Webster Tarpley
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Webster Griffin Tarpley is an author, lecturer, and critic of US foreign and domestic policy. He maintains that the events of 9/11 were engineered by the military industrial complex. He envisions a model of false flag terror operated by a rogue network of independent operatives in the privatized military intelligence sector and corporate media.
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[edit] Education
Tarpley earned a BA at Princeton University in 1966 in English and Italian, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Fulbright Scholar at University of Turin, Italy. Master of Arts in humanities from Skidmore College.
[edit] Career
In 1986 Tarpley attempted to run on the platform of Lyndon LaRouche in the New York State Democratic Party primary for the U.S. Senate, but was ruled off the ballot because of a defect in his nominating petitions.[1]. He was a frequent host of "The LaRouche Connection", which its producer, LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review News Service,[2][3] describes as "a news and information cable television program".[4]
Tarpley first gained attention for co-authoring, with Anton Chaitkin, ("history editor of Executive Intelligence Review") a 1992 book on George H.W. Bush, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, which was published by Executive Intelligence Review, run by Lyndon LaRouche.[5] He has expounded the "Versailles Thesis" laying the blame for the great wars of the 20th century on intrigues by Britain to retain her dominance.[6] He gained experience as a political operative during his years with the LaRouche movement but broke away in the mid-1990s.
In 2005, Tarpley's 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA gained a following. Tarpley speaks at length about the themes in his book during an interview in the film Oil, Smoke, Mirrors.
Starting March, 2006, Tarpley had a weekly talk radio show called "World Crisis Radio" for Republic Broadcasting Network. Following a split between Wes Perkins and John Stadtmiller in January 2007, Tarpley apparently left RBN and moved to Genesis, where he presented originally the Thursday edition of "Genesis World Report"; his slot has since moved to Saturday. The format remains as a "world intelligence roundup", quite similar to his RBN show.
Tarpley is a member of the "world anti-imperialist conference" Axis for Peace, of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and of a research Netzwerk of German 9/11 authors founded in September 2006.
In August, 2007, Webster Tarpley issued the Kennebunkport Warning, which claimed an impending "false flag attack" in America in the "coming months."[7] Controversy ensued after Jamilla El-Shafei, Cindy Sheehan, Dahlia Wasfi, and Ann Wright issued a joint-statement claiming that they did not sign this Kennebunkport Warning.[8]
Beginning in January 2008, Tarpley warned that a shift in power has taken place in the ruling class, with the Brzezinski faction and its presidential candidate Obama ascendant over the lame-duck neocons. Tarpley said that the targets of U.S. imperialism would now be Russia, China and its ally Pakistan, instead of Iraq, Iran and Syria.[9]
[edit] Bibliography
- Chi ha ucciso Aldo Moro? (Who Killed Aldo Moro?), a study commissioned by a member of the Italian government and published in Rome in 1978, which broke open the affiliation of the Red Brigades with the neofascist lodge P2.
- George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992) (co-authored with Anton Chaitkin, son of the lawyer who indicted Prescott Bush under the Trading with the Enemy Act for collaboration with Nazi Germany.) Reprinted 2004, ISBN 0-930852-92-3.
- Against Oligarchy (1996)
- Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide through the Worst Financial Crisis in Human History (1999)
- 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA (2005), Foreword by Thierry Meyssan, ISBN 0-930852-31-1, Third edition ISBN 0-930852-37-0 (June 2006). Version française: La Terreur Fabriquée, Made in USA : 11 Septembre, le mythe du XXIe siècle (Sept. 2006). In Italiano: La Fabbrica del Terrore (Sept. 2007). En Español: 11-S, El Falso Terrorismo] Jan. 2008 ISBN 0-930852-98-2.
- Obama - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate (Apr. 2008) ISBN 0-930852-88-5.
[edit] References
- ^ Rangel, Jesus. "Another Assemblyman Ruled Off Primary Ballot", New York Times, 1986-08-09. Retrieved on 2007-09-18.
- ^ ¤ Berlet, Chip. "Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right: Conspiracism in American Political Discourse at the Turn of the Second Millennium." Reconsidering "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion": 100 Years After the Forgery, October 30–31, 2005, Boston
¤ Berlet, Chip & Bellman Joe. "Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag", Political Research Associates, March 10, 1989
¤ Berlet, Chip & Lyons, Matthew. Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, Guilford, 2000. ISBN 1-57230-562-2
¤ Fraser, Clara. Revolution, She Wrote, Red Letter, 1998. ISBN 0-932323-04-9. See chapter called "LaRouche: Sex Maniac and Demagogue"
¤ Gilbert, Helen. Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium, Red Letter, 2003. ISBN 0-932323-21-9 - ^ King, Dennis. Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, New York: Doubleday, 1989. ISBN 0-385-23880-0 Online text at here
¤ Mintz, John. "Ideological Odyssey: From Old Left to Far Right", The Washington Post, January 14, 1985
¤ Wohlforth, Tim. "A '60's Socialist Takes a Hard Right", Political Research Associates, March16, 2006. - ^ LaRouche website [1] and [2]
- ^ History News Network
- ^ The Versailles Thesis - Roots of WWI
- ^ Webster G. Tarpley, THE KENNEBUNKPORT WARNING [3].
- ^ Kennebunkport Warning, Joint Statement by Jamilla El-Shafei, Cindy Sheehan, Dahlia Wasfi, and Ann Wright [4]
- ^ http://www.waronfreedom.org/tarpley/obamarticls.htm
[edit] External links
- Webster's Website
- Tarpley's Show on the Genesis Network
- Ground Zero Grassy Knoll - Feature article in New York Magazine (March 20, 2006)
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