Journalists Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould in their stunning book Valediction: Resurrection once again draw on the mystical power of dreams to report the truth. They do so not only because Truth is the journalist’s creed but because they know from personal experience and ancestral apparitions truth is fundamental to creating peace in the world. Dreams and synchronicities guided their unique reporting on the politics of Afghanistan and the evaporation of prospects for peace in the wake of the Soviet invasion in 1979. Now they urge us to evince the dream of genuine world peace Paul’s relative JFK enunciated his American University in 1963. The vision of these journalists–reclaiming our mystical powers to transform from warriors for war into warriors for peace–is a dream our very survival may depend on coming true.

—Joyce Lynn, author Dreams and the Wisdom Within, PlumDreams.com

 

“[Paul and Liz] are the real deal. … They’ve done all the footwork. … They have all the data and all the information.” “[Their book is] fascinating because it goes into the esoteric elements … the Kennedys, [the Fitzgerald family’s] roots going way back in time …” “[When I interviewed them] we talked about THE DA VINCI CODE – what if? But [THE VALEDICTION: Resurrection] isn’t a what-if. This is the real deal.” “Because they go way back in time. … We’re talking about the Knights Templar, all kinds of things … It’s an amazing story, and to everyone [hearing this], please go read their book.” 

—Daniel Estulin, award-winning investigative journalist, TV show host and author of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group

 

“Few outsiders have been engaged with Afghanistan for as long as Gould and Fitzgerald, and few have learned more about the hidden side of America’s long misadventure there.  The Valediction is a wild ride through the underside of the American war and propaganda machines.  It does not tell the story of the Afghan War that appeared in our news media, but something very different and immensely valuable: the real story.”

—Stephen Kinzer, author of Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control and The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World

 

“Outstanding! Gould and Fitzgerald meticulously document generations of catastrophic US policies towards Afghanistan and the Middle East recklessly supporting, funding and arming to the hilt the most barbaric extremist Islamist terrorist groups that killed scores of thousands decent mainstream Muslims in their wild and ferocious grasps for power. Reading this book is like being face-slapped by reality.”

—Martin Sieff, Senior Fellow, American University in Moscow, Former Senior Foreign Correspondent, Washington Times, Former Managing Editor, International Affairs, and United Press International

 

“Weaving ancient family history and contemporary world politics, Fitzgerald and Gould offer a riveting tale of intrigue that shines a light on the murky but orchestrated events precipitating the December 1979 Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. The book’s fast-paced narrative and cast of (mostly rogue) characters is complemented by sober assessments of American imperial hubris and media self-censorship. The book is bound to resonate with a wide array of readers.”

—Valentine M. Moghadam, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University

 

“Time to leave behind the old world view and discover what lies beyond the veil. Paul Fitzgerald and his beloved wife, Elizabeth Gould, have an epic story to tell, deeply personal, and yet very political, historical, and mythological, as well, spanning many empires, cultures, to the very roots of our ancestors.  There are more multifaceted truths in this novel than can be found on the evening news. However, that is a major point in Paul’s story; he was a journalist, one of the rare few, whose findings contradicted the ‘official narrative’ the narrative used to justify invasions, war, the conquest other people’s lands.  This is a heroic tale and should inspire all of us to seek our own truths and challenge those narratives which threaten all of us.”

—Carol Brouillet, organizer, activist, Founder of the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance

 

“Going back to Afghanistan right now is a long, long journey. Although I’ve never been there in person, I feel like I’ve been there through your minds.”

—Oliver Stone expressed these thoughts to the authors about their work

 

“The Valediction is a real-life thriller – a mix of mystery, mysticism, and geopolitics – that shines a bright light on the darkest and most tragic secrets about America’s role in Afghanistan and the extent to which the deep state will go to hide them. Paul rides along with – and encounters – some of the most pivotal figures in the history of the Cold War – including a few who seem ripped right from the pages of a Ludlum novel. But Valediction is much more than a harrowing adventure, for the shocking details of one truth-seeking journalist’s struggle against the most powerful interests in Washington is bound to shatter any reader’s illusions about the objectives of U.S. foreign policy.”

—Michael Hughes, journalist, foreign policy analyst, State Department Correspondent and senior editor for an international news agency

 

“It is impossible to stop reading The Valediction! The motives of those who really rule this world will forever remain inscrutable to those who remain cloistered in the left/right paradigm offered for what passes as education. The Valediction offers a chance to take a peek behind the veil. This is a very exclusive club. You must be born into it. But I must warn you, to paraphrase Jim Morrison paraphrasing William Blake, Realms of Bliss, realms of light, some are born to happiness.  Some are born to endless night…”

—Jack Heart, journalist specializing in the esoteric behind geopolitics, and author of Those Who Would Arouse Leviathan: Memoirs of an awakening god.

 

“As media pundits and government officials continue to struggle over how Afghanistan could have unraveled so quickly as the Taliban took control over the country, Fitzgerald and Gould dig deep into the period when Afghanistan was under the control of the Soviets (1979 -1989), providing crucial answers to the present situation.  In their compelling narrative, they unravel the mystery of why U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, was assassinated in 1979,  leading to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan nine months later. The most significant outcome – the ultimate defeat of the Soviets and the subsequent U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 –is a disturbing commentary on the U.S.’s long range intensions in Afghanistan, and why the Americans were doomed to fail in the ‘Graveyard of Empires’.”

—Charlotte Dennett, a former Middle East reporter, investigative journalist, and attorney is co-author of Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil and author of The Crash of Flight 3804.

 

Accolades for The Valediction by Matthew Ehret, Editor-in-Chief of The Canadian Patriot Review, Author of The Clash of the Two Americas, Director of The Rising Tide Foundation, and Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow:

In our presently beleaguered era, caught as we are at the final stages of an empire, the region of Afghanistan has become the center of world attention once more.

This is a region which is shaped by greater forces of history than most realize. On the one hand, it is a historic bridge between civilizations east and west as a node on the ancient silk road (a role it might hopefully regain today). On the other hand it has earned its title as “The Graveyard of Empires” for any imperial force wishing to dominate this center-piece of the World Island.

In The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond (Book 1), Paul and Liz have painted an earth-shaking picture of the strategic dynamics shaping not only Afghanistan, but also the dynamics shaping the takeover of the US foreign policy establishment over the dead body of JFK and the launching of the Vietnam war.

Having been in the unique position as the sole American journalists permitted into Afghanistan in 1981 and again in 1983, Paul and Liz ran directly into powerful forces shaping the levers of power and mass perception from the highest echelons of media, finance and intelligence agencies then centered around the CIA and Trilateral Commission of Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller.

In mapping out their personal experiences, Paul and Liz have reconstructed not only their own process of discovery in an autobiographical format that reads like a detective story, but have also shed light onto the complex forces operating above nation states which maneuvered to assassinate an American Ambassador in Kabul, pull the Soviet Union in an unwinnable quagmire, amplify the international drug trade and grow the monster of Islamic terrorism which plagued humanity for the next 40 years… all while maintaining a veneer of “liberal democracy” for public consumption.

How Paul and Liz were able to render these creatures of the shadows stretching to the highest echelons of the European old nobility and associated secret societies intelligible for readers of any level of awareness is admirable.

This book is a must for anyone wishing to understand not only what has so misshapen US foreign policy, artificially lit the middle east on fire or what possible solutions to this unwinnable dark age agenda that is still shaping much of our lives.

 

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