to those who have ears to hear
I had an inkling of the evil because of an eyewitness testimony I heard of a rational woman who swore she saw HW turn into an alien being in front of her eyes in the Oval Office - but I never got the depth of the evil in charge - then and now! Thanks for sharing this.
I am convinced that Dick Cheney, as vice president, through his finger puppet, George W., as president, allowed Mossad and other deep state agencies to create the 9/11 false flag to sway public opinion enough to justify the invasion of Irac. (Netflix had an excellent documentary that may have already been culled, "In Plane Sight," which revealed the planning, preparation and execution by the deep state that went into the 9/11 charade.) What would have been the motive(s)? First, it gave George W. an opportunity to get back at Hussein for almost killing George HW during a visit to Kuwait, when one of Hussein's missiles exploded not too far from where HW was standing. Second, the Ramaila Oil Fields were taken over by US SOCOM and exploited by our own No, unfortunately I am convinced that Dick Cheney, through his finger puppet, George W., allowed Mossad and other deep state agencies to create the 9/11 false flag to sway public opinion enough to justify the invasion of Irac. What would have been the motive(s)? First, it gave George W. an opportunity to get back at Hussein for almost killing George HW during a visit to Kuwait
military petroleum engineers.
How do I know this? The Navy seal commander (who is also a genius petroleum engineer with vast experience in the petroleum Asian theater) in charge of the invasion of the oil fields, and later in charge of the continued operation of the oil fields, told me personally, that this was the main reason for the invasion of Irac, to exploit the Rumaila oilfield operation-- comprised at the time of 6 giant refineries that were generating approx 6 Billion in USD a month in 2004 when this occurred. The commandos swept in on helicopter gunships and they murdered off the Iraqi personnel manning the oil field. So much for the "weapons of mass destruction" theory that George W. managed to verbalize without stammering or stuttering. But back to your initial statement about Mr. Baker's TDS... I don't believe that he feels that threatened by the Biden/Obama/Hillary/Nuland RICO operation to where he's lost the balls he had when he went after George HW in "Family of Secrets." If anything, HW was much more of a dangerous target to expose because of his previous experience and expertise taking out heads of state throughout the middle east and latin America with his CIA wet teams, perfecting the Special Access Program- initiatives for clandestine assassinations when Hillary was still a Rhodes Scholar, honing her charming scholastic wit, and later getting her feet wet with the first few clumsy assassinations such as Whitewater, before assuming the mantle of chief assassinator as Secretary of State for Barack Hussein Obama.
A guy who wrote a book on the JFK assassination? Grrr , I thought I would dislike it , but it was Kunstler , so I gave it a listen.
I was pleasantly surprised. One of the things I liked was the term , " liberal " came up.
Somewhere along the line " liberal " became a dirty word , and I can't reckon why.
Modern progressives are anything but liberal ! They don't believe in free speech , don't believe in live and let live , they aren't on the side of the common man.
I have seen Kunstler on TV before , but when it's just voice he sounds young . They both sounded young .
In a sense of duty to one of my favorite observers of the zeitgeist (JHK) I would like to comment on the JFK Assassination since I do have a rare perspective on the event.
Along with Oliver Stone and other with dogs in the fight, I was a featured speaker at both of the major 50th Anniv Conferences on the Assassination. This, owing to my relationship with KGB while living in Moscow and working on many State media projects. I made an agreement with KGB to develop their historical "IP".
(This experience alone would justify an HBO Movie - methinks.)
My most engulfing project turned out to be "Passport to Assassination", the book which resulted from my collaboration with KGB Colonel Oleg Maximovich Nechiporenko, who was one of the KGB officers at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City in 1963 who was involved with the Oswald "encounters" and had some skill in writing.
I was read-in to the surveillance archives KGB kept on LHO in both Moscow and more deeply ... Minsk. Over a period of 2 years, I absorbed the contents of the Archives and a lot more time developing relationships with some of the most fascinating - and formidable men in the World.
One of them was Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny - in power during the entire Oswald defection period. He had been Chairman of KGB and had a long leadership tenure at Lubyanka during a tumultous period of Soviet history. Another client of mine was General Nikolai Sergeevich Leonov, a close friend of both Castro brothers - who, as a senior officer of KGB at the Mexico Rezidentura, also met with Oswald. Little has been discussed about that encounter. Leonov rose to be #2 at KGB's foreign intelligence Directorate and oversaw the most impressive penetrations of US Intelligence in history. I become quite close to the enigmatic Valery Vladimirovich Kostikov, who, Oswald's dyslexic mind misremembered as "Comrade Kostin". Valery's dominance in the Warrren Report was rooted in the fact that he was, indeed, a lead operative in KGB Dept. 13, responsible for sabotage, chaos creation and ... yes ... "Wet Affairs." My many dinners with him enabled me to vicariously understand the life of a KGB master of one of the most kinetic areas of Intelligence operations. Evenings at his home, lubricated by many, many shots of proper Russian Stoly, while "eyes-to-eyes" privileged me to stories which haunt me to this day. I must finally write about at least some of what he said. His death has lifted the implicit embargo.
Between 1991 and 1994, my entire Worldview transformed. Most notably, my view of the Assassination changed. I had come to the Soviet Union as a card-carrying member of the "Oliver Stone JFK Conspiracy Caucus". By the time I finished my PhD on Oswald-ology at the Andropov Institute ... I understood clearly that Oswald did it and did it alone.
Why do I make such a bold assertion? Because in the act of digesting the fact-chain contained in the archive of Oswald (Moscow codename: "Likhoi") ... you inevitably arrive at the conclusion that he was bat-shit crazy.
There is now so much noise and so much endless conjecture and so much *industry* that now surrounds (or moreso smothers) the terrible Event, that any and all Theories both plausible and insane presently pollute what ultimately became, for me, a crystal lake of factual clarity.
Before I spring from this mortal coil I hope to commit to "letters" what brought me to my inescapable conclusion - with all its attendant absurdity.
But, lest I leave completely unsated the kind readers who have come this far on this missive, let me simply exclaim that ... a 6.5×52mm Mannlicher-Schönauer round from a Carcano rifle is a most effective Equalizer of Men.
Thank you Jim, you've personally kept me sane for the 15 or 16 years from way back in the Duncan Crary days. I've been meaning to support you and sent you 250 bucks. Thank you for improving my apprehension and elocution regarding the world around me. Cheers, from a large animal veterinarian in Washington state.
There’s a lot of bitterness towards women from men nowadays I notice. But there’s been even more bitterness towards men for a much longer time and it can’t but help cause a reaction; which in turn causes an overreaction and good relationships are harder and harder to maintain 😔
I really enjoy your editorials, Mr. Kunstler... you're quite a gifted writer. The podcast with Mr. Jeffries re: the JFK assassination brought a couple of things to mind. There is a ton of publications on the subject, but no discussion of JFK assassination theories is complete without referencing the investigative masterpiece written by Russ Baker and his team of investigators, titled, "Family of Secrets," and subtitled: "The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years." This opus magnus is the culmination of Baker's 25 year-in depth investigation of the Bush patriarch Prescott Bush, his son, George H.W., and grandson George W., and an in depth analysis of Bush family cohorts and minions. I am convinced that Baker was on to something when he published this book. He develops a very strong circumstantial case for George H.W
being the mastermind behind the assassination of JFK by dredging up a treasure trove of personal letters, memos, and other documentary proof of HW's leading role in that murder. Back in the 50's and 60's-- before the advent of the internet and email and text and voice mail, there were only two mainstream forms of communication: telephone and postal mail. Baker establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that HW laid an intricate series of predicates based on his correspondence to 3rd parties, to distance himself as a direct link to the JFK murder. He also recruited acquaintances who in turn recruited dupes, such as Oswald, to set the crime scene so that the real trigger men (not Oswald) could work unencumbered, with the help of corrupt higher-ups in the Secret Service and Dallas Police to perform the actual kill-shots that took out JFK. Then Baker goes further and shows (through additional, convincing circumstantail evidence) that HW then had his 3rd party minions taken out by his CIA assassins so as to eliminate any potential witness against him. I dont mind telling you, that at the time I read this book, I was a hard-sell when it came to conspiracy theories. When my son- who was in law school at the time- gave me this book for my birthday, I figured that I would blitz through it in a day or two, as I am a very fast reader. At the time, George H.W. was a sort of a hero to me; what was there not to like about a debonair and polished politician from Houston (I'm a loyal Texan) who as the Director of the CIA, installed Noriega as the murderous, maniac dictator of Panama, and then a few years later as President of the U.S., had him removed, extradited and convicted in US federal court. So Baker's book was a shock to my psyche and disturbed me greatly: I read every paragraph of every page with a jaundiced eye and could only make it through 2-3 pages in a sitting, I was so disturbed by what I was reading. How could this be true? How could a future American president, son and neophyte of Prescott Bush, a few years later as a behind-the-scenes- CIA enabler mastermind the assassination of a sitting president, especially one so beloved by Catholic hispanics, like myself. But Baker painstakingly screwed together an airtight, circumstantial evidence argument that is irrefutable, and in the end I was depressed for months at what I was forced to comprehend. Mind you I have been a criminal defense attorney in federal court for 40 years and have represented defendants in 17 states, and while I will never claim to be the smartest lawyer, I do know a thing or two about circumstantial evidence, such as, a jury can legally base their verdict of guilty in a criminal case upon circumstantial evidence. It was 9 or 10 years ago when I read Baker's masterpiece. Since then I have followed a trajectory like the one described by Mr. Jeffries-- as a staunch democrat of the 60's, I was bamboozled by Obama's glib rhetoric, partly because I was so sick and tired of George W.'s jackassiness, the 9/11 debacle, and other stuff. Now I am a staunch Trump supporter for the same reasons that Jeffries mentions, although I dont believe that Trump is a lessor evil, therefore better than the opposition. Over the years I have painstakingly researched Mr. Trump, and while there is no human being that is perfect, I do believe that Trump wears his heart on his sleeve, and has gone through inmeasurable personal sacrifice to try to lead this country out of the clutches of the "invisible government," although that is probably going to wind up being an impossible task for one man. As an aside, I recently came across Russ Baker's website, and I was excited to join it to see what this tremendous investogammm
investigative journalist was up too. I was very disappointed to discover that he suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and spends most of his energy disparaging Trump and his followers. In conclusion, a heart-felt thank you, Mr. Kunstler, for your very special writings and editorials. My son, who is a brilliant lawyer now and my law partner and I comment from time to time after reading one of your editorial masterpieces, "Wow! Imagine sitting some afternoon with Mr. Kunstler, smoking a fine cigar, sipping some fine Scotch, and prognosticating what the future holds for us all! Now that would be a blast! Please take care and keep the editorials coming!
Lovely comment, sir. Deliberate, erudite, and reasoned. So I hate to break it to you but, I have it on good authority -- from top men, mind you, men who cast no shadow -- that James Howard Kuntsler is in truth the nom de plume of Jeb Bush. (Dios mio, I hope you're laughing now.)
Mr Guerra, one other reason occurs for Russ Baker’s decision to put on a public display of TDS. The current regime might not look kindly on any other investigations from someone that is very much in their crosshairs.
If the man has a family, he has to be smart.
Also since you’re an attorney, remember the week before the first shot taken at Trump what was in the news? The SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity, which Dems were decrying loud and long in public, but evidently taking to heart in private. I mean is it actually illegal for a sitting president to take out a political opponent he deems a threat to democracy? Since he has immunity, and all.
Wow. This blows my mind. I happen to have a completely different take on 9/11 than everyone else in the world. I understood it perfectly as an act of God, against the Bushies and the corrupt deep state powers that Ross Perot hinted at. All the miraculous things people say that happened unnaturally did happen unnaturally- the angel of destruction unleashed as a sign and a warning to those who have ears to hear
I had an inkling of the evil because of an eyewitness testimony I heard of a rational woman who swore she saw HW turn into an alien being in front of her eyes in the Oval Office - but I never got the depth of the evil in charge - then and now! Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks, James!
Two of my favorite writers in one place! Who says that things aren't looking better!? (well, all three of us, but still...)
I am convinced that Dick Cheney, as vice president, through his finger puppet, George W., as president, allowed Mossad and other deep state agencies to create the 9/11 false flag to sway public opinion enough to justify the invasion of Irac. (Netflix had an excellent documentary that may have already been culled, "In Plane Sight," which revealed the planning, preparation and execution by the deep state that went into the 9/11 charade.) What would have been the motive(s)? First, it gave George W. an opportunity to get back at Hussein for almost killing George HW during a visit to Kuwait, when one of Hussein's missiles exploded not too far from where HW was standing. Second, the Ramaila Oil Fields were taken over by US SOCOM and exploited by our own No, unfortunately I am convinced that Dick Cheney, through his finger puppet, George W., allowed Mossad and other deep state agencies to create the 9/11 false flag to sway public opinion enough to justify the invasion of Irac. What would have been the motive(s)? First, it gave George W. an opportunity to get back at Hussein for almost killing George HW during a visit to Kuwait
military petroleum engineers.
How do I know this? The Navy seal commander (who is also a genius petroleum engineer with vast experience in the petroleum Asian theater) in charge of the invasion of the oil fields, and later in charge of the continued operation of the oil fields, told me personally, that this was the main reason for the invasion of Irac, to exploit the Rumaila oilfield operation-- comprised at the time of 6 giant refineries that were generating approx 6 Billion in USD a month in 2004 when this occurred. The commandos swept in on helicopter gunships and they murdered off the Iraqi personnel manning the oil field. So much for the "weapons of mass destruction" theory that George W. managed to verbalize without stammering or stuttering. But back to your initial statement about Mr. Baker's TDS... I don't believe that he feels that threatened by the Biden/Obama/Hillary/Nuland RICO operation to where he's lost the balls he had when he went after George HW in "Family of Secrets." If anything, HW was much more of a dangerous target to expose because of his previous experience and expertise taking out heads of state throughout the middle east and latin America with his CIA wet teams, perfecting the Special Access Program- initiatives for clandestine assassinations when Hillary was still a Rhodes Scholar, honing her charming scholastic wit, and later getting her feet wet with the first few clumsy assassinations such as Whitewater, before assuming the mantle of chief assassinator as Secretary of State for Barack Hussein Obama.
Why are you still dubious about the John Birch Society? We know that WFB was a CIA plant. The JBS was right about everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blq-Dzc6c6k
A guy who wrote a book on the JFK assassination? Grrr , I thought I would dislike it , but it was Kunstler , so I gave it a listen.
I was pleasantly surprised. One of the things I liked was the term , " liberal " came up.
Somewhere along the line " liberal " became a dirty word , and I can't reckon why.
Modern progressives are anything but liberal ! They don't believe in free speech , don't believe in live and let live , they aren't on the side of the common man.
I have seen Kunstler on TV before , but when it's just voice he sounds young . They both sounded young .
I pay monthly and yet I keep seeing the upgrade notice.
Dynamic Duo, will listen to this when the hurricane starts and I start in drinking.
Thanks for the info!
In a sense of duty to one of my favorite observers of the zeitgeist (JHK) I would like to comment on the JFK Assassination since I do have a rare perspective on the event.
Along with Oliver Stone and other with dogs in the fight, I was a featured speaker at both of the major 50th Anniv Conferences on the Assassination. This, owing to my relationship with KGB while living in Moscow and working on many State media projects. I made an agreement with KGB to develop their historical "IP".
(This experience alone would justify an HBO Movie - methinks.)
My most engulfing project turned out to be "Passport to Assassination", the book which resulted from my collaboration with KGB Colonel Oleg Maximovich Nechiporenko, who was one of the KGB officers at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City in 1963 who was involved with the Oswald "encounters" and had some skill in writing.
I was read-in to the surveillance archives KGB kept on LHO in both Moscow and more deeply ... Minsk. Over a period of 2 years, I absorbed the contents of the Archives and a lot more time developing relationships with some of the most fascinating - and formidable men in the World.
One of them was Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny - in power during the entire Oswald defection period. He had been Chairman of KGB and had a long leadership tenure at Lubyanka during a tumultous period of Soviet history. Another client of mine was General Nikolai Sergeevich Leonov, a close friend of both Castro brothers - who, as a senior officer of KGB at the Mexico Rezidentura, also met with Oswald. Little has been discussed about that encounter. Leonov rose to be #2 at KGB's foreign intelligence Directorate and oversaw the most impressive penetrations of US Intelligence in history. I become quite close to the enigmatic Valery Vladimirovich Kostikov, who, Oswald's dyslexic mind misremembered as "Comrade Kostin". Valery's dominance in the Warrren Report was rooted in the fact that he was, indeed, a lead operative in KGB Dept. 13, responsible for sabotage, chaos creation and ... yes ... "Wet Affairs." My many dinners with him enabled me to vicariously understand the life of a KGB master of one of the most kinetic areas of Intelligence operations. Evenings at his home, lubricated by many, many shots of proper Russian Stoly, while "eyes-to-eyes" privileged me to stories which haunt me to this day. I must finally write about at least some of what he said. His death has lifted the implicit embargo.
Between 1991 and 1994, my entire Worldview transformed. Most notably, my view of the Assassination changed. I had come to the Soviet Union as a card-carrying member of the "Oliver Stone JFK Conspiracy Caucus". By the time I finished my PhD on Oswald-ology at the Andropov Institute ... I understood clearly that Oswald did it and did it alone.
Why do I make such a bold assertion? Because in the act of digesting the fact-chain contained in the archive of Oswald (Moscow codename: "Likhoi") ... you inevitably arrive at the conclusion that he was bat-shit crazy.
There is now so much noise and so much endless conjecture and so much *industry* that now surrounds (or moreso smothers) the terrible Event, that any and all Theories both plausible and insane presently pollute what ultimately became, for me, a crystal lake of factual clarity.
Before I spring from this mortal coil I hope to commit to "letters" what brought me to my inescapable conclusion - with all its attendant absurdity.
But, lest I leave completely unsated the kind readers who have come this far on this missive, let me simply exclaim that ... a 6.5×52mm Mannlicher-Schönauer round from a Carcano rifle is a most effective Equalizer of Men.
@bdlitman
Thank you Jim, you've personally kept me sane for the 15 or 16 years from way back in the Duncan Crary days. I've been meaning to support you and sent you 250 bucks. Thank you for improving my apprehension and elocution regarding the world around me. Cheers, from a large animal veterinarian in Washington state.
"Donald Jeffries is the author of many books investigating the strange anomalies of recent American history"
Yeah, just checked out his substack on loneliness.
Thanks, but no thanks. Blowhard wears his misogyny on his sleeve.
"Mostly, lonely women are either incredibly eccentric or mentally ill. And not attractive enough to compensate for that."
Wow. Simply wow. 🙄
There’s a lot of bitterness towards women from men nowadays I notice. But there’s been even more bitterness towards men for a much longer time and it can’t but help cause a reaction; which in turn causes an overreaction and good relationships are harder and harder to maintain 😔
Don Jeffries has a great Substack! One of my favorite writers.