Douglas Valentine

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Author Douglas Valentine discusses The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World.https://www.amazon.com/CIA-Organized-Crime-Illegal-Operations/dp/0997287012 www.douglasvalentine.com

Author Douglas Valentine discusses The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World.https://www.amazon.com/CIA-Organized-Crime-Illegal-Operations/dp/0997287012www.douglasvalentine.com

Douglas Valentine is an author, investigator, journalist and poet and also a perfect L.A.L.O. (Life And Life Only) guest since his work and life are a combination of seeking the truth about potentially dark areas of life while promoting self-development and a spiritual centre through his poetry. In this information-packed conversation, we mostly focus on Vietnam and the C.I.A, the latter being the subject of Doug's latest book, but there is a wider discussion about propaganda methods used and honed through the ages and up to the present day. The conversation is top-and-tailed with clips from two comedy legends with insights on how the world really works. A link to Doug's website can be found below If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share etc... FB page- https://www.facebook.com/lifeandlife75 Twitter handle- @lifeonly75 To leave feedback or discuss a life coaching consultation, please write to lifeandlifeonly@gmail.com  links Doug's main website http://www.douglasvalentine.com Carl Bernstein's famous essay on the C.I.A.'s influence on the media http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php George Carlin- 'The Owners of the Country' (extended version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG4vvFwyYWQ Bill Hicks- 'It's Just A Ride' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgzQuE1pR1w

Author, Investigator, Journalist, & Poet, Douglas Valentine joins us for episode 98 of ABR. Douglas is the author of multiple books of historical non-fiction covering World War II, the Vietnam War and America's war on drugs: The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program, The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs, and The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA.Douglas has lectured and appeared on TV and radio talk shows, testified as an expert witness, served as documentary film consultant and worked as a private investigator.Stay Connected!!!http://www.douglasvalentine.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Douglas-Valentine/e/B001H6W4UA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share https://twitter.com/dougvalentine77?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19421/lot/1237/The Airey Bros.IG @aireybros / https://www.instagram.com/aireybros/ https://www.blacksheependurance.com/podcastPremium Content : AB/DC Programming / B-Role & Mix Tapes / Accountability Coachinghttps://www.patreon.com/AireyBrosValue for Valuehttps://venmo.com/Richard-Airey https://venmo.com/Jimi-Airey https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=BHCAKFGH6TNF2Handmade in Longmont, Colorado, 42% of every Honey Bunchies Gourmet Honey Bar is pure honey with peanuts, pecans and sunflower kernels. Our bar contains simple, clean ingredients and are gluten-free, grain-free and soy-free. A perfect salty-sweet combination packed with all-natural energy that will make your tastebuds jump for joy! Use ABR1512 at check out for 10% off your next order https://honeybunchies.com/Do you enjoy a well made pour over but don't have the time for set up, brew time and clean up? Check out Mount Hagen Coffee. Organic, Fair Trade, instant, freeze dried.https://www.mounthagen.de/enHave you tried Keto Soups from Kettle and Fire they are delicious and they are essential for any ultra marathon crew. Don't get stuck using powdered broths and top ramen at your next ultra, use Kettle and Fire, you won't regret it. Order now and save up 30% on your orderhttps://offers.kettleandfire.com/bfcm-2019/?afmc=runningwodPeople always ask us about supplements my answers vary from time to time with what using at any given moment but one constant since 2013 has been Cordyceps Mushrooms from Onnit. Shroom TECH Sport helps you turn up your training volume. Whether you’re a recreational exerciser or a dedicated athlete, this means MORE: reps, circuits, miles, laps, more of the hard work you love to hate. Best of all, Shroom TECH Sport delivers improved performance all without the use of stimulants like caffeine. It's designed to be used before exercise or for a daily energy boost.http://onnit.sjv.io/c/478343/349600/5155

Douglas Valentine (http://www.douglasvalentine.com) is an American researcher, writer, and poet. He has spent 30+ years researching the CIA, its infamous Phoenix Program, and the manner in which it operates. In this episode, Douglas explains the role of the CIA from the Vietnam war through to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the structure of the Phoenix program, the difference between the CIA and traditional military intelligence, the intersection of interests between the CIA and large corporations as well as how the CIA seeks to benefit from the illegal narcotics trade. Here is the amazon link for a list of Douglas’ books: https://www.amazon.ca/Douglas-Valentine/e/B001H6W4UA/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vikasp/message

Douglas Valentine is an author, journalist & historian. Douglas has lectured and appeared on TV and radio talk shows, testified as an expert witness, served as documentary film consultant and worked as a private investigator. His previous books include The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World, The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam, and The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA. He is also the editor of the poetry anthology With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century.

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On this edition of Parallax Views, Douglas Valentine, author of the groundbreaking book The Phoenix Program, joins us in light of the republication of his book TDY to discuss covert operations, the CIA, the Vietnam War, and more. In this conversation, however, we take a more philosophical turn as Douglas and I attempt to answer the question "How did we get here" in regards to living in an age where secrecy, surveillance, terror, and fear seem to reign supreme in our society. In doing so Douglas and I consult the work of the French theorist Guy Debord of the Situationist International and author of The Society of the Spectacle. In this regard, Douglas makes special reference to Debord's observation that, ""Secrecy dominates this world, and foremost as the secret of domination." All that and more on this edition of Parallax Views! SUPPORT PARALLAX VIEWSON PATREON! FORBONUS CONTENTANDARCHIVED EPISODES! ANDCHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR: FAILED STATE UPDATEANEW PODCASTFROMJOURNALIST JOSEPH FLATLEY

Author of three books on CIA operations, Valentine’s research into CIA activities began when CIA Director William Colby gave him free access to interview CIA officials who had been involved in various aspects of the Phoenix program in South Vietnam. It was a permission Colby was to regret. The CIA would rescind it, making every effort to impede publication of The Phoenix Program, which documented the CIA’s elaborate system of population surveillance, control, entrapment, imprisonment, torture and assassination in Vietnam.While researching Phoenix, Valentine learned that the CIA allowed opium and heroin to flow from its secret bases in Laos, to generals and politicians on its payroll in South Vietnam. His investigations into this illegal activity focused on the CIA’s relationship with the federal drugs agencies mandated by Congress to stop illegal drugs from entering the United States. Based on interviews with senior officials, Valentine wrote two subsequent books, The Strength of the Wolf and The Strength of the Pack, showing how the CIA infiltrated federal drug law enforcement agencies and commandeered their executive management, intelligence and foreign operations staffs in order to ensure that the flow of drugs continues unimpeded to traffickers and foreign officials in its employ.Ultimately, portions of his research materials would be archived at the National Security Archive, Texas Tech University’s Vietnam Center, and John Jay College.This book includes excerpts from the above titles along with subsequent articles and transcripts of interviews on a range of current topics, with a view to shedding light on the systemic dimensions of the CIA’s ongoing illegal and extra-legal activities. These terrorism and drug law enforcement articles and interviews illustrate how the CIA’s activities impact social and political movements abroad and in the United States.A common theme is the CIA’s ability to deceive and propagandize the American public through its impenetrable government-sanctioned shield of official secrecy and plausible deniability.Though investigated by the Church Committee in 1975, CIA praxis then continues to inform CIA praxis now. Valentine tracks its steady infiltration into practices targeting the last population to be subjected to the exigencies of the American empire: the American people.