Webster Tarpley

Webster Tarpley

At the 2005 Axis for Peace conference
Born Webster Griffin Tarpley
September 1946 (age 69)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality American
Occupation Author, journalist, historian
Website Official website

Webster Griffin Tarpley (born September 1946) is an American author, historian,[1] journalist, lecturer and critic of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Some of his publications revolve around conspiracy theories.[2]

Education

Tarpley was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1946. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1966, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, he became a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Turin, Italy. He later earned a Master of Arts in humanities from Skidmore College and a Ph.D. in early modern history from the Catholic University of America.[3]

Career

In 1971, Tarpley was on the editorial board of The Campaigner, a National Caucus of Labor Committees' journal, according to its masthead.[4] In 1986, Tarpley attempted to run on Lyndon LaRouche's U.S. Labor Party 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.[5] In 1992, Tarpley co-authored with Anton Chaitkin George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, published by LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review.

Since March 2006, Tarpley has had a weekly online talk show called World Crisis Radio,[6] currently hosted on GCNLive.com. Tarpley is a member of the "world anti-imperialist conference" Axis for Peace, 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).[7] Tarpley has also expounded the "Versailles Thesis" laying the blame for the great wars of the 20th century on intrigues by Britain to retain her dominance.[8]

Tarpley is a critic of the Dalai Lama; in 2010 he told Russia Today 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 U.S. funding of pro-Dalai Lama organizations, which he says amounts to $2 million (U.S.) per year, saying "This is a bad deal for the American taxpayers."[9]

9/11 and terrorism analysis

The "rogue network" which Tarpley suspects of the September 11 attacks

Tarpley maintains that the September 11 attacks were engineered by a rogue network of the Military–industrial complex and intelligence agencies as a false flag operation.[10]

On November 21, 2011, while traveling to Syria, Tarpley told Syria's Addounia TV that the Syrian Civil War was a NATO-CIA ploy to destabilize Syria using mercenaries and death squads against the population and the Syrian government.[11]

On April 2, 2012, C-SPAN aired 9/11, False Flags, and Black Ops: An Evening of Debate, in which Tarpley debated his critic Jonathan Kay on conspiracy theories, specifically the truth behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.[12]

On June 7, 2012, interviewed for the NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) regarding the 2011 Norway attacks, Tarpley said, "I believe that the evidence points to a private network, or even a NATO network, within the police that contributed the long time delay until they stormed the Island."[13]

Tarpley proposed on June 18, 2013, at PressTV, that revelations about the National Security Agency by NSA computer system administrator Edward Snowden outlining global and domestic spying by US intelligence agencies might be seen as a "CIA limited hangout operation," that is, to publicize minor public manipulation operations to conceal greater covert misdeeds such as promoting war in the Middle East. He claimed such "gullibility" operations could be traced from Daniel Ellsberg to Julian Assange's WikiLeaks, with a legacy in perfidious politics and governance since the 17th century.[14]

Criticism

Critics of Tarpley note that he still sells copies of the book on the Bush family he co-authored while working for conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche. The book itself was criticized by author David Neiwert who noted:

Like most Larouche texts, the Bush "biography" is a mélange of fact and distortion, written in a highly suppositional style that makes numerous leaps of logic and asserts connections where there is no real evidence to support it, at other times omitting exculpatory or contrary information that reveals a more complete picture. Sifting through it requires a great deal of work, but there are nuggets of fact woven into their text that are substantiated and which deserve proper consideration.[15]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "Russia's Participation in the U.S. Civil War". C-SPAN. September 24, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ Aaronovitch, David (2011). Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History. Random House. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4464-2429-2.
  3. ↑ "tarpley.net". tarpley.net. July 10, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Masthead". The Campaigner 4 (1) (National Caucus of Labor Committees). Winter 1971.
  5. ↑ Rangel, Jesus (August 9, 1986). "Another Assemblyman Ruled Off Primary Ballot". The New York Times.
  6. ↑ "World Crisis Radio on GCNLive". Gcnlive.com. Archived from the original on June 26, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  7. ↑ jennifer-funes (June 15, 2008). "Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 (2008)". IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
  8. ↑ "The Versailles Thesis – Roots of WWI". Members.tripod.com. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Dalai Lama Meeting with Obama". Russia Today interview. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  10. ↑ 9/11 Synthetic Terror, Progressive Press, 4th edition, 2Military–industrial complex007, passim.
  11. ↑ "Tarpley on Syrian Addounia TV". TARPLEY.net / Addounia TV. November 21, 2011. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  12. ↑ "9/11, False Flags, Black Ops Evening Debate _ Video". C-SPAN. April 2, 2012. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Konspirasjonsflom etter 22. juli – 22. juli 2011 – Terroren som rammet Norge". NRK (in Norwegian). June 6, 2012. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  14. ↑ Tarpley, Webster G. (June 18, 2013). "How to identify CIA limited hangout op?". PressTV. Archived from the original on September 3, 2014. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  15. ↑ David Neiwert, "Bush, the Nazis and America," Orcinus, Sunday, September 07, 2003

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