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Guest: Gunar Olsen. Gunar recently published a response to an historian’s analysis of the Soviet Afghan invasion and the question of whether or not Zbigniew Brzezinski’s goal (under the Carter administration) in assisting the mujahedin was really about provoking the Soviet military intervention. There is also a bonus question on why there was so much push back and resistance to Trump’s last ditch effort to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and what the real reasons behind it. 

Gunar Olsen is an independent scholar, writer and journalist who covers the politics of U.S. imperialism. His articles have been published in The New Republic, The Nation, Jacobin, The Grayzone, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting and other publications. He also provides research for the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

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Reference Links:

1. “We Don’t Need a Smoking Gun”: U.S. Provocations and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Gunar Olsen

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Peace Revolution episode 087: Privacy & Surveillance / The Future of Freedom vs. The Architecture of Oppression 

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Reference Map to Episode 087

(0m-1h23m) Richard’s Introductory Montage:

1. Sample: Privacy’s Dead. What Happens Next? By Tom Scott
2. Sample 1 from the Munk Debate on State Surveillance: Greenwald/Ohanian vs Hayden/Dershowitz
3. Brzezinski’s thoughts on Mass surveillance by Patrick Wood
4. Sample 2 from the Munk Debate / Glenn Greenwald
5. Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis / FDR Saudi relationship / oil for Wahabis
6. Sample 3 from the  Munk Debate / Gen. Michael Hayden
7. MI6 agent St. John Philby handling Arab Nazis Mujahedeen, Philby’s son sells terrorist network to Allen Dulles & CIA / John Loftus w. Dave Emory
8. CIA Torture Memo 2015
9. Dan Carlin / WWI British Tapped American Messages on the Atlantic Cable / Hardcore History 54- Blueprint for Armageddon V
10. School Sucks Podcast #337 /  discussion on Saudis, Afghanistan, and Adam Curtis’ films including “Bitter Lake”
11. Bitter Lake / Opium Production Optimized by Dams, U.S. and U.K. prosper
12. Obama with British Prime Minister David Cameron on the “Special Relationship”, cyber-security, and the War on Terror (ISIS)
13. A Yank at Eton / Mickey Rooney
14. Sample 2 Obama Prime Min
15. Chomsky on Surveillance state
16. Chomsky on Civil Liberties
17. Zbig Brzezinski / Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist (Documentary by James Corbett)
18. Hayden “Whodunnit?”… let’s look at the first 2 reels…
19. Sample 2 School Sucks Podcast #337
20. Brzezinski’s thoughts on Mass surveillance by Patrick Wood
21. Zbigniew Brzezinski quote
22. Hillary Clinton / The U.S. and British Governments created Al Qaeda (lies and says it was Soviet Invasion as the “Why” we did it)
23. Corbett / Al Qaeda doesn’t exist
24. Sample 4 from the Munk Debate / Greenwald
25. BBC: Al Qaeda doesn’t Exist – The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis
26. Sample 5 from the Munk Debate / Alexis Ohanian

(1h23m-1h50m) Richard’s Introductory Monologue

(1h50m-9h30m) Bill Binney Interview + Round Table Commentary Discussion & Notes

(9h30m-11h) Fourth Amendment Debate / Munk Debate on Privacy and Surveillance

(11h-12h) Patrick Wood / Technocracy and the Trilateral Commission

(12h-14h24m) America’s Surveillance State

NOTES FOR THE BILL BINNEY INTERVIEW ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION & COMMENTARY:

1. (Video) The Future of Freedom: A Feature Interview with NSA Whistleblower William Binney:
   1. PDF of notes and references for episode 087 on Scribd
2. Link for these notes in pdf/embeddable format on Scribd
3. Edward Snowden Disclosures on U.S. and British Intelligence Community spying on citizens without probable cause
4. Project BULL RUN (NSA/ GCHQ decryption program)
5. Positive & Negative Rights
6. Why Google made the NSA by Nafeez Ahmed
7. How the CIA made Google by Nafeez Ahmed
8. Sons of Liberty (History Channel Mini-Series)
9. Between Two Ages: America and the Technetronic Era by Zbigniew Brzezinski
   1. Prof. A In his book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era (New York: Viking Press;1970), Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote: “For impressive evidence of Western participation in the early phase of Soviet economic growth, see Antony C. Sutton's Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1917–1930, which argues that 'Soviet economic development for 1917–1930 was essentially dependent on Western technological aid' (p.283), and that 'at least 95 per cent of the industrial structure received this assistance.' “(p. 348).
   2. John Taylor Gatto on Brzezinski: "Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote his famous signature book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era in 1970, a piece reeking with Fabianisms: dislike of direct popular power, relentless advocacy of the right and duty of evolutionarily advanced nations to administer less-developed parts of the world, revulsion at populist demands for "selfish self-government" (homeschooling would be a prime example), and stress on collectivism. Brzezinski said in the book:¹⁴  It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous control over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date files containing even the most personal details about health and personal behavior of every citizen, in addition to the more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control information."
10. Professor Antony C. Sutton
    1. Wall Street and Hitler
    2. Wall Street and Bolshevik Revolution
    3. Wall Street and FDR
11. Project SHAMROCK
12. Paris 1919 Peace Conference
13. Department of Justice and Operations PAPERCLIP, DUSTBIN, ASHCAN (Nazis brought to America by U.S. and British Intelligence, Kissinger)
14. Anglo-American Establishment
15. Operation GLADIO
    1. GLADIO B (Operation involving Muslim Extremists)
    2. Arab Nazis (CIA Operatives in Operation GLADIO)
16. JR Seeley (Quotation)
    1. Mentor / Hero of Cecil Rhodes
    2. Original Executor of Rhodes’ first Will, but died before Rhodes
17. Stasi, Gestapo, NKVD, KGB, etc.
18. Panopticon
19. 1917 Espionage Act / WWI
20. Col. Edward Mandell House
21. C. D. Jackson (Psychological Warfare WWII / GLADIO / Bilderberg Co-Founder / JFK)
22. Henry Luce
23. Life Magazine Empire
24. Utilitarianism
25. Prussian Education System
26. The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto (2011 Interview)
27. Peace Revolution episodes 041-045 The Ultimate History Lesson w/ Commentary
28. GCHQ Dirty Tricks, Honeypots
29. GCHQ (Government Communications HeadQuarters, U.K.)
30. Special Relationship between America and Great Britain
31. 5-EYES Joint Surveillance Programs in English Speaking Nations
32. Church Committee
33. Project THINTHREAD (Surveillance Program)
34. General Michael Hayden, ex-Director of NSA, CIA, and DNI
35. Project TRAILBLAZER
    1. MKULTRA / MKSEARCH
36. 9-11 Commission
37. Rhodes Scholar Ashton Carter, current Secretary of Defense
    1. Catastrophic Terrorism: Tackling the New Danger by Ashton Carter, John Deutch and Phillip Zelikow 1998 (CFR)
38. Civil War Intelligence
39. Revolutionary War Intelligence
40. John Cecil Masterman (MI6 Director during WWII)
41. Norman Holmes Pearson (worked under Masterman on XX Committee, recruited  James Jesus Angleton)
42. BSC British Security Coordination, Rockefeller Center
43. Double-Cross System (XX, Twenty-Committee)
44. X-2  U.S. Counter-Intelligence (American XX/ Double-Cross Chapter of British Intelligence under the Special Relationship)
45. Agent Tricycle and the “Questionnaire”
46. Project MINARET
47. The BORG (Star Trek metaphor)
48. Tax Free Foundations
    1. Norman Dodd (whistleblower)
49. Cecil John Rhodes
50. Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes
51. Internationalism
52. “The Pan-Angles: A Consideration of the Federation of the Seven English-Speaking Nations” by Sinclair Kennedy (1916)
53. Pilgrims Society (Anglo-American Alliance, 1902 upon death of Cecil Rhodes)
54. Fabian Socialism
55. Five-Eyes Supra-National Intelligence Community
56. Royal Institute of International Affairs
57. Council on Foreign Relations
58. Rhodes Round Table Group
59. The Battle of New Orleans
60. War of 1812
61. Conspicuous Consumption
62. Trilateral Commission
    1. David Rockefeller & Zbigniew Brzezinski co-Founders
63. Bilderberg Group
    1. C.D. Jackson co-Founder of Bilderberg
64. Mark Klein (whistleblower)
65. James Bamford
66. “The Shadow Factory” by James Bamford
67. Technocracy
68. Cybernetics
69. Trans-Atlantic Cable
70. Porter Goss
    1. John Negroponte
    2. William “Bucky” Bush
71. STELLAR WIND (surveillance program)
72. War Games on 9-11
73. Operation APHRODITE
    1. Joseph Kennedy Jr.
74. October 24, 2000, a mass casualty (MASCAL) emergency drill was conducted to test the Pentagon’s response to an airliner crashing into its headquarters
    1. Pentagon NRO Air Piracy Drill and Jamie Gorelick testimony
75. Operation NORTHWOODS
76. PNAC “Rebuilding America’s Defenses”
77. Saudi Arabian American Oil Company / Saudi ARAMCO
78. “The Third British Empire” by Alfred Zimmern, Rhodes Round Table Group (1926 lectures at Columbia University)
79. Alfred Zimmern, Rhodes Round Table Group
    1. Rhodes Round Table Group Source for Carroll Quigley
80. “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” by Carroll Quigley
81. “The Anglo-American Establishment” by Carroll Quigley
82. “The Inquiry” à CFR & RIIA
83. St. John Philby (MI6 agent who handled Saudi Empire, created Arab Nazis, sold them to Allen Dulles)
84. Standard Oil / Saudi Arabia
85. BBC Hijackers still alive
86. U.K. Guardian: 9-11 Hijackers still alive
87. Stewart Air Force Base
88. 1993 WTC Bombing
89. Emad Salem
90. “The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terror” by Trevor Aaronson
91. MI6 / British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)
92. Allen Dulles
93. Ian Fleming
94. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) predecessor to CIA
95. OSS, CIA, and Ian Fleming: For Special Services
96. Burden of Proof
97. June 30, 2001 Aircraft Piracy / Cheney Rumsfeld
    1. FOOTNOTE 103, 9-11 Commission Report
    2. “103. FAA regulations, Special Military Operations, Requests for Service, Order 7610.4J, paras. 7-1-1, 7-1-2 (2001); DOD memo, CJCS instruction, "Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) and Destruction of Derelict Airborne Objects," June 1, 2001.”
98. LIHOP
99. MIHOP
100. Skull and Bones & the Rhodes Scholarships
101. David Boren and George Tenant Breakfast
102. Mohammad Atta and Drug Connection to Wally Hilliard and Jeb Bush
103.  “Free Trade” as defined by British Empire
104. British East India Company
105. CIA and Opium Smuggling
106. Skull and Bones and Opium Smuggling
107. 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd Afghan Wars (Great Britain)
108. Poppy as Veterans Day logo (Great Britain)
109. Mena Arkansas / CIA Drug Trafficking
110. Iran Contra / Drugs for Arms
111. Air America / CIA Opium Smuggling
112. “Bitter Lake” documentary by Adam Curtis
     1. Western expansion in Afghanistan post WWII increase in Poppy/Opium Yield (@20m)
113. Afghanistan Poppy / Opium crops
114. Running the Gauntlet
115. Origins of the Security and Exchange Commission
116. Origins of the FBI
117. Terra-Forming
118. Lord Percy
119. Hotel Majestic Conference 1919
120. Parallel Construction (Snowden Disclosures)
121. Operation MIDNIGHT CLIMAX (MKULTRA)
122. Total Information Awareness (DARPA)
123. Admiral John Poindexter (Iran Contra /DARPA)
124. Mass Surveillance
125. Tsarnaev Uncle Ruslan / CIA
126. Sibel Edmonds / GLADIO B
127. (Video) History… Cecil Rhodes & the Anglo American Establishment w/ Brett Veinotte and Kevin Cole
128. School Sucks Project #236 (Live): Historical Research Methods, Historiography, and Historicity with Brett Veinotte and Kevin Cole
129. The Round Table Group / Cecil Rhodes
130. Investigation into Tax Exempt Foundations
     1. Norman Dodd
     2. Reece Committee
131. Social Engineering
132. Enkyklios Paideia (Learning within prescribed circle of reference)
133. Imperial Federation
134. Matthew Arnold & Prussian Education in England
135. Great Books of the Western World  (Organic Unity Project)
136. (Video) History… Connected: The Trivium Method vs. the Classical (Medieval) Trivium, a briefing by Kevin Cole
137. Isocrates
138.  “The Life and Times of Stein” by J.R. Seeley
139. German Nationalism
140. Johann Pestalozzi (crossroads of school system, Prussian education, and Bavarian Illuminati)
141. Bavarian Illuminati
142. Aeropagites
143. Trivium (Classical/Medieval)
144. Studium Generale / Medieval University system)
145. Neologisms (new words)
146. International Relations
147. Holistic Ecology
148. Jan Smuts & Holistic Ecology
149. Artificial Scarcity
150. Automatons
151. Organic Unity
152. Samuel Coleridge
     1. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
153. Dorothy Sayers
154. Great Chain of Being
155. The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers
156. Scott Buchanan (Rhodes Scholar)
157. The Moot (1938-1947) / Rhodes Round Table Sub-Group
     1. Alfred Zimmern
158. The World Council of Churches
     1. Lionel Curtis (Rhodes Round Table Group)
159. King George III of Great Britain
160. Saxe-Coburg Gotha Family Empire of Germany
161. Queen Victoria
162. Kaiser Wilhelm
163. Czar Nicholas II of Russia
164. Peace Revolution episode 083: America and the Great Game: A Strategy of Tension
165. Bertrand Russell
166. “The Principles of Social Reconstruction” by Bertrand Russell (1916)
167. “The Impact of Science on Society”  by Bertrand Russell (1952)
168. Admiral John M. Poindexter
169. General Michael Hayden
170. George H.W. Bush (aka Poppy Bush)
171. Double-Tap (tactic of random slaughter)
172. James Clapper testimony (March 12, 2013)
173. JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group)
174. Confessions of a Congressman (Vox)
175. The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto
176. Fabius Maximus
177. War of Atrition
178. Fabian Socialism
179. Internationalism
180. Intra-Specific Kleptoparasitism
181. Electoral College
182. The Auctors
183. The Mythology of Democracy by Carroll Quigley
184. Marshall McLuhan
185. Peace Revolution episode 084: Builders of Empire
186. I.A. Richards (Trivium to create general education without historical meaning)
187. Stringfellow Barr (Rhodes Scholar)
188. Scott Buchanan (Rhodes Scholar)
189. New Criticism (Separation of History and Literature)
     1. John Crowe Ransom (Rhodes Scholar)
190. Pythagorean Mystery School
191. Heinz von Foerster (Cyberneticist)
192. Squaring the Circle
     1. Karl Rove quote on Empire / "Faith, Certainty, and the Presidency of George W. Bush" New York Times Oct 17, 2004 by Ron Suskind / "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality- judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." - Karl Rove
193. TV = Digital Enkyklios Paideia
194. Weisbecker article on John O’Neill
195. Jerome Hauer
196. Bernard Kerik
197. Rudyard Kipling
198. “The White Man’s Burden” (poem) by Rudyard Kipling
     1. Kipling and Cecil Rhodes
     2. Kipling and Freemasonry
     3. Kipling and re-integrating America into British Empire
199. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
200. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
201. Peace Revolution 086: Common Sense for the 21^st Century

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See also:

Peace Revolution episode 027: DIAMONDS / The Jewel of Denial / Outgrowing Stockholm Syndrome

Peace Revolution episode 023: How to Free Your Mind / The Occulted (Hidden) Keys of Wisdom

Peace Revolution episode 046: Liberty is Life / Practical Applications of Rationality

Peace Revolution episode 047: Slavery is Death / Practical Applications of Irrationality

Peace Revolution episode 048: The Philosophy of Life / This is John Galt Speaking