When the Obama administration sent 24 Navy SEALs into Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan, “Geronimo” was the code name for the mission. It was also the code the SEALs used to alert their commanders that they identified their target; and finally “Geronimo-E KIA” was the coded message to confirm that they had killed Bin Laden.
Tonight, Mike and Mark speak with Professor Jim Craven / Omahkohkiaaiipooyii (Big Bear Speaks), a life-long Native American activist, a Professor of Economics at Clark College, Tsinghua University in Beijing and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences about the Obama Administration’s use of “Geronimo” as a code word for Osama Bin Laden, and its’ historical significance.
Professor Craven also talks about cultural differences between China and the U.S., their attitudes towards each other, and the issues that keep the two in a very unsteady balance.
Then: When ex-marine Jose Guerena, a two-tour veteran of Iraq, was shot 60 times on May 5th by an Arizona SWAT team, the Pima County Sheriffs Department immediately made the Search Warrant for marijuana that led to the slaughter of this young man a “secret.” We’ll explore the questions about this warrant that mainstream media is afraid to ask.
About the guest:
Professor James M. Craven, a dual U.S. and Canadian citizen, is a veteran of the U.S. Army and a member of the Blackfoot Nation. His Blackfoot name is Omahkohkiaaiipooyii. For more than 30 years, he has taught economics, geography and ethnology from undergraduate to post-doctoral levels. A professor of economics at Clark College, Craven/Omahkohkiaaiipooyii is a consulting and visiting professor of economics at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, where he serves on the editorial board of the journal “International Critical Thought.”
Additionally, he has been a guest lecturer at Yunnan University in the province of Yunnan and at the Minzu University of China. Located in Beijing Minzu University has been described as the most prestigious of China’s 13 “minzu,” or “nationalities” institutions, serving students from minority groups. Founded in 1911, Tsinghua University, China’s second oldest and largest university, is considered by many to be the premier sciences university in the country. Its graduates include many members of China’s current leadership.
Meeting with members of the Government of China as well as leading Chinese educators, Craven/Omahkohkiaaiipooyii has participated in discussions related to international education, national minorities in China, and U.S.-China relations.
He served as a Tribal Judge dealing with Indian Residential Schools atrocities (of which his own mother was a victim) on a UN-NGO-supported Tribunal in Canada, and has represented Blackfoot in Canadian courts.
Craven/Omahkohkiaaiipooyii has taught in the United States, Europe, India, Puerto Rico, Canada and parts of Asia. In addition to English, he speaks six languages and is currently learning Mandarin Chinese. He has been featured in various Marquis ”Who’s Who” publications including “The World”; “America”; “The West”; “Science and Engineering”; “Finance and Industry”; and “American Education.”
Related links:
What inspired Hitler – a column by Jim Craven
The Killing of Jose Guerera – an expert commentary by Mike Levine
Jim Craven lecture at Clark College:
Bridging Cultural Ties and Understanding:
International Education Within and from China
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Professor Craven is my professor at Clark College in Vancouver, Wa. I have learned more from him in the 3 quarters I have been with him, than I have in my 2.5 years while at Clark. He told me about This show he did and I was curious to hear it out.
Good talk professor Craven.
In my two years at Clark and 1 year as student body president I have yet to meet a professor with as much knowledge as him.
Thank you for the link.
Samson
The privatization of the military and intelligence communities are at the heart of the war on terror–the revolving door between the military/CIA/NSA and private firms like Blackwater and others are what journalists are being tortured and killed for reporting on in Pakistan with the same type revolving door between the Paki Military/ISI and alqaeda/Taliban..
The Paki Military and ISI seem to be working both sides of the war–the pro-American side that justifies the aid we give them and the pro-militant side that justifies the aid from those providing aid for the anti-American/Nato folks—These are people that really hate the American influence on the Paki govt but see all this as a for profit industry unto itself..
The related stories from the past are the CIA arms for hostages people–and the drug cartels.
This is the shadow banking–shadow govt–people who have now evolved into this war on terror operation—and the heroin trade similar to what was going on in vietnam..
The website is the story about one journalist who discovered the true relationship between alqaeda/taliban/militants and the paki navy and made the mistake of writing about it–American media won’t go near it–wishing to keep it all in the conspiracy category so it can be left out of the debate..
http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MF04Df03.html
The enemy of my enemy is my friend– is the sales pitch for an entire industry–that needs to find justification–fear and security–
My question;
Is it possible that the business of terrorism has been taken over by the same type folks in the intelligence world that took over the drug cartels?
The theory is by hunting down the uncontrollable terrorist and replacing them with these privatized intelligence agencies they can manage in some way the political direction of nations to allow things like “no-knock” warrants–and limits to civil rights–
Has terrorism become big buisness just like the drug dealing business has?
In reference to the comments above about the same types of people in drug trafficking as go into terrorism; absolutely, and not only in terms of similar personality profiles. When you connect the dots, from the first terrorists and genocidal maniacs in America–the Pilgrims–to the inbred societies/networks of power they set up that remain today with many of their desendents occupying them, to Skull and Bones founded on the profits of the China opium trade in 1832 by General William Russell and Alphonso Taft (where Geronimo’s remains are still held in violation of Connecticut law), to the formation of the Eugenics Movement in the late 1880s that brought about sterilization laws against Indians, African-Americans and poor Whites in 27 U.S. states, to the formation of the OSS and later CIA (with Skull and Bones creatures well represented and with their own clique inside CIA) to the modern national security state riddled with these types in Obama’s cabinet and those of many other U.S. presidents in the past and the dots add up and almost self-connect as they are often so evident underneath the often-thin layers that cover them. These malignant, hidden, unaccountable forces do exist and do rule and even have a Calvinistic sense of having been predestined or preordained to rule “the barbarians.”
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