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I have been following Catherine Austin Fitts off and on for many years once I became fully convinced she was “the real deal.” Her extensive “insider” background status at the top echelon of one of Wall Street’s most prominent and politically connected investment banks, and her sub cabinet stint at HUD during the G W B Bush regime, demonstrated she was being groomed for a seat within elite power brokers. (She served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Hou...

British Empire’s sun hasn’t set on Indian officers’ clubs — centre of civil-military tussle Sanjaya Baru © Provided by The Print Writing in the 1950s, Wright Mills included the military brass in America’s power elite, along with the political and business elite, referring to them as ‘warlords’. He saw the US victory in the Second World War as being responsible for the elevated social status of military leaders and their influence on politics and government. After all, the American public had voted a war-time general to the nation’s presidency in 1953 when Gen...

Part 3 of a 3-Part Series by Cynthia Chung / April 8th, 2021 The Eisenhower presidency would see Washington taken over by business executives, Wall Street lawyers, and investment bankers—and by a closely aligned warrior caste that had emerged into public prominence during World War II. ***** As discussed in Part Two of this series, the war in Vietnam did not start on its official date, November 1st, 1955, but rather 1945 when American clandestine operations were launched in Vietnam to “prepare the ground”. Fletcher Prouty, who served as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs o...

When the Political Gets Personal Veteran Austin journalist Bill Minutaglio’s latest book is a crowd-pleasing account of heated political battles in Texas over the past 150 years. But does it get the big picture right? Illustration by Katherine Lam Texans take a singular pride in their state’s politics. Where else can one find such entertaining grandiosity, unpredictability, and sprawling variety in one place? Pretty much nowhere, as the veteran Austin journalist Bill Minutaglio knows. His tenth and latest book , A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles: A History of Politics and Race in Texas (...