PUNISHMENT PARK

This little-seen classic of early 70's paranoid political conspiracy cinema deserves to be seen by a much wider audience. You can now watch the entire mockumentary online, thanks to Youtube. Here it is. Watch along with yer old pal Jerky and leave some comments!

KONSPIRACY KLASSICS KORNER - THE YANKEE AND COWBOY WAR - PART ONE: THE CLANDESTINE ELITES

KONSPIRACY KLASSICS CORNER!

THE YANKEE AND COWBOY WAR

The Astonishing Link between the JFK Assassination and the deposing of Nixon 

Conspiracies from Dallas to Watergate and Beyond

by Carl Oglesby

A few years back, a friend loaned me his copy of Carl Oglesby's The Yankee and Cowboy War, and after reading it I was stunned that I had previously neither read it nor even heard about it. I found it both moving and profoundly impressive. In his masterful dissection of the mid-70's American political milieu, Oglesby gives us nothing less than an absolutely convincing operating model of the forces clashing behind the scenes in post-World War II America, as well as a detailed diagnosis of exactly where and why things went terribly wrong. He presents valuable ideas that have found their way into the works of later authors, most notably Sidney Blumenthal, whose 1986 best-seller The Rise of the Counter-Establishment reads almost like a sequel.

I believe The Yankee Cowboy War is essential reading for anyone searching for honest answers about the origins of our current condition. Unfortunately, the book is long out of print. I also understand that most of you reading this are busy people who don't have time to read every worthy book that there is to read. Therefore, I have decided to use this space to publish my "reading notes", taken during my second reading, so that interested parties can get the gist of the book's main theses, the numerous topics it covers, as well as the individuals and events discussed in it.

I will be posting these reading notes periodically over the next few days. Obviously, this is a poor substitute for reading the book, itself, but it's a decent primer, and for the researcher in a hurry, it should do in a pinch. Watch for further installments, coming soon!

PART ONE: THE CLANDESTINE ELITES

· Watergate and the JFK assassination were not isolated incidents, but linked parts of a secret war between two American Elites: the Yankees (Eastern Establishment) and the Cowboys (Sunbelt, New Money, Counter-Establishment).

· A hidden drama of coup and counter-coup, intrinsically linked conspiracies, inner oligarchic power sphere, invisible gov’t, above the law, beyond moral rule… a clandestine American state, embryonic police state.