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Claims (38)
Irving Brown member_of
AFL-CIO documented
“of the European continent. So he wanted to visit Denmark. He was a representative of the American Federation of Labor, at the time AFL. And if you guys recall, initially AFL was separate from CIO. Now, of course, we know them as AFL-CIO, bu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 3:00
Free Trade Union Committee founded
AFL-CIO documented
“The AFL formed an organization called Free Trade Union Committee, FTUC, F-T-U-C. The purpose of the committee was to gather information on and assist the formation of, quote-unquote, free trade unions, and to, quote, fight against totalitar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 12:31
Kathy Feingold headed
AFL-CIO host_asserted
“Yeah. Director of the AFL-CIO's International Department. Now, why does the AFL-CIO have an international department? Because the International Department is the arm that went into every country to break up legitimate unions, unionizing aga…”
▶ The Shadow State 42- Secret Societies 25 - WAR PIGS 2025-06-06 @ 41:30
Free Trade Union Committee front_for
AFL-CIO book_quoted
“I'm going to mic drop that for just a second. Let that just simmer for just a second. The AFL and FTUC was associated with creating stay-behind networks in Western Europe. The research indicates that FTUC was an integral part of the structu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 14:56
International Brotherhood of Teamsters member_of
AFL-CIO host_asserted
“Our friendly middleman kind of left the AFL-CIO in January of 1968 at the exact same time as the UAW did. And the UAW was trying to link up and support the United Farm Workers, Cesar Chavez. So what you had there was a situation that, you k…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 1:22:34
Gleason Gang trafficked
AFL-CIO host_asserted
“was a big one out of New York that spread to the Midwest. They specialized in engraving plates for fake notes, and they were known for really high-quality forgeries that fooled even professionals. And they had a wide distribution network ac…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 26:46
Rag Gang trafficked
AFL-CIO host_asserted
“They'd have all these low-level people working in tavern shops and markets far from where the notes were printed, and that's how you got them into circulation. These are small-time crooks, but they moved vast amounts of money. This is Ameri…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 27:17
AFL-CIO complicity_in
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“I found those coming across the AFL and at a later point, the AFL-CIO complicity in Operation Gladio was kind of a watershed moment for me. My dad, one of the biggest, I mean, you guys know I'm a daddy's girl. I love my dad to death. But on…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 1:25:16
American Institute for Free Labor Development funded
AFL-CIO documented
“which is kind of the precursor to the labor element of National Endowment for Democracy. No one's allowed to organize labor movements against U.S. corporations outside of America. The Labor Development Office was a creature of the early 60s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 31:13
AFL-CIO founded
American Institute for Free Labor Development documented
“are a threat to them. And that's been shown to us over and over and over again. SR71? Thank you, Colonel. To all along's point, what I'll add is the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AIFLD, that was founded by the AFL-CIO i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 1:09:40
George Meany member_of
AFL-CIO caller_asserted
“covering up you know definitely that but also a lot of incredibly important stuff that is going on inside the democratic party in those years and what i mean by oh um yeah what i mean by that is that um sort of their conflict within the afl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 1:26:56
Walter Reuther member_of
AFL-CIO caller_asserted
“covering up you know definitely that but also a lot of incredibly important stuff that is going on inside the democratic party in those years and what i mean by oh um yeah what i mean by that is that um sort of their conflict within the afl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 1:26:56
Irving Brown member_of
AFL-CIO book_quoted
“intellectuals, and journalists who were engaged in a cultural Cold War. He belonged to a group of international journalists and correspondents who informed Irving Brown, director of the union that we've been talking about, the European Offi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 9:17
Saul Saltas member_of
AFL-CIO book_quoted
“was murdered on 5 December 1952, and this left Saltas as the main informant in many of these locations. The informant's reports were for AFL eyes only, but most of them had been published and their opinions appeared in the New Leader or Eur…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 10:48
AFL-CIO funded
Habib Bourguiba book_quoted
“before supporting France. Quote, we are faced with a mortal enemy who feeds on unrest, especially where such unrest is based on poverty and cultural backwardsness. Unquote. In March of 54, Bourguiba was released. AFL funding enabled him to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 25:17
Walter Reuther founded
AFL-CIO host_asserted
“A lot of that stuff is Fabianist. So how do you get Marxist and Fabian? Well, that's because all of the isms pretty much rhyme. It's all about power. So his belief was in a Swedish style social democracy. It's what he wanted for America. He…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508 @ 1:05:41
George Meany founded
AFL-CIO host_asserted
“A lot of that stuff is Fabianist. So how do you get Marxist and Fabian? Well, that's because all of the isms pretty much rhyme. It's all about power. So his belief was in a Swedish style social democracy. It's what he wanted for America. He…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508 @ 1:05:41
AFL-CIO front_for
CIA host_asserted
“Labor unions, particularly AFL-CIO, had set up an international institute in Washington, D.C. And out of that institute, they used union members' money, but primarily money from the National Endowment for Democracy, which was set up as a CI…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 12:57
AFL-CIO funded
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“I'm going to mic drop that for just a second. Let that just simmer for just a second. The AFL and FTUC was associated with creating stay-behind networks in Western Europe. The research indicates that FTUC was an integral part of the structu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 14:56
AFL-CIO co-opted
Solidarity Center host_asserted
“Solidarity was a labor movement and it was co-opted by the AFL. And this guy is right in the middle of it. So it's crazy how we get led to these exposure things and they all just keep piling on top of each other like a well-oiled puzzle bei…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 16:58
George Meany member_of
AFL-CIO host_asserted
“They were paying attention to the dispute he had been having with George Meany of CIA, AFL-CIO, who's deeply allied, as you know, with CIA, including a field offices in Latin America and deep alliance with the Marshall Plan with CIA in Euro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 1:07:49
National Endowment for Democracy member_of
AFL-CIO host_asserted
“the National Endowment for Democracy's union buddies, AFL-CIO. They produced a propaganda piece called The Price of Peace and Freedom, which totally was a propaganda piece of shit and basically lied about the entire Soviet capability in ord…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 39:34
Helmi Sabour member_of
AFL-CIO book_quoted
“on non-West parts of the world. Both the AFL and the ICFTU, that international version of it, aimed at challenging communism and beating it at its own game, said Brown. The journalist network included Helmi Sabour, S-A-B-B-O-U-R, in the Nea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 9:44
CIA member_of
AFL-CIO caller_asserted
“of concern to the working class. And yet it's between 1963 and 1968 that the CIO, which was the lowest paid part of the AFL-CIO, which was a Cold War shotgun marriage, you know, by the CIA, but the CIA was punked by that marriage. You know …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 58:10
AFL-CIO funded
Venezuela host_asserted
“And they would use that money to go to Venezuela, Chile, Nicaragua, Guatemala, everywhere throughout Latin America. Now, we have found them over in Angola and some African countries as well. But their primary focus initially was in Latin Am…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 13:26
Leon Dennen member_of
AFL-CIO book_quoted
“on non-West parts of the world. Both the AFL and the ICFTU, that international version of it, aimed at challenging communism and beating it at its own game, said Brown. The journalist network included Helmi Sabour, S-A-B-B-O-U-R, in the Nea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 9:44
AFL-CIO member_of
CIA host_asserted
“you know, against the will, against the will of the union quote-unquote leaders who were completely linked up with the pro-continuing-to-Vietnam War DNC and who, as we know, George Meany's AFL-CIO that some people call AFL-CIA because it's …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 1:21:04
Robert Alexander member_of
AFL-CIO book_quoted
“intellectuals, and journalists who were engaged in a cultural Cold War. He belonged to a group of international journalists and correspondents who informed Irving Brown, director of the union that we've been talking about, the European Offi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 9:17
Serafino Romaldi member_of
AFL-CIO book_quoted
“intellectuals, and journalists who were engaged in a cultural Cold War. He belonged to a group of international journalists and correspondents who informed Irving Brown, director of the union that we've been talking about, the European Offi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 9:17
AFL-CIO funded
Guatemala host_asserted
“And they would use that money to go to Venezuela, Chile, Nicaragua, Guatemala, everywhere throughout Latin America. Now, we have found them over in Angola and some African countries as well. But their primary focus initially was in Latin Am…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 13:26
AFL-CIO funded
Chile host_asserted
“And they would use that money to go to Venezuela, Chile, Nicaragua, Guatemala, everywhere throughout Latin America. Now, we have found them over in Angola and some African countries as well. But their primary focus initially was in Latin Am…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 13:26
AFL-CIO funded
Nicaragua host_asserted
“And they would use that money to go to Venezuela, Chile, Nicaragua, Guatemala, everywhere throughout Latin America. Now, we have found them over in Angola and some African countries as well. But their primary focus initially was in Latin Am…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 13:26
Walter Reuther member_of
AFL-CIO host_asserted
“And they were no longer right in front of their noses. They could see that the Democrats were lying to them. So unions actually began to function as unions were. And then RFK, I'm sorry, Walter Reuther, who's joining again with MLK, who was…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 1:32:34
AFL-CIO trained
Brazilian coup host_asserted
“took me to the Brazilian coup with Jim Jones, who was part of the Brazil coups, which we found out when we did our research on Jim Jones. And so the Brazilian coup was kicked off by Union foot soldiers trained at a Union school in Washingto…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner-Book Review-Prelude to Terror Chap 22 @ 1:00:09
AFL-CIO trained
Guyanese coup host_asserted
“of the article that I was reading mentioned Brazil and then goes on to mention that Jim Jones, because of course that would have been a sensational piece to the whole news story that Jim Jones was in Brazil at the same time later of Guyana …”
▶ Colonel’s Corner-Book Review-Prelude to Terror Chap 22 @ 1:00:39
AFL-CIO funded
Angola host_asserted
“And they would use that money to go to Venezuela, Chile, Nicaragua, Guatemala, everywhere throughout Latin America. Now, we have found them over in Angola and some African countries as well. But their primary focus initially was in Latin Am…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 13:26
Joseph Kennedy Sr. member_of
AFL-CIO caller_asserted
“since the early 1940s. That's great. Thanks, Colonel. Sure. Jeff, go ahead. Good morning, Colonel Towner. How are you doing this morning? Good. I wanted to elaborate on what you were speaking on from yesterday's podcast that John F. Kennedy…”
▶ Operation Gladio -France Part 2 @ 1:44:10
National Endowment for Democracy funded
AFL-CIO guest_asserted
“the domestic organizations. Like no one that I know of has even brought up the fact with all of these unions involved, the Teachers Union, AFL-CIO, all of them. No one talks about the National Endowment for Democracy's union slush fund that…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:40:08
Mentions (79)
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terrorist situation or or training situation or well that's incredible yeah that's just like today when i did that thread earlier about the union's um involvement in paramilitary um coups all that stuff in being the foot soldiers in latin a…
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took me to the Brazilian coup with Jim Jones, who was part of the Brazil coups, which we found out when we did our research on Jim Jones. And so the Brazilian coup was kicked off by Union foot soldiers trained at a Union school in Washingto…
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of the article that I was reading mentioned Brazil and then goes on to mention that Jim Jones, because of course that would have been a sensational piece to the whole news story that Jim Jones was in Brazil at the same time later of Guyana …
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in terms of large national unions. And he pulls out of the CIA completely dominated and complicit AFL-CIO because George Meany was based, he had made AFL-CIO into basically a branch office of CIA from Vietnam to Western Europe to especially…
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with those three leaders. And, you know, this is kind of matches the, the CIOs like muscling up and challenging, uh, George Meany's CIA dominance of AFL-CIO. And, um, that was that labor aspect and the extent to which like social history is…
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in the RFK assassination that he has assassinated. And then UAW president Walter Reuther dies in his second plane crash after pulling UAW out of AFL-CIO, which was licking the CIA and wanted to continue the Vietnam War. And our McLeftists a…
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The CIA involvement with organized crime had begun in the late 1940s. The agency was desperate to make certain that communist organizers did not take control of European ports. With the cooperation of various labor organizations, including …
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story about Cord Meyer because his wife ends up getting killed and she allegedly had an affair with JFK, blah, blah, blah. Wilson's cover job was arranged by the American Federation of Labor because labor in the United States leadership is …
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execution arm of the CIA. They are 100% controlled by the international syndicate. Wilson and Tom Klein first met in Virginia suburbs in 1960 when Klein's was moonlighting as a real estate salesman and Wilson wanted to sell his house before…
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that his AFL-CIO boss, Paul Hall, would become angry if he discovered that his political assistant was, in fact, a CIA agent. Yeah, I doubt that since they're in bed with him anyway, but let's go ahead with the pretense. So Wilson decided t…
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which is why Trump can eliminate it with an executive order because it was never passed by law. Although Congress did appropriate funds for it, it was never legally approved by Congress, and therefore it can be removed with an executive ord…
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which is who runs the program that I just talked about in the National Endowment for Democracy, that union slush fund, is AFL-CIO. So the USAID is attached also to the AFL-CIO. It also talks about how USAID are mostly trying to promote the …
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Okay, so let's see, where was I? By having the CIA and USAID and the AFL-CIO working closely together to collaborate with the police and with squads to arrest and kill union activists, they could prevent any union organization from happenin…
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since the early 1940s. That's great. Thanks, Colonel. Sure. Jeff, go ahead. Good morning, Colonel Towner. How are you doing this morning? Good. I wanted to elaborate on what you were speaking on from yesterday's podcast that John F. Kennedy…
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A lot of that stuff is Fabianist. So how do you get Marxist and Fabian? Well, that's because all of the isms pretty much rhyme. It's all about power. So his belief was in a Swedish style social democracy. It's what he wanted for America. He…
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The Federalists got driven out of power, but that's when Talmadge actually gets elected when the rest of his party disappears. A couple other side notes. He defended a guy by the name of Uriah Tracy against accusations by John Quincy Adams …
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That's the Reader's Digest version. But it's very, very important. Yeah. Yeah, it is. So there's a few trends there that I thought were important. Fun historical stuff, but it really kind of sets the trend for what we're talking about with …
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They were trying to do that even back then. There's a fun one. A guy by the name of Samuel Curtis Upham, who called himself Honest Sam, is a Philadelphia merchant, started counterfeiting Confederate notes in 1862, issued millions of dollars…
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I'll get into this a little bit more, but one of the main reasons the North won the Civil War was for economic reasons. We're going to get into this more, but Upham was a big part of that. There's estimates that by the end of the war, this …
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And they're doing this in the 1850s. And they were producing things like fake $500 Union banknotes. So we get to the Civil War and why this matters. The Union is desperate for cash. And the Lincoln administration turns to the counterfeiters…
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So they basically printed and counterfeited their way into it. These fake notes were returned in the union banks and funneled into the union banks and the war efforts. And it worked. So counterfeiting can be both good and bad. In this case,…
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The theory is that the Union borrowed all this money from the European banks, the Rothschild banks, to finance the war. Because of that, they were bankrupt. The Vatican Bank, which didn't exist in 1871, didn't exist until the 1940s. London,…
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The European banks had every incentive for the North and South to split so they could probably exploit the colonies again. They didn't want a strong America, so they wanted to charge Lincoln 30 to 35 percent interest. No way was Lincoln goi…
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Britain specifically, but France as well, because France had an interest because a lot of people don't know this part either. The slave trade from French colonies in Africa specializing in the production of rice. I just found this out like …
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from French colonies and the marketing of that rice into Europe. And so they had every incentive not to help the North and a lot of incentives to help the South. Yeah. And that's one of the problems with the protective tariffs. The North wa…
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Also a punitive export tariff. So it made the cost of Southern goods go up. That's why the South resisted the tariff of abominations for 30 years. Remember the South used nullification when the, every time the North would try to impose thes…
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at least not allowed in the sense of an actual trade union. The only unions that were allowed were ones that the AFL-CIO went into these countries and set up themselves because they are all controlled by the international syndicate. No coun…
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So the fact that this guy was part of it as well is very telling. He was also the executive director of an entity called Social Democrats USA. And it it has the hand fisted with like a flame coming out of it like it's carrying a torch. Defi…
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Lucky Luciano, which bridged the Italian mafia gap. There was a question, well, did the CIA was involved with killing JFK? And the other question was also brought up in New Orleans with Carlos Marcellos, Jack Ruby, and MKUltra dealing with …
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And that he was a part of the CIA's operation inside of Solidarity in Poland. Now, what's interesting, and again, God does this, right? So God showed me the AFL-CIO's role in all of this. So we just exposed all of the union shenanigans. And…
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Solidarity was a labor movement and it was co-opted by the AFL. And this guy is right in the middle of it. So it's crazy how we get led to these exposure things and they all just keep piling on top of each other like a well-oiled puzzle bei…
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which is kind of the precursor to the labor element of National Endowment for Democracy. No one's allowed to organize labor movements against U.S. corporations outside of America. The Labor Development Office was a creature of the early 60s…
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They were paying attention to the dispute he had been having with George Meany of CIA, AFL-CIO, who's deeply allied, as you know, with CIA, including a field offices in Latin America and deep alliance with the Marshall Plan with CIA in Euro…
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are a threat to them. And that's been shown to us over and over and over again. SR71? Thank you, Colonel. To all along's point, what I'll add is the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AIFLD, that was founded by the AFL-CIO i…
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Walter Reuther, the lower paid aspects of the AFL-CIO. And the CIO was very weak. And what we see in the period of the assassinations, 63 to 1970, is you had some candidates who were kind of making that CIO part of the AFL-CIO partnership, …
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I found those coming across the AFL and at a later point, the AFL-CIO complicity in Operation Gladio was kind of a watershed moment for me. My dad, one of the biggest, I mean, you guys know I'm a daddy's girl. I love my dad to death. But on…
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and the British secret intelligence to get the ball rolling. The agency had longstanding ties to AFL, American Federation of Labor. They had played a central role in the 1949 creation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions …
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trade union council to follow the quote-unquote anti-communist movement. They needed more. There was a London-based affiliate, a secretariat for unions of government workers called Public Service International, PSI. From 1958, the CIA had a…
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80 days, and this one was paid for by the CIA as well. Prime Minister Jagen calculated that the Trade Union Council would exhaust its strike funds in a month, after which the government would have its way. But Richard Ishmael met secretly w…
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Historian Robert Waters and Gordon Daniels uncovered cables from McCabe and others reporting in great detail how our unions paid the salaries of labor interns during the strike. The AFL-CIA alone spent $800,000. American documents verified …
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Let's get our speakers up. Warhamster, did you want to add anything? Yeah, a couple of things. Actually, it was really fun listening to. It tied a lot of other stories together. I was surprised I did not hear the name of William Dougherty J…
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The imposition of martial law in December of 81 and the subsequent crackdown on the labor movement Solidarity, which was in bed with the AFL-CIO, the Catholic Church also retained great influence in Catholic Poland. Its efforts enhanced by …
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the National Endowment for Democracy's union buddies, AFL-CIO. They produced a propaganda piece called The Price of Peace and Freedom, which totally was a propaganda piece of shit and basically lied about the entire Soviet capability in ord…
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covering up you know definitely that but also a lot of incredibly important stuff that is going on inside the democratic party in those years and what i mean by oh um yeah what i mean by that is that um sort of their conflict within the afl…
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the domestic organizations. Like no one that I know of has even brought up the fact with all of these unions involved, the Teachers Union, AFL-CIO, all of them. No one talks about the National Endowment for Democracy's union slush fund that…
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of concern to the working class. And yet it's between 1963 and 1968 that the CIO, which was the lowest paid part of the AFL-CIO, which was a Cold War shotgun marriage, you know, by the CIA, but the CIA was punked by that marriage. You know …
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villas and allow the government to police the plantation that's like what how they view the entire world all along yeah colonel what you just said reminds me so much of again i hate to come back to it again no i don't the struggle between w…
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you know, against the will, against the will of the union quote-unquote leaders who were completely linked up with the pro-continuing-to-Vietnam War DNC and who, as we know, George Meany's AFL-CIO that some people call AFL-CIA because it's …
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It's, you know, the unions are so paradoxical in that way. And it's like, also, you know, something I'm digging into a little bit now is like, not only in 1968 was, you know, the UAW broke breaking with the CIA Democrats to back RK with the…
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Oh, and we can't forget this. Howard Rusk, New York University, Bellevue Medical Center. We have to have a medical person. Boris Shilskin, who was the assistant to the president of the AFL-CIO or subset of the CIA. And Thomas Watson Jr. of …
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to the greatest extent, the rank and file opposing their bought-off union leadership, as in AFL-CIO's George Meany. And literally, you know, they forced somebody to become their mouthpiece of the actual rank and file that was coming back in…
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of the European continent. So he wanted to visit Denmark. He was a representative of the American Federation of Labor, at the time AFL. And if you guys recall, initially AFL was separate from CIO. Now, of course, we know them as AFL-CIO, bu…
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The first post-World War contact between the Danish and American trade union movements was his visit. So, the American trade union movement consisted of two big national organizations, the AFL and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, t…
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to any future affiliations with the Nordic trade union movement. And therefore, for the purpose of this essay, the author sticks strictly with the AFL. Hold on. Excuse me. The AFL was the organization that was the most anti-communist. And t…
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had disassociated itself from the Roosevelt administration's wartime alliance with the Soviet Union. The AFL considered the Soviet Union a threat even during the war when it was our ally. The AFL, and again, this is kind of self-preservatio…
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If you have a communist movement, there's no room for union because they don't give a shit what the workers think. So obviously, the AFL is in a self-preservation mode. They don't want the communist-style government because they all lose th…
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The AFL formed an organization called Free Trade Union Committee, FTUC, F-T-U-C. The purpose of the committee was to gather information on and assist the formation of, quote-unquote, free trade unions, and to, quote, fight against totalitar…
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Also, they defined free labor as being independent of the state and employers, and supposedly that's what the AFL was all about. Except the AFL, like the CIO later, basically worked on behalf of the oligarchs and not labor at all, in many c…
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exists a good deal of research on the role that FTUC and its close relationship with the AFL with regards to the private organization that was formed by a group of these labor leaders that were associated with the AFL. It basically function…
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I'm going to mic drop that for just a second. Let that just simmer for just a second. The AFL and FTUC was associated with creating stay-behind networks in Western Europe. The research indicates that FTUC was an integral part of the structu…
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In an internal EFTUC document, it documented the activities that were supported by the General Assemblies of AFL that the committee was always headed by the highest officers of the AFL, that's a quote from it, and was formerly a subcommitte…
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The war was a turning point for the American trade union movement, which achieved legitimacy and recognition. The AFL used Lovestone to channel funds to parts of the European labor movement that were driven underground and contributed to th…
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and make use of front groups. After the war, Lovestone and Brown made use of their European contacts, including Danish ones, allied with leading figures in the trade union movement who had adopted an anti-communist attitude. So, I find that…
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and Europeans, and a long list of third-party countries were represented in the same trade union, international, and to Lovestone's chagrin, they had communist inside of it. So you can see already, without even reading another word of this,…
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International Trade Secretariat held a Congress in Copenhagen. The leaders, including the Danish, began expressing displeasure with the WFTU and basically started questioning whether or not they wanted to be members. Irving Brown was the Am…
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you know, which was definitely kind of on the side of the CIA internationally during the Cold War, you know, for all this of this gladio style shenanigans. I think it's like really worth noticing that the split between the AFL-CIO, right, i…
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in the New Deal during the sit-down strikes led by Walter Reuther. However, in 1947, they're kind of like frozen out because of the McCarthyism and a bunch of folks or leaders are fired. And then, you know, there's the formal merger of the …
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intellectuals, and journalists who were engaged in a cultural Cold War. He belonged to a group of international journalists and correspondents who informed Irving Brown, director of the union that we've been talking about, the European Offi…
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on non-West parts of the world. Both the AFL and the ICFTU, that international version of it, aimed at challenging communism and beating it at its own game, said Brown. The journalist network included Helmi Sabour, S-A-B-B-O-U-R, in the Nea…
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and the European Office of the Union, AFL. The embassy employees were hardly able to connect to North Africans nationalists because the U.S. administration strongly supported the French. The AFL's policy was to limit communist influence in …
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giving him a reputation as a notorious money man for the CIA around the world. Toss was able to move around relatively easy in all of these areas. So he began achieving quite a sense of power, and TNL offered him the opportunity to integrat…
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before supporting France. Quote, we are faced with a mortal enemy who feeds on unrest, especially where such unrest is based on poverty and cultural backwardsness. Unquote. In March of 54, Bourguiba was released. AFL funding enabled him to …
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didn't have much effect on the Eisenhower administration. For Toss, Humphrey's speech was further recognition of his importance in the North African affair. Later in 57, he composed a long report on the Algerian situation, and that report w…
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I want to put out a couple of talking points and then Bella is going to fill in the meat and basically the floor is going to be hers. So first of all, she mentioned the discovery that I recently made about labor unions and how they are inte…
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Labor unions, particularly AFL-CIO, had set up an international institute in Washington, D.C. And out of that institute, they used union members' money, but primarily money from the National Endowment for Democracy, which was set up as a CI…
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And Venezuela was an oil consortium that was led by Standard Oil. In Chile, it was a mining consortium that was led by Freeport Mines, both of which were U.S. corporations. And the people there were being paid like 87 cents a day. And so th…
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CIO did was they sent quote unquote union organizers down that were actually CIA agents to disrupt their forming a union and co-opt them just like they did on January 6th where they infiltrate and make the entire thing bad when the actual t…
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Yeah. Director of the AFL-CIO's International Department. Now, why does the AFL-CIO have an international department? Because the International Department is the arm that went into every country to break up legitimate unions, unionizing aga…
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would not allow any legitimate unionization against American enterprises to the point where they would kill people or pay people to kill people that were the leading union representatives, legitimate unions, against things like United Fruit…