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The Deep Research Behind The Valediction
The authors researched, wrote and published articles at different stages of their understanding. They not only form the basis of their discoveries, but have become more relevant over time. Each of these articles play a part that is revealed in The Valediction, Three Nights of Desmond. Read the articles here.
Related Articles, Interviews & Presentations
By the 1970s, women made up over 60 percent of the 10,000 students at Kabul University.
HOW WE DISCOVERED THE DEEP TRUTH BEHIND JFK’S ASSASSINATION THROUGH THE MAGIC OF LOVE FIELD AIRPORT (click title to download PDF file) By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould September 19, 2024
Resurrecting JFK’s Spirit of Peace through the Magic of Love Field
by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
September 3, 2024
“Some like it Hot, Some like it too Hot!”
by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
February 24, 2024
“JFK Assassination – 60 years on Nov. 22, 2023” (read the article online at Invisible History or download the .pdf version here). We will present our Fitzgerald family research at the Dallas Convention this November. Conference and ZOOM link info can be accessed HERE.
November 15, 2023
THE UN 2024 EQUINOX EARTH DAY EVENT; a tribute to Earth Rights Economics of Justice and Peace
by Paul Fitzgerald Elizabeth Gould
September 4, 2023
From the Jerusalem Crusade to the Holy Grail to the death of JFK by Paul Fitzgerald & Elizabeth Gould (pdf download)
February 18, 2023
Resistance to British Colonial Brutality: Bhadshah Khan’s Afghan Peace Movement – Global Research
by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
October 11, 2022
The Hegelian Dialectic is a Mental Trap That Only Leads to Self-annihilation by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
May 6, 2022
Imagine a future based on JFK’s Dream of World Peace by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
March 21, 2022
Fr. Seán ÓLaoire’s 35-minute Homily, “The Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Religion” presents profound ideas that expanded on our thesis on how to bring mysticism back into our daily lives. Although he is an Irish Catholic priest, it is the voice of his Celtic Druid roots that delivers these illuminating revelations.
The Dark Answers to Imperialism, JFK and Afghanistan are hidden in the Mystical–Two Authors’ Journey of Discovery by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
January 13, 2022
How America’s Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up by Carl Bernstein – After leaving the Washington Post in 1977, Bernstein spent six months looking at the relationship of the CIA and the press during the Cold War years. His 25,000-word cover story, originally published in Rolling Stone on October 20, 1977, is reprinted on The Greanville Post at the link above.
A New Memoir Reveals How Brzezinski’s Chessboard Led to U.S. Checkmate in Afghanistan by Max Parry – posted on The Greanville Post. Also posted on Global Research and Dissident Voice.
November 8, 2021
1979 Assassination of U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs Set Groundwork for America’s Longest War by Jeremy Kuzmarov, CovertAction Magazine
October 29, 2021
The Power of Story to Change Hearts and Minds Where Facts & Logic Cannot
by Natylie Baldwin
Vice President Harris and Dr. Biden: Your Silence on Afghan Women Is Deafening by Sohaila Wali
September 26, 2021
Lessons of Afghanistan – Part 1
Featuring Erik Edstrom, Valentine Moghadam, Fahima Gaheez
August 30, 2021
“Afghanistan: The Great Deception”
by Dr. Jawied Nawabi
August 28, 2021
“The Great Game of Smashing Countries” by John Pilger
August 25, 2021
“Afghanistan: the Miserable Performance Of The Mainstream Media” by Melvin Goodman
August 23, 2021
Hollywood’s Dangerous Afghan Illusion
by Robert Parry
August 16, 2021
Book One, The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond – A Novelized Memoir – After 20 years of occupation, America’s silent retreat from Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield in the middle of the night on July 5, 2021 marked the end of an era. Born out of an obsession to give the Soviet Union its own Vietnam at the start of the Carter administration in 1977, Afghanistan grew over a decade into a neoconservative cause célèbre and the CIA’s largest covert operation in history. President Reagan’s crusade against the Evil Empire set the stage for endless war by privatizing covert action and spawning an independent financial network that put the planet up for grabs to the highest bidder. And with the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. believed it had won control of the future.
In the summer of 1979 Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould entered this epic story as journalists, and for over forty years witnessed first-hand how the U.S. transformed its Afghan trap “victory” into trapping itself in a second Vietnam.
Without realizing Afghanistan’s mythic dimension as the graveyard of empires the United States must now come to grips with a whole new reality that is not just undoing the foundation of the American empire but undoing the concept of empire, itself.
On the road with Paul and Liz from the fall of Saigon to Kabul
The authors take you on an amazing journey back to 1970 where they started in the rock musical HAIR and the anti-Vietnam War movement that led to Afghanistan behind Soviet lines in 1981 and a four-decade odyssey to discover how America ended up in its second Vietnam quagmire in Afghanistan, the Graveyard of Empires. Watch their interview with Bruce de Torres (aka “the next Joe Rogan”) above!
Watch “Afghanistan Between Three Worlds”
The authors’ 1981 documentary from behind Soviet Lines covering those first moments of a conflict that still rocks the world. It stands as a witness to a great tragedy of the 20th century and to what might have been had diplomacy and common sense prevailed.
The Authors
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team, acquired the first visas to enter Afghanistan granted to an American TV crew in 1981. Following their news story for CBS, they produced a PBS documentary and returned to Kabul for ABC Nightline in 1983. Starting in 1992 through 1995 they worked on the film version of their experience under contract to Oliver Stone. In 1998 they started collaborating with Afghan human rights expert Sima Wali. In 2002 they filmed and produced a documentary about Wali’s first return to Kabul since her exile in 1978. Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story (2009 – Amazon – City Lights) and Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire (2011 – Amazon – City Lights) were published by City Lights. The Voice, an esoteric adventure story, was published in 2001.
Praise for The Valediction
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