Webster G. Tarpley
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Author
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, journalist
Journalist
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, lecturer, and critic of US foreign and domestic policy. Tarpley maintains that the September 11 attacks were engineered
False flag
False flag operations are covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is flying the flag of a country other than one's own...
by a rogue network of the military industrial complex and intelligence agencies. His writings and speeches describe a model of false flag
False flag
False flag operations are covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is flying the flag of a country other than one's own...
terror operations by a rogue network in the military/intelligence sector working with moles in the private sector and in corporate media, and locates such contemporary false flag operations in a historical context stretching back in the English speaking world to at least the "gunpowder plot
Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.The plan was to blow up the House of...
" in England in 1605. He also maintains that "The notion of anthropogenic global warming is a fraud."
Education
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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in 1946. He received a BA
Bachelor of Arts
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degree summa cum laude in English and Italian from Princeton University
Princeton University
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in 1966. While a student at this university he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Fulbright Scholar at University of Turin
University of Turin
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in Italy
Italy
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. Tarpley also obtained a MA
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
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degree in humanities
Humanities
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from Skidmore College
Skidmore College
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. As well as a Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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from The Catholic University of America in History.
Career
Tarpley was on the editorial board of the National Caucus of Labor CommitteesNational Caucus of Labor Committees
The National Caucus of Labor Committees is a political cadre organization in the United States founded and controlled by political activist Lyndon LaRouche, who has sometimes described it as a "philosophical association"....
' journal, The Campaigner, in 1971, according to its masthead.
As a journalist living in Europe in the 1980s, Tarpley wrote a study commissioned by a committee of the Italian Parliament on the assassination
Assassination
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of Prime Minister Aldo Moro
Aldo Moro
Aldo Moro was an Italian politician and the 39th Prime Minister of Italy, from 1963 to 1968, and then from 1974 to 1976. He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war Prime Ministers, holding power for a combined total of more than six years....
. The study claimed that the assassination was a false flag
False flag
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operation orchestrated by the masonic lodge Propaganda Due
Propaganda Due
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with the cooperation of senior members of Italian government secret services but blamed on the Red Brigades
Red Brigades
The Red Brigades was a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organisation, based in Italy, which was responsible for numerous violent incidents, assassinations, and robberies during the so-called "Years of Lead"...
.
Tarpley was president of the Schiller Institute
Schiller Institute
The Schiller Institute is an international political and economic thinktank, one of the primary organizations of the LaRouche movement, with headquarters in Germany and the United States, and supporters in Australia, Canada, Russia, and South America, among others, according to its website.The...
of the United States in the 1980s and in 1993. In 1986 Tarpley attempted to run on Lyndon LaRouche's
Lyndon LaRouche
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. is an American political activist and founder of a network of political committees, parties, and publications known collectively as the LaRouche movement...
U.S. Labor Party
U.S. Labor Party
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platform in the New York State Democratic Party primary for the U.S. Senate, but was ruled off the ballot because of a defect in his nominating petitions. He was a frequent host of "The LaRouche Connection" which its producer LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review News Service describes as "a news and information cable television program."
Tarpley first gained attention for co-authoring, with Anton Chaitkin
Anton Chaitkin
Anton "Tony" Chaitkin is an author, historian, conspiracy theorist, and political activist with the LaRouche movement. He serves as History Editor for Executive Intelligence Review....
, ("history editor of Executive Intelligence Review") a 1992 book on George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
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, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, which was published by Executive Intelligence Review
Executive Intelligence Review
Executive Intelligence Review is a weekly newsmagazine founded in 1974 by the American political activist Lyndon LaRouche. Based in Leesburg, Virginia, it maintains offices in a number of countries, according to its masthead, including Wiesbaden, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, Melbourne, and Mexico City...
, run by Lyndon LaRouche. He has expounded the "Versailles Thesis" laying the blame for the great wars of the 20th century on intrigues by Britain to retain her dominance. He gained experience as a political operative during his years with the LaRouche movement
LaRouche movement
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but broke away sometime after 1995.
In 2005, Tarpley published 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA. He speaks at length about the themes in the book during an interview in the film Oil, Smoke, Mirrors.
Since March, 2006, Tarpley has had a weekly online talk radio show called World Crisis Radio, currently hosted on GCNLive.com. Tarpley is a member of the "world anti-imperialist conference" Axis for Peace
Axis for Peace
Axis for Peace was a conference organised by Voltaire Network to"gather political and intellectual personalities... already committed against the war logic and who wish to install a permanent structure that could make the voice of peace be heard."...
, of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and of a research Netzwerk of German 9/11 authors founded in September 2006. He is featured in the film, Zero: an investigation into 9/11 (2007–2008).
Tarpley is a critic of the Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...
; in 2010 he told the state-funded Russia Today
Russia Today
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that "pre-1959 Tibet ... was probably the closest thing to hell on earth that you had ... social reform was impossible." In the interview he criticizes US funding of pro-Dalai Lama organizations, which he says amounts to US$2 million per year, saying "this is a bad deal for the American taxpayers."
External links
- Tarpley's Website
- Tarpley's Show on the Genesis Network
- Ground Zero Grassy Knoll - Feature article in New York Magazine (March 20, 2006)
- Publisher's web site
- Amazon.com's Webster Griffin Tarpley page
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