Our Connections with the American Rock Musical HAIR

  • We’re all CIA assets! What can be done, a personal story – read about the dark forces of the CIA controlling the 1960s West Coast Music Scene and its connection to HAIR’s powerful effect on the national anti-Vietnam movement explained
  • On the road with Paul and Liz from the fall of Saigon to Kabul – We take you on an amazing journey back to 1970 where we 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 the interview with Bruce de Torres (aka “the next Joe Rogan”) below:

 

Resources that provide further insight into the research behind The Valediction…

The REAL U.S.-Afghan Story

  • Neocon History Series – articles we researched and published from 2011 until the present that became the historical foundation for The Valediction books. The PDF file can be read here.
  • “The Grand Illusion of Imperial Power” – a 2018 article explaining why Zbigniew Brzezinski’s imperial hubris to lure the Soviets into Afghanistan won him only a Pyrrhic victory
  • A two-hour interview with Jay Dyer about mystical imperialism, the Great Game, black ops, the Cold War, spy games, Templarism, Roman Catholicism, BCCI, the drug trade and more
  • Our Own Private Bin Laden – A 2005 film we were interviewed for along with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Stansfield Turner, Charles Cogan and many more. The film highlights the historical background that led to the fatal link between post-Cold War politics and the emergence of new forms of terrorism that established their own economy. It shows the connection between privatization, deregulation, the free market and the globalization of terrorism.
  • Afghanistan Between Three Worlds – Our 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.

Propaganda Machine: The Main Stream Media

  • Our 10-minute clip exposing the MSM’s ‘narrative’ on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as pure propaganda
  • 1981 Columbia Journalism Review: “The New Afghanistanism” (PDF) – The article analyzed the effect Dan Rather’s April 5, 1980 60 Minute Report “Inside Afghanistan” had on American reporting. Before his broadcast, reporters were questioning the official narrative. Once it was broadcast, CJR summarized that reporters suddenly stopped asking the “hard questions.” CJR summarized that “Rather managed to consolidate popular misconceptions about the war into one high impact, coast to coast broadcast.”
  • “Journalistic Jihad: Holes in the coverage of holy war” (PDF) – An article exposing how CBS News regularly broadcast faked news of the Afghanistan war to the American people
  • May 14, 2017 – a 90 minute interview with Kevin Barrett about our article “The History of the Neocon Takeover of the USA.” What is neo-conservatism, and how did it come to power? Who is “ex-Trotskyite” James Burnham, whose real-life example inspired the dystopian vision of George Orwell’s 1984 and Zbigniew Brzezinski whose hardline Machiavellian philosophy took over the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
  • “In Thrall to Fear” – An article written in 1972 by Senator William Fulbright explains the tactics of the Neoconservatives and how they made it impossible to come to any conclusion other than their own
  • A 2009 Bill Moyers Veteran’s Day interview with Oliver Stone the soldier – Oliver asked us to brief him on the Afghan issue in preparation for the interview. We laid out why there was no military solution which Oliver agreed with. As we listened to the interview we were stunned to hear him promoting military solutions. It appeared the part of Oliver who did the interview was the “soldier” and not the “director.” View the exchange at the end of part 2 here.
  • Our 90-minute 2015 interview with Charles Cogan, former Chief of the Directorate of Operations for the Near East, South Asia Division of the CIA, 1979-1984, and a 3-minute clip from the interview of Cogan admitting that Zbigniew Brzezinski told him the “Afghan Trap Thesis” is authentic.

Sima Wali and the Graveyard of Empires

In 1998 we began collaborating with Afghan human rights expert Sima Wali. As the first Afghan refugee to come to the US in 1978, Sima transformed herself from victim to advocate. As President of Refugee Women in Development she worked to empower uprooted women around the world to assert their rights and participate in their own economic and social development until she passed away in 2017. Her NYT obituary can be read here.  It is filled with misinformation. We wrote “New York Times Strikes Out Again on Afghanistan” to address the misinformation.  We wrote “What Have They Done to Our Fair Sister?” as a tribute to Sima.

  • “Is not the Pashtun amenable to love and reason? He will go with you to hell if you can win his heart, but you cannot force him even to go to heaven” – Khan Abdul Ghaffar
    In 1929, Khan inaugurated Afghanistan’s non-violent movement, the Khudai Khidmatgar, to reform Pashtun society with a nonviolent movement aimed at resisting British rule. His recruits totally embraced an oath to renounce violence and never touch any weapons. Eventually Khan’s army exceeded 100,000 that included both women and men.
  • Between 330 and 327 BC, Alexander the Great sent a letter to his mother after three years of encounters with the Afghan Pashtuns in Arachosia (now Kandahar). He wrote, “I am involved in the land of leonine (lion-like) and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldiers. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.” [emphasis added]
  • The description of Sumer’s “late-stage imperial dementia”, from Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer, reads as though it’s about modern-day America: “Sumer came to a cruel and tragic end, and, as one melancholy bard explained:  law and order ceased to exist; cities, houses, stalls and sheepfolds were destroyed; rivers and canals flowed with bitter waters; fields and steppes grew nothing but weeds and “wailing plants.” The mother cared not for her children, nor the father for his spouse; the nursemaid chanted no lullabies at the crib. No one trod the highways and the roads, the cities were ravaged and their people were killed by the mace and died of famine. Finally over the land fell a calamity indescribable and unknown to man.”

Dream Power and the Mystical Side of Geopolitics

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” — T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”), Seven Pillars of Wisdom                                                                                                              

  • The Voice, our esoteric novel, will take you on a journey for the Holy Grail that weaves scientific mythology with geopolitical intrigue in a wild-ride Dan Brown couldn’t dream up. The online preface from The Voice contains photos that are not in the printed or eBook version. For more information, visit grailwerk.com

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