Operation Gladio - Ethiopia

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0:00 Okay, everybody, welcome to Operation Gladio Story Hour. We're going to be talking about Ethiopia today. And Bridget, if you wouldn't mind, in the article that I sent you, could you cut and paste the regions of Ethiopia and kind of get a map of...

0:28 in where it sits in relationship to its neighbors and post that up on the top so people will have an idea of where we're at. Because, thank you. What I have found is very interesting about... Ma'am, the article that you sent me?

0:57 I texted it. Okay. Yeah. It's in space. Bridget, it's in spaces as well. Or the signal. Okay. Thank you. So Ethiopia is very interesting. And just so that you guys know, I don't think I've mentioned this. When I was at U.S. Central Command, there was not an AFRICOM.

1:28 And most, like the Horn of Africa, which for our purposes includes like Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya. And I don't remember if Uganda, I want to say it was, but maybe not. But that whole...

1:54 Horn of Africa was part of the CENTCOM AOR and then basically the rest of Africa. And that's area of responsibility, meaning that if crap goes down, it's CENTCOM's responsibility. And again, this was before they stood up the command, the combatant command called AFRICOM. And so European command, UCOM, had part of Africa and CENTCOM had the other part. The entire globe.

2:24 is geographically designated to a U.S. combatant commander for responsibility of military to military funding, engagement, training, whatever. And there was a very unique relationship, I'm just going to say that, with the Horn of Africa.

2:54 As a matter of fact, after 9-11, of the areas that were considered for boots on the ground besides Afghanistan, two of the three that I know was considered was in the Horn of Africa. And we were told that that had a lot to do with drug trafficking and terrorism.

3:27 Obviously, I find that totally ironic now. There was a hesitation to put an entire effort into Afghanistan only because of the past of you can't win in Afghanistan. There's just there's not that they've ever done anything to win. Don't get me wrong. But there was a reluctance among people talking after 9-11.

3:56 throughout U.S. Central Command to do too much operationally in Afghanistan. And almost immediately, they began looking for an alternative to what we were told, draw out the terrorists, kind of like a honeypot, if you will, to draw them in. So two of those locations, like I said, was in the Horn of Africa.

4:34 When I started looking into Africa, because I had been very familiar, I've met officers because we did a lot of mill to mill. As a matter of fact, Bright Star, the major annual every other year exercise that is done at U.S. Central Command was done either in Kenya or Egypt or one of the, we had a huge.

5:03 military to military engagement budget for Kenya. So I obviously heard a lot about that stuff. So when you're looking at Africa, what they consider the Horn of Africa is to the far east, the little tip that sticks out into the Indian Ocean underneath of Yemen and Saudi Arabia. That is considered.

5:32 because it looks like a rhinoceros's horn. And that is considered the Horn of Africa. And it's critically important because if you zoom in on Yemen and Djibouti, Eritrea, in that area, youth in Somalia, you see immediately the narrow passage that leads up through

6:01 the area into the Suez Canal alongside Egypt. That waterway there is crucial to world trade. And you look right off the coast of Yemen, which is right across from Djibouti, and you see Aden. Aden in Yemen was like 400, 500 years ago, one of the very first places that the

6:32 England, the British Empire, secured for that very reason. That's where, remember I told the story about them stealing the coffee trees? Yemen had the only coffee production in the entire world. The British came there and stole coffee trees and basically distributed them all over the world. And that's how we got coffee growers everywhere. They got that from Yemen.

7:00 This is a very old, very strategically important area, especially in light of all of the resources that we've talked about at Nauseam. So I want to talk to you about an article that was written by Jeremy Kuzmarov. And it starts off.

7:31 talking about a former Ethiopian diplomat by the name of Mohamed Hassan. And it goes back to the 1990s and him being involved in protests with a future Ethiopian president by the name of Melez Zenawi.

8:01 And I probably butchered that, but it's Z-E-N-A-W-I. And they both wanted more rights for the Ethiopian people. And they are predominantly a Muslim population. So Hassan told an international tribunal that was held on U.S. imperialism.

8:31 that the U.S. government is responsible for the destruction of the Tigray, T-I-G-R-A-Y, which you will see on that map is the northernmost segment of Ethiopia next to Eritrea. And you remember what we have talked about in Operation Gladio and how they take these border areas in.

9:01 countries where we already control the government and they set up terrorist training camps on these border areas and they are used to insert insurgencies and create instability and chaos in countries. So just keep that in mind. Hassan blamed the U.S. because they encouraged a group called the TPLF, who...

9:31 basically began creating chaos throughout Ethiopia. And then the U.S. immediately after this chaos began, ordered sanctions placed on Ethiopia to financially weaken it, which is, again, a pattern that we see repeatedly. So they create the chaos and then there's sanctions immediately imposed.

10:00 in order to weaken a government to make it right for overthrowing it. And it also gave, like in the Mockingbird media, you saw all of these stories that accused the Ethiopian government of overreacting and being kind of responsible for these uprisings, even though they knew.

10:30 that that was not true. And so, of course, then the Ethiopian government has no choice but to counter offensive these uprisings. And when they do that, then it gives the State Department and the U.S. government even more ammunition to say, oh, my God, they're repressing their people. It's this vicious cycle that they start. Well, this time, this

11:04 The Tigray People's Liberation Front, that's TPLF, launched an insurgency in November of 2020. So this is very recent. And Hassan blamed the U.S. And basically, as a result, in just two years, it was estimated that over 600,000 people were killed.

11:35 in this uprising. The U.S. main motive for encouraging the rebellion was to restore the TPLF to power in Ethiopia, which they had been installed in power from 1991 to 2018, and to use the TPLF to control the Strategic Horn of Africa region. Hassan

12:05 Ali recounted a visit that he had in early 1990s with the then National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, who told him that the U.S. strategy for maximizing its influence in Africa in the post-Cold War era was by dividing the continent into four sub-regions dominated by anchor states so that they could gain leverage over them. These states were...

12:35 Egypt under Mubarak, South Africa under Mbeki, Nigeria under General Abaka, and Ethiopia under the TPLF rule. And its leader at the time was Zenawi, Z-E-N-A-W-I. And he was president from 1991 until 95.

13:05 Now, keep in mind, most of that time is President Clinton's term. He then went on to be prime minister from 95 until 2018. He served as prime minister. When they first came to power in Ethiopia in 1991, the TPLF had popular legitimacy because they had helped overthrow.

13:38 The Derg, D-E-R-G, a Marxist dictatorship led by, I'm going to butcher this name, Medinstu Halimaryam, M-A-R-I-A-M. The U.S. hated Medinstu because he closed U.S. military bases in Ethiopia and also

14:07 a huge communication base in Eritrea. So now just let that sink in for just a second, because what's happening right now with people coming to power in Africa right now and closing or kicking the U.S. military out of the bases over there, this is 1991. And I'm going to reserve the Marxist dictatorship label of this guy.

14:40 He may be. I don't know. But this labeling of people by our State Department, as I have said repeatedly, may or may not be true. And I think that's what gets us in trouble. And we have been programmed to have visceral reactions to these labeling.

15:09 that they do. And the labeling may or may not be correct. So what we have to do is do research. We have to actually dig into what makes people have these attributes. Are they really what our media and State Department is trying to brainwash us into believing that they are? They may be. They may not be.

15:39 And I'm not drawing conclusions. I'm putting information out there that counter addresses everything that we've been programmed to believe. So according to one of the researchers that is also a doctor, Dr. Simon Tesfamarium.

16:06 who was an Eritrean doctor and activist living in New York. The TPLF was a minority regime in that it preferentially represented the interest of the Tyranian, I don't know how to say that, the Tyran area people, those people up in the north, which make up only 6% of the entire Ethiopian population. And those are the people.

16:36 that the U.S. government wanted to install in power. Now, this is very much like what they did in Angola by teaming up with the Unida tribe and tried to install people that was not politically popular, but they were corrupt and it could be controlled. Now, I really, I have to be honest with you guys. I struggle with this a lot because during...

17:06 my formal education and the time that I was in the U.S. military, one of the things that I learned and was taught, quite frankly, is throughout Africa, back in the, you know, late 1800s, early 1900s, when, well, primarily 1800s, when Africa was being colonized.

17:31 You had, you know, the the Belgians, you had Portugal, you had the Dutch, you had the French and you had the English. And the material was basically presented that most English former colonies like South Africa or India, when they withdrew, they in Hong Kong, for that matter, when they withdrew.

18:00 they at least left some functioning infrastructure that could take over, like some hierarchy they trained, they educated, blah, blah, blah. That's what I found out since then is that's not necessarily true, but let's just go with that for just a second. But in many cases, former French colonies, specifically in Africa,

18:29 The exact opposite happened. We experienced that with the Congo and Belgium and some of the other ones, Portugal with Angola, blah, blah, blah. They don't leave an educated population. They don't leave a stable government. And what I found fascinating about the French is they not only didn't leave educated, stable governments.

18:55 They had, in many cases, we actually had this Canadian officer come to Air War College and talk to us about this because he was of French descent. And so he had been on deployments with the U.N. into U.N. peacekeeping in some of these former French colonies where these massacres were happening. And he said, what you oftentimes found was.

19:24 Just what this is saying, which is why I want to explain this to you guys. The French, in some cases, not all cases, but in some cases, would specifically go into these countries and find the smallest minority that had for, you know, 40, 50, 100, 300 years, whatever the case may be.

19:49 there would be a minority and a majority tribe. And there's a whole bunch of tribes, but just go with the scenario. And the French would take a minority tribe that had been preyed upon by the majority, and they would install them in power, the minority one. Because the French's real reason for being there was to steal the resources.

20:16 They would take this minority tribe and bring them to the seat of government. And the French army would be basically there to carry out and protect this installed. And then this minority would obviously train their own kinsmen into a militant force. And they would go out and exact revenge on.

20:45 hundreds of years of repression by the majority. And then when the French, you know, in the mid-60s, late 50s, all began leaving these colonial countries, being kicked out or however they left, you had now the majority of the people who had been repressed under this minority tribe, and they were...

21:14 fucking pissed off at having been hammered, even though you can say whether it's justified or not. But they then extracted revenge on the minority tribes and hundreds of thousands of people were murdered. And the French, in many cases, didn't even care. They're gone. You know, they're like.

21:40 you know, case or sarah, sarah, whatever, things are going to work themselves out. And I can remember listening to this guy. And I mean, obviously, it was much more articulate and kind of put roses on all of that. But that's what I got out of the whole conversation. And I just found that crazy that they would purposely go in and turn a country upside down.

22:08 And then he told the story of one of his peers. And I'm not going to remember the guy's name and I didn't have time to look it up. But there was a three star Canadian officer, three star general that had went on a U.N. deployment that was like this, a former classmate of this guy's. And he happened to be in one of these former French colonies during one of these massacres. And the French.

22:37 or the UN deployment was present at one of the fights where the indigenous people were hacking up the minority tribesmen that had been empowered by France for like the last 40 years and had repressed the majority. And the three-star

23:05 Canadian officer was found three months after he returned from that deployment and watching this massacre unfold in front of him. He was found in a Canadian park and had had a mental breakdown, like just a bowl of jello. He ended up being institutionalized and at least at the time.

23:34 Back in 2003, when this other Canadian officer was speaking to us, he had not recovered. They don't know whether at the time they didn't know whether he would ever recover. He had just lost his marbles after having seen such inhumanity unfold in front of him. And this is the very thing that happens with this type of manipulation.

24:03 They are, whether you like it or not, there are countries that are much more tribal in nature than anything that we have in the United States. And what we absolutely cannot do is we cannot go over there and force feed a model of government on another country that based on where they're out at culturally or whatever.

24:32 isn't going to be able to subscribe to that. And you sure as hell can't turn your entire freaking society upside down and then walk away. But that is what has happened in many of these cases. And then without any of this information, without knowing anything about what has happened in the past, our State Department gets on television at night and they will tell you that there has been a genocide.

25:03 not ever explaining what their role in creating the genocide was. And that's where we have to spend the time to learn history, learn what our role in history has been. And that's why I think what we're doing right now is so important. So let's go on with the story. The doctor, Tesfar Marion.

25:33 had told a journalist, Ann Garrison, that over the last three decades, the U.S. showered the TPLF minority regime with roughly $1 billion of UNI's tax money in aid under the guise of humanitarian assistance. In exchange, the TPLF served as Washington's policeman in the Horn of Africa.

26:03 It used its influence in the African Union, which is based in Addis Ababa, to protect Washington's interest on the African continent. So basically what, let me just rephrase that. What that's saying is the State Department was using, under the guise of humanitarian aid like USAID, our tax dollars to create

26:33 an Operation Gladio force called the TPLF to be the paramilitary enforcers to go throughout the Horn of, excuse me, the Horn of Africa, the Horn of Africa and all of Africa for that matter, enforcing the US's will. Hassan Ali said that in order to sustain his,

27:05 kleptocratic rule, Zenawi provoked ethnic division and committed large-scale war crimes against when Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006 and 2007 and provoked a war with Eritrea in 1998 where the TPLF carried out a large-scale ethnic cleansing operation against Eritreans living in

27:35 Ethiopia, because remember that the Eritreans are up north where this pocket of TPLF people are. So they're launching, they created basically, in our terminology, not that of this author's, in our terminology, they created basically Gladio cells up in that area, terrorist training camps, and then we're launching

28:03 operations into Somalia and Eritrea. Another professor, Dr. Saleh Mohamed Idris, recounted before the International People's Tribunal a conversation between Zanawi and a CIA agent by the name of Paul Henze, which we ran across him before, H-E-N-Z-E, where Zanawi said that

28:33 quote, look at the conflict from the point of view of Tigray. It needs access to the Red Sea, and the only way is through Eritrea, which gained its independence from Ethiopia in 1991. And again, go back and look at the map of that area, and you're going to see exactly what they're talking about. You've got

29:02 Eritrea and up north in Ethiopia, which the northern boundary, you know, Ethiopia doesn't have any water access. So in order to get to the water to where the Suez Canal is up north, you've got to get through Eritrea. And Eritrea at some point used to be Ethiopian and declared its independence. And now.

29:30 Obviously, the the tribe that we were supporting was blocked from water access. So they're going to our tax dollars are going to be used to create turmoil in the 1991 independent Eritrea. So, you know, we have another talking point where we can say, oh, yeah, that government's unstable, too.

29:57 Because it's our tax dollars that are creating the instability. So in 2018, the TPLF was overthrown in a popular uprising that resulted in the rise to power of Abiy Ahmed, A-H-M-E-D, a former member of the Oromo Democratic Party.

30:24 who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for his role in helping to broker a durable peace agreement with Eritrea, and for releasing political prisoners and establishing a free press after years of TPLF authoritarian rule. According to Hassan Ali, the peace deal with Eritrea worried the U.S. imperial planners, who preferred a conflict-ridden Hornet region,

30:54 over which they could assert power through the divide and conquer rules. To make matters worse, Eritrean president, these guys' names just cracks me up, Isris Afwarki, A-F-W-E-R-K-I, was considered, you guys are going to love this, a Castro-type figure, and Eritrea, an African equivalent to Cuba.

31:27 Along with Zimbabwe, it is the only country in Africa to resist the presence of U.S. AFRICOM. So in other words, they won't play ball with the United States. Therefore, they get labeled for being a Castro. You just can't make this shit up. After gaining its independence in 1991, following a long liberation struggle,

31:57 that they found necessary by the decision of the U.S. Defense Secretary John Foster Dulles in the 1950s to support Ethiopia's occupation of Eritrea. Eritrea rejected loans from the World Bank and the IMF and promoted economic self-reliance under what this author labels a socialist governing model.

32:26 So, in other words, the World War II made-up map resulted in Ethiopia being given Eritrea. Eritrea, who gained its independence in 1991, basically would not allow the World Bank, the IMF,

32:57 or anybody else to include the Department of Defense from the U.S. in its country. To punish it for its defiance, the U.S. began imposing crippling sanctions under the false pretext that Eritrea supported the Somalian terrorist group al-Shabaab. After the TPLF tried to overthrow the Ethiopian government, Eritrea

33:27 was accused of dressing its soldiers in Ethiopian army uniforms and committing atrocities against the Tigray people in North Ethiopia. So where have we seen that before? Where have we seen the CIA dressing people up in a uniform and doing false flags?

33:55 They are now accusing another government of doing exactly what they do. And that's the story we get sold. And then we sanction the government and not really because of the attack that was a false flag, but because they won't let us control their shit.

34:17 The sanctions as such were expanded upon to the detriment of the Eritrean people who were deprived of medicines, goods, and prevented from carrying out financial transactions on the SWIFT system because you have to financially break these people. Failing to acknowledge the negative impact of the sanctions, an article in The Atlantic by a former chief of missions at the U.S. Embassy, Steve Walker,

34:48 which means he's a CIA agent, characteristically referred to Eritrea as a human rights house of horrors and a totalitarian state, you know, because he's Cuba, which was poor and had no realistic hopes of development thanks to their revolutionary economic policies. Not because they cut them off from the world, because of what they did. Margaret Kimberly.

35:16 wrote in Black Agenda Report that such negative and prejudiced views obscured the fact that Eritrea is a functioning and proudly sovereign state, which overcomes the hardships created by U.S. sanctions to care for its people. It was Eritrea's military intervention, furthermore, at the request of the Abiy regime in November and December of 2020 that wiped out the backbone of the TPLF army.

35:46 which the U.S. backed, by the way. So basically, Ethiopia and the Eritrean governments kind of collaborated to get rid of the propped up stooges that the CIA and the U.S. had been using to create turmoil. Another investigative journalist from Belgium who testified at the People's Tribunal on U.S. imperialism that the Tigray War

36:15 checked all of the boxes of Western war propaganda. Western economic interest in geopolitical scheming in the Horde of Africa was obscured and the history of U.S. imperial intervention in the region was ignored, along with the history of the TPLF atrocities. Piggybacking off of the official statements of the U.S. State Department, the media made it seem as if Ahmed had

36:43 started the war because he had become arrogant after winning the Nobel Peace Prize when the TPLF was reported to have initiated the hostilities by attacking the Ethiopian army's northern command. On November 4, 2020, the Ethiopian government was accused of committing legions of atrocities amounting to genocide and trying to induce famine to starve the Tigray population when atrocities were committed.

37:10 On all sides of the war and no famine actually resulted. And you guys are not even going to believe this. This is a tweet. There's a picture in this article of a tweet from Samantha Powers, our wonderful USAID CIA bullshit artist, saying breaking UN relief chief declares just now that hashtag Tigray.

37:41 There is famine now. There is famine now. He adds, this is going to get a lot worse. Oh my God. Oh my God. I added the oh my God part. That was in 2021. So she is using the official government Twitter account of the USAID to lie to the American people. There was never a famine.

38:13 And what she meant to say was their puppet agitators were getting their ass kicked by two independent, democratically elected people in countries that they had tried to antagonize for decades. That's what she meant to say. A parade of articles echoed the inflammatory narrative.

38:43 including Left Wing Nation magazine. And I looked during that time at like Atlantic and Washington Post. And again, it's the Mockingbird Media. You see this narrative repeated over and over again. Democracy Now produced a series of similar reports alleging genocide, ethnic cleansing, rape, blah, blah, blah. Sudanese born.

39:12 Elbiger, who is reportedly married to the current British ambassador to Iraq, Mark Bryson Richard, relentlessly pushed this narrative of genocide perpetrated by the Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and in September 2022 won an Emmy Award for her documentary, Ethiopian Hallmarks of a Genocide. Now again,

39:43 Notice the words. When the CIA says that something has the hallmarks of Russian disinformation, that is the plausible deniability that it doesn't actually have to be Russian disinformation. I'm going to use that word to make you mentally think that it is, even when I know for a fact it's not.

40:13 And so her choice of the words hallmarks of a genocide means it absolutely is not a genocide. I'm just going to do this shit to convince you that it is. Because if it was, I would have called it a genocide and I'd have information to produce that it was. But I don't, so I'm just going to call it the hallmarks of one. Words matter.

40:42 Unreported in this documentary is the fact that the first massacre of the war was committed by the TPLF militia that we trained, up to a billion dollars of your tax dollars, at Maikadra on the Sudan border, November 9th, 2020. The TPLF also fired rockets at civilian targets extending into Eritrea, forced the conscription of child soldiers,

41:12 used humanitarian relief supplies, that's your tax dollars, committed gang rapes, and fabricated evidence of Ethiopian war crimes. Western media generally left the impression that Ethiopian army would carry out a genocide if the U.S. did not intervene to protect the Tigray people. Leilu pointed out that the demonization of the Ethiopian military and Abe Ahmed,

41:42 was comparable to the same demonization of Gaddafi, Milosevic, Putin, and other foreign leaders that the US was intent on overthrowing. Many US-based journalists and academics relied for their assessment on the TPLF representatives, allowing the US and the TPLF to monetize

42:10 or monopolize the debate. The consequences was to help build public support for the U.S. sanctions and the military intervention, which the usual cohorts of liberal proponents of humanitarian intervention were eager to support. Danish journalist Ramos Sonderes published an online book called Getting Ethiopia Dead Wrong, which concluded

42:39 that Western media, academics, and humanitarian aid organizations demonized a friendly person and fueled a big war with dire misproductions and shocking lies. Central to these lies was the use of the word genocide. Soldaris wrote that the media-borne narrative that Ethiopians' motivation was to commit genocide was concocted to confer legitimacy on the violent pursuit of power.

43:10 by the TPLF. A key media influencer promoting the genocide narrative was none other than the World Health Organization Director General Tedros, whatever you say his last name. A go-to media source who hid his own background as part of the TPLF ruling elite in Ethiopia. So now do you understand why he's

43:40 where he is, he was part of the TPLF that the U.S. government propped up. That's where he came from. Alex DeWall, executive director of the World Peace Foundation and professor at Tufts University Fletcher School near Boston, was another prominent media fixture misrepresenting the conflict. According to Sonderas,

44:11 who urged the Biden administration to take a tougher line in The Guardian and other left-of-center publications for which he writes. DeWalt ironically penned an article in the Boston Review in 2016 in which he wrote, quote, the West likes morality plays with clear heroes and villains in which we play the role of savior, unquote. This is exactly what Sanderis accused him of doing for Ethiopia.

44:42 A founder of the Save Darfur movement, which historian Mahmoud Mamdani called a humanitarian arm of the war on terror, DeWall previously cast the story of genocide in Sudan as an Arab-African affair devoid of Western interest. Further, DeWall depicted that the Hutu

45:10 as the bad guys and the Tutsis as the good guys in Rwanda, despite the fact that the Tutsi leader, Paul Kagame, triggered the April 1994 Rwandan genocide by invading Rwanda illegally and shooting down the airplane of Hutu president, Habi Arama.

45:37 Sedaris writes that DeWall and other Western journalists falsely reported on the defeat of Ethiopian forces and often advanced the stereotypical dark continent savagery that lent support to U.S. foreign policy intervention. One of the main critics of Western media narratives, ironically, was conservative Oklahoma James Inahop, a notorious war hawk.

46:05 who characterized the TPLF as a terrorist group and called for a rollback of U.S. sanctions targeting the Ethiopian government. And here's a quote, because I do want to put this on there. It is astounding to me, this is him saying, Jim Inhofe from Oklahoma, quote, it is astounding to me that our government continues to treat this situation in Ethiopia with both sides being equal when clearly they are not.

46:33 One side is the democratically elected government. The other side is a disgruntled faction reacting with violence because they are no longer in power. It's a terrorist group, unquote. Here's another quote. It is Prime Minister Ahmed who is working to protect the unified, peaceful, stable Ethiopia. We should be talking to him about how we can help him restore peace, not slapping.

47:01 punitive sanctions on his government. You know, because of democracy. That was my part. Edward Hunt, a PhD in American Studies, wrote an article in the Progressive depicting the TPLF as leftists in favoring more of a status model of development and presenting the overthrow of Ackman's government, which purged Tegre officials and allegedly favored Amhara.

47:31 as something positive. He said that it would reverse the neoliberal and pro-American political agenda of Ahmed, who Hunt blamed for starting the war, though Sondaras says that the most Ethiopians saw things very differently. One Ethiopian commenting on Hunt's story wrote that the TPLF is a tiny regional ethnic party drunk with regionalism.

48:00 Wounded by an inferiority complex, a leftover commie mess from the 1960s. The West put them in power in 1991. The other 90% kicking and screaming. They butchered, tortured, and looted for 27 years. Abe was elected by 40 million votes. Only the Ethiopian people can remove him.

48:28 It's easier for the apartheid regime to return to power in South Africa than the sadist TPLF in Ethiopia, meaning no way in hell that's happening. Another reader wrote, the war was not started by the Ethiopian government. The TPLF thugs went at night and surprised attacked and killed the soldiers at a North Ethiopian army base. They attacked the army base.

48:56 that was protecting the Tigrays for 20 years. They went at night and slaughtered the soldiers and stole weapons. That is why the Ethiopian government went north and retrieved the weapons and war resumed. So the 20-year liar TPLF is the one that started the war, unquote. One reason the U.S. may have opposed Ahmed and imposed sanctions on his government was because he forged closer relationships with China.

49:24 which supported Ethiopia in the Tigray War and favored regional integration that would undercut U.S.'s influence in the Horn. A sign that a covert operation was afoot was the creation of a Twitter hashtag, Tigray Genocide, which appears to have originated with the State Department, CIA, and other U.S. government agencies.

49:53 That's crazy. And the date of that is April 11th, 2020. That is crazy. Another hashtag promoted justice for Tigray women and children, girls, allegedly subjected to mass rape, though the scale of these rapes were grossly inflated, according to Sanderas, and many rapes were committed by the TPLF, along with other atrocities that was unreported by the Western media.

50:24 And that hashtag was justice for Tigray's women and girls with all kinds of crazy pictures. The Twitter campaign seemed reminiscent of the 2014 campaign supported by Michelle Obama to save Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram.

50:52 Kony 2012 campaign in which the atrocities of the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony was played up in order to justify a covert U.S. military operation in support of the Museveni government to hunt down Kony and protect U.S. military bases. I'd like to say I'm shocked, but I'm not. And again, this is a pattern.

51:17 You can see the State Department, the CIA, setting up these Twitter hashtags in order to mount these propaganda campaigns. Mosavani was, like the TPLF, a loyal U.S. ally who for years had been used as a key anchor to help the U.S. access Central America's vast mineral riches. Thus, history appears to be repeating itself with the Western intelligentsia.

51:45 playing a key role once again in the perpetuation of Western colonialism. So, yet another pattern of how we are manipulated and our tax dollars are spent doing things that we would never, ever want done in our name. So, with that...

52:18 I'm going to open up. Bridget, I know you did a lot of research on this. Do you want to comment on any of the stuff that you found? I am just blown away. And I know I say this all the time, but I am just blown away that they keep doing the same thing over and over within these countries. You know, it's like every time they start to get a foothold of getting their country back.

52:49 They use the same group under the same name to create a civil war or attempt. If they don't effectively to the president or leader, prime minister, et cetera, et cetera, they will essentially go through and create so much death and destruction that it takes years for these countries to be able to even.

53:18 see some sort of normalcy again you know i mean i'm just the depth of the evil in this and they do it and it's like they move from this country to that country and they might bounce back to this country and and um and the ted rose thing though that was that was kind of out of nowhere i didn't see that one coming well and what also um i find interesting is their constant

53:49 go to is Cuba. We're back to Cuba again. And I just clicked on that article. This article, the actual name of the article is Eritrea, the African Cuba. That's crazy. Yeah. So you've got a country that fought for its independence. It's now independent. It doesn't want U.S. shit in it.

54:18 Why don't they have the ability to say, I don't want your shit in my country without being clubbed over the head with our shit? That's what I, that's just what dumbfounds me. Why does everybody, according to our State Department and the CIA, have to have our shit in it? And I don't see how they can justify, I mean, they create the rebels.

54:49 And then they publicly come out and denounce the rebels. And then they throw the money and back the rebels. I just don't have words. Me either. Me either. Carrie, you have a question? Yeah. Hi, guys. First, I want to say something, though, about Democracy Now! And then I do have a question. So I worked for Democracy Now! in...

55:25 2006 and 7 and they are so corrupt oh my god we tried to bring a union there and because our you know they were horrible employers and um we're reporting on how walmart is this horrible oh my god and

55:56 Meanwhile, we're facing, you know. Anyway, so I just wanted to second that they are incredibly corrupt. And I would say CIA connected. And also I worked at a PBS news show. And now in my head, I'm like, oh, my God, who was a CIA agent? Because it's just so. But anyway, my question is.

56:28 So I've heard them say things like, we have hundred year plans. I think it was Brennan said that at one point. And so what do we think, because we know a lot about them, what is their plan when they are uncovered, which is what's kind of happening now, I think.

57:00 Their long-term plan is international fascism. They were very clear when they started this in the late 1800s that they want international fascism. They want one government, and they are going to have the heads of these geographically aligned pan-America, pan-Europe, pan-Asia garbage, and they're going to control the world.

57:28 That's their instinct. They have a plan. And we're all going to be slaves. No, I mean, what's the plan when they're found out? So you're like a burglar and you go into a house. Do you have a plan for if someone's there? What's your plan if you get found out? Because they are being found out. They're being revealed. Not just by you. Other people are like, what?

57:58 You know what I mean? What's what do you think their sociopathic plan is? I understand they want fascism and they want, you know, to silence us and to discredit us to pretend like we're not exposing them. And that's why they try to assassinate President Trump. The more quickly they are being exposed, the more.

58:27 backed into a corner they're going to get. Yeah, that's what I'm kind of wondering. Like, how can we plan knowing their, you know what I mean? Like, what do we do? To me, and I've said this repeatedly, your job is to more quickly

59:00 speed up the exposure. When you go to town halls, when you go to church, when you go to socials, when you go to wherever, you need to be talking about this and exposing people. Have people look at this material, listen to these podcasts, and say that the more exposed they are,

59:29 the faster we're going to get to the end of it. That's all I can tell you. Because I think that's exactly what President Trump sat in motion was the exposure. Upon his election, the clock started clicking for them. And this has been a steady march, not as quickly as most of us want, but a steady march down the exposure.

1:00:03 And we all have a responsibility to share this information. And I will tell you, I'm so impressed with you guys. The amount of exposure this has got. I mean, we definitely have the and if it's part of their operation, it has to be part of our operation. If the State Department, the CIA create hashtags to make exposure of what they want exposed, even though it's lies.

1:00:31 Alpha was ingenious last week when he pushed the hashtag, not that we haven't already been using it, but he brought it up front. And the more they get exposed, I get sent things from you guys every day that says, oh, my God, I heard such and such talk about Operation Gladio. The exposure is real. It's happening. And you guys are making a huge difference.

1:01:03 Thank you. I'm just a Virgo and I'm like, I like organizing things. So I, I need like, it goes in this bin and I do that, you know, I compartmentalize and what do I do next? What's my next step? It's so funny. She just described all three of us. Are you guys Virgos? No, it's just that compartmentalization and trying to keep, and one of the funniest things is we struggle with.

1:01:36 Because we come across the same people over and over and over again. And it's like, okay, so we try to organize this. And it's such a web that you end up with cross-posting. Does this go in South Africa or does this go in over here? Because this is sort of related to that. And it's just seeing all these cross. Now, one of the things I did want to say.

1:02:03 If you don't mind, I'll jump in here real quick. Go ahead. Okay. You know, one of the things, and it hit me last night, how they did Trump. You know how we talk about patterns. They attack someone. First, they attempt to discredit their character. They will start with their sexual life, their personal life, their financial life, in disorder. Their business life.

1:02:35 You know, they start with this because I don't know if it's because they're so mentally deranged. They start with the sex life, which was like the Stormy Daniels garbage. And then they try with the money thing. Oh, he cheated on his taxes. And he said, no, I didn't cheat on the tax. They use the tax system that you put in place. Every because they are so repetitive in how they attack. It was a neat thing now to look.

1:03:08 back hindsight wise and see how Trump already had, if you could say, thought ahead on his moves on if they come at me for this, this is what I'm going to do. I don't think any of that came as a surprise to him because they do it every single time. Anytime somebody comes out and attempts to call their hand on it, the first thing they go to is the sex life, the money, the business.

1:03:39 over and over and we've seen it happen with a lot of these whistleblowers um and a lot of the people that have been coming out and speaking out against them and then comes the names the labeling we talk about it all the time the communist nazi remember when they said this about trump nazi homophobe anti-semitic anti-semitic xenophobe you know on and on and on

1:04:10 they come back with the labels. And anytime they're doing that, you know you're standing on their nerve. Whatever it is that you're standing on at that moment, look deeper into it. If they're calling him a homophobe, all of a sudden that's the only answer they have to him? Or anti-Semitic or Nazi, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That means he must be standing on one of their nerves and they're trying to, they don't have an answer.

1:04:39 And their only answer is to deflect to one of these labels. Anyway, thank you. Absolutely. SR71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And thank everybody for joining the chat and joining us on Rumble. What I want to say is this, mentioning Trump. Trump is a sly fox. People don't realize this. The one thing that he's really done that really, really gets to the craw of these people.

1:05:13 is he made it about himself. And they tell on each other. The minute Trump starts talking about all the other stuff that's going on, all of a sudden, he takes all the blame, and then they start talking about what they're doing, which makes the public angrier. He's sly as a fox. Don't forget that. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. Thank you. You're definitely right about that.

1:05:43 It is so obvious when, again, you zoom out to the 30,000-foot look that there is a kind of genius to the exposure that is happening. And it's amazing, quite frankly. I don't know another word to describe it. Truly amazing.

1:06:12 Does anybody else have anything they want to bring up? I got one question for you, Colonel. Sure. Did John like the cantaloupe? He has not had any. He is back now, but he's out in the yard. So I do have to tell everybody. Obviously, Cousin It and Bridget and I spend an inordinate amount of time together, both texting, on signal, on the telephone, blah, blah, blah.

1:06:44 Um, and we all have to whatever level that we can, um, a green thumb. Um, we love gardening and at some point I will give you guys a video tour. I don't, I don't. Yes you do. You have potatoes, girlfriend. Hush. No, I, I, I don't know everything I have. Yeah, whatever. Anyway, um, we, um,

1:07:15 talk about that in our conversations. Well, Bridget kind of showed both of us up with this amazing, what we referred to when I grew up in Indiana, muskmelon or cantaloupe structure, which tomorrow we will share some pictures of because it's amazing. And out of the kindness of her heart, Bridget sent me.

1:07:44 two overnight cantaloupes that I got this morning at like nine o'clock. And they are like nine inches in diameter. They're the biggest freaking cantaloupe because that's why in Indiana, they call them muskmelons because they are not actual cantaloupes. Although they're in the cantaloupe family, they're freaking huge. And they were amazing like candy as far as the taste of them goes.

1:08:13 So, of course, I had to save my seeds. And I am going to try to grow them myself. But they were amazing. And so I already ate one whole kilo while my husband was out at a business meeting. So, yeah, I felt like I was going to puke, but I just couldn't stop. So, anyway, they were amazing. So I did save the one.

1:08:43 so that I can at least share some of that. But anyway, go ahead. Why is the New York, New York or whatever? Go ahead. Hello. Yes, excellent program. And I just wanted to, you mentioned Indiana just triggered a concept or thought of mine. The 1968.

1:09:13 R.F.K. or actually the 1968 Democratic National Committee primary in Indiana is, in my opinion, probably the most revelatory campaign in all U.S. history. And that's quite a statement. And I'm kind of like presumptuous sometimes. But, hey, the reason being, it's like we're told Indiana is, quote, the most racist state in the country. It was actually in Illinois.

1:09:42 Are you talking about the convention? No, no, no. I'm talking about the Indiana Democratic primary campaign of 1968. And just there's a historian at IU who's written an amazing book about it. Everybody should check it out because basically RFK was basically uniting, you know, the working class of the black and white working class in the state that we're told is so racist, allegedly.

1:10:12 He was uniting the working class to a large, to an unbelievable extent, you know, simply belying, you know, showing that when there's an alternative on the menu, it will be assassinated to protect the CIA's duopoly. Okay. The other thing I wanted to mention is, so again, that book is IU Press 2008. It's called Robert F. Kennedy and the Indiana Primary of 1968.

1:10:41 It is amazing. The other thing I wanted to mention very quickly, because I know I'm running on here, is there's a program called Dave Emery Archives, E-M-O-R-Y, Dave Emery Archives, WFMU is the radio station where it's located. But he has had on a guest the last, I would say maybe five weeks, named Monty, who is...

1:11:08 He seems to be former military intelligence background. And he has these shows are as a longtime JFK assassination researcher who has, you know, witnessed some extremely earth shaking movements in in relationship to recent revelations about Nazi capital exfiltration at the end of World War Two.

1:11:36 and the connections to the international aspects of the JFK assassination. What this guy, Monty, on Dave Emery's show, which everyone could listen to online, has uncovered is just OMG to the nth degree over here. I mean, I can't even begin to describe it, but I mean, I'll just give you a kind of one quick glimpse, and then I'll try to shut my mouth.

1:12:06 We all know about the importance of Reinhard Galen and his aide, you know, Otto Skorzeny, right? We know how Alan Dulles put Reinhard Galen, who literally is Hitler's former intelligence boss, right? Yeah, we've covered all of this. Go ahead. Yeah. Rinse him off a bit and put him in West Germany, you know, which is important in terms of the Ukraine connections today. We know that, but...

1:12:35 Monty has shown that the guy William Harvey, who is an absolutely key figure in the JFK assassination, six ways from Sunday in the words of our, never mind, I don't want to mention him, was under Reinhard Galen. So in other words, Alan Dulles puts Reinhard Galen in West Germany, this former Nazi intel boss, and William Harvey was under Reinhard Galen.

1:13:05 There's all kinds of, you know, to put someone like William Harvey under a guy who's in the Western, head of the Western and BND. It kind of like it creates a whole nother group of people willing to cover to cover up the crime. You know, if it implicates Western, if it looks Western, but it's really CIA dot, dot, dot. And it's kind of interesting. Well, I'll just just urge people to if you can to.

1:13:35 Check out the series of interviews. It's called Conversations with Monty at WFMU because this guy has really done his homework. But anyway, I greatly enjoyed the show as usual. Thank you. Yeah, we ran across these guys when we did the research on.

1:14:03 Operation Gladio originally when we were doing the Cynthia Chung book in the history and also some of the other books, not so much Paul Williams' book, but Daniel Gansler's book, kind of pulled all of these. Also, the one that Otto Skorzeny, by Major Gannis, his book was the Skorzeny Papers.

1:14:32 brought a lot of this to light as far as the history and interaction. And basically, the BND was set up as a on-site, at the time, subordinate organization to the CIA. And it was done in exchange for keeping Reinhard Galen out of a death sentence at Nuenberg.

1:15:02 And the deal was that Reinhard Galem was going to come to the United States and disclose all of the Axis stay-behind units that he had already fielded with Otto Skorzeny as the trainer to include those that were in Ukraine, like Banderas, the Azov Battalion, all of those. Those are born directly out of this initiative.

1:15:28 And of course, we disclosed the fact that the BND and the CIA co-owned Crypto AG, which was a eavesdropping capability with back doors to over 100 State Department equivalent countries all over the world, where they could spy on every foreign embassy, their message traffic back in...

1:15:58 forth to their home countries. So there was not anything that happened just before World War II to well after, I mean, up until like 2020, when Trump closed that door forever, that the CIA and the BND who co-owned this company didn't know what was going on. They knew everything. And so all of those disclosures are...

1:16:26 part of the peeling back of this onion. And keeping track of these people and where they come from is very, very important. And William Harvey is definitely one of the CIA's assets that was basically put at the right hand of Galen to monitor him for Alan Dulles.

1:16:57 Very good. All right. Anybody have anything else? As always, we've posted a lot of links down there in the description or in the pill or whatever. For you guys, if you want to repost or read or...

1:17:20 Yeah, please. That's kind of our ask of you. We do a lot of research for you guys. Our ask of you is to go down there and repost, like quote post all of the material that's in there. It definitely increases the exposure. And since you guys started doing that, it's been an amazing response because now we get people sending us links.

1:17:47 to further check out and research these topics. And it has increased the visibility huge. And please repost. If you come across, you know, if you're reading the Colonel's post and you like them, repost them. You know, that's going to increase the visibility, break the algorithm to get to where the more people know this, the less they can hide. Sunlight's the best disinfectant.

1:18:19 Yeah, if I could just, a quick comment. You know, people often say they share things. There's a difference between sharing and spreading, right? Spreading, I mean, when the book JFK and the Unspeakable came out, it was just by a tiny, you know, independent publisher. And beginning in 2008, I began spreading it across 50 large newspaper chat rooms. And that built...

1:18:47 you know, exposure so that eventually Simon and Chester picked it up. And, you know, from there it took off. It's just like, in response to Carrie's earlier comment, like, what can we do about this? I think it's easy for us to underestimate the degree of the, you know, Orwellian censorship system that we're in now, you know? So it's just not enough sometimes to simply share. We have to spread.

1:19:17 To many different reposts. Well said, New Yorker. Thank you. It happens once in a while. All right. Anybody else? All right. So tonight, I will be live with Alpha tonight instead of Wednesday night, as I mentioned yesterday. And I think he's either doing 9 or 9.30. I'm not sure which tonight.

1:19:48 We are going to talk a little bit about Venezuela. And without coming to conclusions, I want to present information for people to understand that background as well. I'm not saying who good guys are and who bad guys are. What I am trying to do is give you information so that you can better form opinions yourself.

1:20:17 You will never hear me tell you that you need to believe this. What you need is information. And that's kind of what we view as our job is to provide that information to you. So we are going to be talking about that and a couple other things tonight. So please tune into that tomorrow. We will be here at four o'clock and we're going to continue the African series. And then.

1:20:46 We are not going to be here on Thursday. So. Yay. Because the baby's coming. Because we're going to have a baby. That's right. All right. Yay. I know. I'm trying to keep my enthusiasm in check until it actually happens. So. Anyway. I had good luck with that. Yeah. I know. I get more excited about it. Each passing minute. But anyway.

1:21:20 All right. So just so everybody knows, right, Bridget did all the heavy lifting today because I was unavailable for a better part of today. So, Bridget, thank you so much for picking up my slack. I appreciate it. Okay. The definition of teamwork. And you guys are part of the team. We all are. All right. So.

1:21:50 See you hopefully this evening, but definitely tomorrow at four o'clock.

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Claims made here

United States Central Command member_of Horn of Africa host_asserted ▶ 1:54

“Horn of Africa was part of the CENTCOM AOR and then basically the rest of Africa. And that's area of responsibility, meaning that if crap goes down, it's CENTCOM's responsibility. And again, this was …”

British Empire supplied_arms_to Yemen host_asserted ▶ 6:32

“England, the British Empire, secured for that very reason. That's where, remember I told the story about them stealing the coffee trees? Yemen had the only coffee production in the entire world. The B…”

Mohamed Hassan member_of Meles Zenawi book_quoted ▶ 7:31

“talking about a former Ethiopian diplomat by the name of Mohamed Hassan. And it goes back to the 1990s and him being involved in protests with a future Ethiopian president by the name of Melez Zenawi.…”

United States government funded Tigray People's Liberation Front book_quoted ▶ 9:01

“countries where we already control the government and they set up terrorist training camps on these border areas and they are used to insert insurgencies and create instability and chaos in countries.…”

United States government targeted_for_regime_change Ethiopia book_quoted ▶ 9:31

“basically began creating chaos throughout Ethiopia. And then the U.S. immediately after this chaos began, ordered sanctions placed on Ethiopia to financially weaken it, which is, again, a pattern that…”

Tigray People's Liberation Front carried_out_attack Ethiopia book_quoted ▶ 11:04

“The Tigray People's Liberation Front, that's TPLF, launched an insurgency in November of 2020. So this is very recent. And Hassan blamed the U.S. And basically, as a result, in just two years, it was …”

United States government installed Tigray People's Liberation Front book_quoted ▶ 11:35

“in this uprising. The U.S. main motive for encouraging the rebellion was to restore the TPLF to power in Ethiopia, which they had been installed in power from 1991 to 2018, and to use the TPLF to cont…”

Anthony Lake member_of United States government book_quoted ▶ 12:05

“Ali recounted a visit that he had in early 1990s with the then National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, who told him that the U.S. strategy for maximizing its influence in Africa in the post-Cold War e…”

United States government installed Meles Zenawi book_quoted ▶ 12:35

“Egypt under Mubarak, South Africa under Mbeki, Nigeria under General Abaka, and Ethiopia under the TPLF rule. And its leader at the time was Zenawi, Z-E-N-A-W-I. And he was president from 1991 until 9…”

Tigray People's Liberation Front overthrew Derg book_quoted ▶ 13:05

“Now, keep in mind, most of that time is President Clinton's term. He then went on to be prime minister from 95 until 2018. He served as prime minister. When they first came to power in Ethiopia in 199…”

Mengistu Haile Mariam headed Derg book_quoted ▶ 13:38

“The Derg, D-E-R-G, a Marxist dictatorship led by, I'm going to butcher this name, Medinstu Halimaryam, M-A-R-I-A-M. The U.S. hated Medinstu because he closed U.S. military bases in Ethiopia and also…”

United States government funded Tigray People's Liberation Front book_quoted ▶ 25:33

“had told a journalist, Ann Garrison, that over the last three decades, the U.S. showered the TPLF minority regime with roughly $1 billion of UNI's tax money in aid under the guise of humanitarian assi…”

Tigray People's Liberation Front carried_out_attack Somalia book_quoted ▶ 27:05

“kleptocratic rule, Zenawi provoked ethnic division and committed large-scale war crimes against when Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006 and 2007 and provoked a war with Eritrea in 1998 where the TPLF ca…”

Tigray People's Liberation Front carried_out_attack Eritrea book_quoted ▶ 27:05

Abiy Ahmed member_of Democratic Party book_quoted ▶ 29:57

“Because it's our tax dollars that are creating the instability. So in 2018, the TPLF was overthrown in a popular uprising that resulted in the rise to power of Abiy Ahmed, A-H-M-E-D, a former member o…”

United States government targeted_for_regime_change Eritrea book_quoted ▶ 32:57

“or anybody else to include the Department of Defense from the U.S. in its country. To punish it for its defiance, the U.S. began imposing crippling sanctions under the false pretext that Eritrea suppo…”

United States government funded Tigray People's Liberation Front book_quoted ▶ 35:16

“wrote in Black Agenda Report that such negative and prejudiced views obscured the fact that Eritrea is a functioning and proudly sovereign state, which overcomes the hardships created by U.S. sanction…”

Eritrea carried_out_attack Tigray People's Liberation Front book_quoted ▶ 35:16

Tigray People's Liberation Front carried_out_attack Ethiopia book_quoted ▶ 36:43

“started the war because he had become arrogant after winning the Nobel Peace Prize when the TPLF was reported to have initiated the hostilities by attacking the Ethiopian army's northern command. On N…”

United States trained Tigray People's Liberation Front host_asserted ▶ 40:42

“Unreported in this documentary is the fact that the first massacre of the war was committed by the TPLF militia that we trained, up to a billion dollars of your tax dollars, at Maikadra on the Sudan b…”

Tigray People's Liberation Front carried_out_attack Ethiopia host_asserted ▶ 40:42

United States targeted_for_regime_change Vladimir Putin book_quoted ▶ 41:42

“was comparable to the same demonization of Gaddafi, Milosevic, Putin, and other foreign leaders that the US was intent on overthrowing. Many US-based journalists and academics relied for their assessm…”

United States targeted_for_regime_change Muammar Gaddafi book_quoted ▶ 41:42

United States targeted_for_regime_change Slobodan Milosevic book_quoted ▶ 41:42

United States targeted_for_regime_change Abiy Ahmed book_quoted ▶ 41:42

Ramos Sonderes founded Getting Ethiopia Dead Wrong host_asserted ▶ 42:10

“or monopolize the debate. The consequences was to help build public support for the U.S. sanctions and the military intervention, which the usual cohorts of liberal proponents of humanitarian interven…”

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus member_of Tigray People's Liberation Front host_asserted ▶ 43:10

“by the TPLF. A key media influencer promoting the genocide narrative was none other than the World Health Organization Director General Tedros, whatever you say his last name. A go-to media source who…”

Alex DeWall member_of World Peace Foundation host_asserted ▶ 43:40

“where he is, he was part of the TPLF that the U.S. government propped up. That's where he came from. Alex DeWall, executive director of the World Peace Foundation and professor at Tufts University Fle…”

United States installed Tigray People's Liberation Front host_asserted ▶ 43:40

Paul Kagame assassinated Juvénal Habyarimana host_asserted ▶ 45:10

“as the bad guys and the Tutsis as the good guys in Rwanda, despite the fact that the Tutsi leader, Paul Kagame, triggered the April 1994 Rwandan genocide by invading Rwanda illegally and shooting down…”

Jim Inhofe member_of United States host_asserted ▶ 45:37

“Sedaris writes that DeWall and other Western journalists falsely reported on the defeat of Ethiopian forces and often advanced the stereotypical dark continent savagery that lent support to U.S. forei…”

United States targeted_for_regime_change Abiy Ahmed speculative ▶ 48:56

“that was protecting the Tigrays for 20 years. They went at night and slaughtered the soldiers and stole weapons. That is why the Ethiopian government went north and retrieved the weapons and war resum…”

United States installed Yoweri Museveni host_asserted ▶ 50:52

“Kony 2012 campaign in which the atrocities of the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony was played up in order to justify a covert U.S. military operation in support of the Museveni government to hunt down Kony…”

Allen Dulles installed Reinhard Gehlen caller_asserted ▶ 1:12:06

“We all know about the importance of Reinhard Galen and his aide, you know, Otto Skorzeny, right? We know how Alan Dulles put Reinhard Galen, who literally is Hitler's former intelligence boss, right? …”

Reinhard Gehlen recruited William Harvey caller_asserted ▶ 1:12:35

“Monty has shown that the guy William Harvey, who is an absolutely key figure in the JFK assassination, six ways from Sunday in the words of our, never mind, I don't want to mention him, was under Rein…”

Allen Dulles covered_up William Harvey caller_asserted ▶ 1:13:05

“There's all kinds of, you know, to put someone like William Harvey under a guy who's in the Western, head of the Western and BND. It kind of like it creates a whole nother group of people willing to c…”

Otto Skorzeny trained Reinhard Gehlen host_asserted ▶ 1:15:02

“And the deal was that Reinhard Galem was going to come to the United States and disclose all of the Axis stay-behind units that he had already fielded with Otto Skorzeny as the trainer to include thos…”

William Harvey spied_on Reinhard Gehlen host_asserted ▶ 1:16:26

“part of the peeling back of this onion. And keeping track of these people and where they come from is very, very important. And William Harvey is definitely one of the CIA's assets that was basically …”