well we wouldn't be alive if kennedy had not done what he did at the cuban missile crisis with khrushchev we were really at the edge of war this is they want to which the joint chiefs of staff wanted to go they wanted to invade cuba we didn't even know the situation in cuba how many bombs they had how many soviet troops were ready to fight the led by the commander of stalingrad was there it was a serious war we were facing in cuba it would have escalated into a major international conflict we had bombers ready to go off okinawa dropping nuclear weapons on china we had a whole war plan that eisenhower had devised was massive war calling for something like six hundred million casualties we were thinking ahead you have no idea what we faced and that's what kennedy's courage came at that moment when he said no to the hardliners as khrushchev said no to his hardliners and both men disappear within a year well i can't move on without talking about robert mcnamara joint chiefs of staff under kennedy who actually presented him with the operation northwoods document and it was rejected thankfully

had not done what he did at the cuban missile crisis with khrushchev we were really at the edge of war this is they want to which the joint chiefs of staff wanted to go they wanted to invade cuba we didn't even know the situation in cuba how many bombs they had how many soviet troops were ready to fight there led by the commander of stalingrad was there it was a serious war we were face you didn't you it would have escalated into a major international conflict we had bombers ready to go off okinawa dropping nuclear weapons on china we had a whole war plan that eisenhower had devised was massive war calling for something like six hundred million casualties we were thinking ahead you have no idea what we faced and that's what kennedy's courage came at that moment when he said no to the hardliners as khrushchev said no to his hardliners and both men disappear within a year well i can't move on without talking about robert mcnamara joint chiefs of staff under kennedy who actually presented him with the operation northwoods document and it was rejected thankfully i mean this is an amazing d

the berlin wall stem from that and khrushchev thought he could put nuclear-tipped missiles in cuba but after kennedy successfully negotiated the cuban missile crisis things made a turn for him, didn't they? i'm intrigued by the fact that you say in the fall of 1963 his marriage was better than ever. he and jackie seemed to be more in love, right? >> i think so. the secrets have all come out now that none of the american people knew in the 1960s. kennedy, the women. we know all their names from audrey hepburn to the 19-year-old intern who wrote that look. jackie knew about it. she knew who he was before she married him but she accepted it. there were rumors that they came close to divorce once early in the marriage but they stay together. i think one thing that brought them together in the fall of 1963 was the death of their newborn son patrick who lived less than two days. jackie and the president were devastated. something about that loss, she had already given birth to a stillborn daughter before the boy died. something about that loss did something to them i think. it rocked them cl

world or that his soviets he was actually do you know he was back channel communicating with nikita khrushchev and they were going to end the cold war by sixty five i never heard of that all read my book i'm going to read it after the fact though anything can come up with a conspiracy like obama's hated today against more death right where secret service guy told me they get more death threats for all bomb of than all presidents combined they deal with it every day so if he's killed you're going to have a conspiracy of who i really are i mean well it's so easy to come up with this yes yeah but it's but but when you come up with a patsy like oz wald larry he couldn't make the shots impossible i show in the book not only could i not do it we recreated it on my show and we didn't even have a moving target with that piece of junk weapon hears i could make them not only we cover carlos hathcock who is considered the greatest sniper of the united states marine corps the head instructor at the quantico marine sniper school they reset up the whole thing he couldn't do it and us will wait aas well when

take its currency down we're going to see khrushchev manipulation on a scale that we haven't seen since the seventy's of the thirty's and that's a completely different type of mortgage than most of us are used to gold during that time period gold is a currency and i would expect goal would go against most currencies all right john although i have to leave it there the book is called code red i've read it it's a must read as the title suggests it how to protect yourself in the coming current you are thank so much for being on that guy's report max thank you a lot of a student at i found out. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey to thank our guest john walton author of the new book could read if you like to get in touch tweet us a kaiser report and so next time i'll. try to get a lot of housing for homeless people but the government is not funding it and in a lot of the shelter today be having people brothers down the street because people begin to read didn't shelter to get involved right now ironically ironically i mean we're. con

take its currency down we're going to see see khrushchev manipulation on a scale that we haven't seen since the seventy's of the thirty's and that's a completely different type of mortgage than most of us are used to gold during that time period gold is a currency and i would expect goal would go against most currencies all right john although i have to leave it there the book is called code red i've read it it's a must read as the title suggests it how to protect yourself in the coming current you are thank so much for being on the guys report max thank you a lot and a student at all right fair enough. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey to thank our guest john malden author of the new book code red if you like the end times tweet us the kaiser report until next time. gentlemen i guess you'll only. see it even a few hundred a day come across believe. that we've got people coming in with criminals where you have people who knows where in the world this is the united states i'm very tough by the way you know sure i was worried t

take its currency down or we're going to see khrushchev manipulation on a scale that we haven't seen since the seventy's of the thirty's and that's a completely different mortgage than most of us are used to gold through that time period gold isn't currency and i would expect go against most currencies all right john although i have to leave it there the book is called code red i've read it it's a must read as the title suggests how to protect yourself and the coming current you are thank so much for being on the guy's report max thank you a lot of student i found out. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max geyser and stacey to thank our guest john malden author of the new book code red if you like the end times tweet us the kaiser report and so next time. i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough. to say where it's about story. if this guy like you would smear about time instead of working for the people most issues in the mainstream media are working for each other right right was due to. the dead rather. what's up however on i'm abby martin a

joined by 9 ah kucheva, the author of an upcoming book, the great grand granddaughter of nikita khrushchev. are most of these protestors in the western part of the country that is more attached to europe or is this a national movement? >> it is a national movement, it kiev was on the eastern part of the country, not the western part of the country. the russian part of ukraine so to speak. it is a national movement although of course the western part of the country is much more attuned to what's happening in the west and is much more willing to go with european union than eastern part. it is a national movement. >> more attention was paid to one who was a former heavy weight champion of the world. >> different walks of life. one was a former politician in the yanukovych government, right wing leader and another one is a heavy weight champion. holding this opposition movement together, and so i mean, yanukovych prosmse promises change. we don't know how much as your correspondent said. we have to wait until tomorrow because there is some willingness to at least do little steps, basically mak

but that changes with the stalin's death and khrushchev coming to power, and he sees the middle east as up for grabs as the cold war starts to extend into the third world, and the arabists -- at least the arguments within the cia, james angleton, known as the chief of counterintelligence, he also runs the israeli so-called account, which is growing espionage connection between the cia and massad as the american world is lost to arabs and there is competition for the u.s. alliance. so, i -- and your point about 1991, the end of the colored -- cold war, is well taken. i don't mean to argue for thing sinnance of geopolitical considerations as compared to this arabist impulse. ultimately it is the geopolitics, perhaps sort of wrongly analyzed by the likes of john foster dulles because he has a binary polar cold view of the world, and it's ultimately what wins out over the impulse. so its existence is interesting, and suggestive, of path not taken. it's worth studying that moment to find out why it wasn't. >> have here in my hand today's "washington post." i'll read the headline from page

his initial meetings with khrushchev were very, very tough i think he actually walked out of one meeting saying, you know, that's the hardest meeting never been at. he just dismantle me. so there is a sense of personal softness which, again, is somewhat ironic given this is that he was a war hero, incredibly disciplined, a tough person politically. but his early meetings with the soviets were not, you know, were not successful. they thought that he was weekend, but could, perhaps, pushed around. >> how would you say that president kennedy, say foreign policies, especially issues such as syria, such as, you know,s how would you say that president kennedy, say foreign policies, especially israel and palestine? >> yeah it's one of those questions that i think about a lot. the issues are so different. i do think that maybe the obama administration is perhaps indecisive and syria having sort of laid down new markers and not adhered to it. there might've been a sense that once you made a commitment you have to continue to honor it. it's so hard to really kind of extrapolate that. i think it wo

maybe not the articulation but the experience and the presence and the reputation to stand up to khrushchev and he had military superiority. i think that personality matters and i'm getting back to that. i think that the buildup of the german navy, the kaiser hankered after -- for the reasons that margaret has eloquently expressed. it was not intended as a real challenge to britain. it was intended as an add-on to military power or a great world power. the british who depended, the british army was expert but tiny relatively. they only have their navy. it provided them with a tax britannica. they police the seas for a month others german commercial. but any evidence of another continental power creating the ability to invade, to cross the channel and bring their army into unthinkable. that is why liberal government came in. they had all kinds of social plans, education, old age and so forth. they spend every pound on it. >> margaret every historians -- their own prison. railway timetables moving with troop movements of the question is the dreadnought. what is your prison for this crucial pe

maybe not the reticulation, that the experienced and the presence and reputation to stand up to khrushchev, and he had the military superiority. but i think that personality matters. i am getting back to that. i think going back to a german navy for the reasons that margaret has eloquently expressed was not intended as the real challenge to britain, that it was intended as an add-on to the military power and we are going to be a great world power and and the british army was expert but tiny relatively. they only had their navy. it gave them -- it provided them with a britannica and the police to the sea is for among others the german commercial trade. but any evidence of another power, continental power, building the ability, creating the devotee to even aid across the channel and bring their army into britain was unthinkable and that's why the government came in in 1906 and they have all kind of social plants, education, old age and so forth, they spend every town on battleships. >> any of the major events like this, a.j. salles it was a timetable that dealing with the movements so the qu

far as they were concerned and they actually said this in private, the new regime and people like khrushchev are actually worse and more dangerous because they could fool the world into thinking that they are not actually ready to destroy asked. the second huge miscalculation that the dulles brothers made is the completely misunderstood the third world nationalism of what today we would call below back. they never imagined that they would have such devastating effects years, decades, generations later. they never thought that by not holding the election in 1956 they were setting off a chain of events in which a million people including 50,000 americans would be killed or day would plunge into the decades of tyranny or send guatemalans into this river of blood in which to hundred thousand people were killed or that the condo what a defendant such hellish conflict. their idea is a we have in operation after a week it works if everybody down there will forget it and we will move on and we will never have any other effect with some of the quotes and the recordings indicate that while richard and

. >> and with khrushchev. >> that's right. a question for you. it seems to me that our top three leaders, the congress and the white house all have a disdain for the political process. these guys -- harry reid and obama all of them have that element but they don't seem to enjoy the political game. that process that you so much love, i loved as a student, as a student senator when i went to boston college. it i loved the process but these guys don't seem to love the process. they're such disdain. >> let me answer. the answer is, it has lost the people in the business to get things done. it has lost its joy. i think the stopgap is just going from week to week kicking down -- the can down the road never having a sense of achievement. most people want to achieve something in life. i don't know what you achieve in politics. just think about this. in my lifetime and a lot of our lifetimes the united states congress got together and it's something unbelievable. it passed the civil rights bill out of nowhere. it just did it and i don't know what it's don

, maybe not the articulation, but the experience and the presence and reputation to stand up to khrushchev, and he had military superiority. but i think that -- well, personality matters. i'm getting back to that. i think that the buildup of the german navy, which the kaiser hankered after for the reasons that market has eloquently expressed, was not intended as a real challenge to britain. it was intended as an add on to military power. we're going to be a great world power. and the british, who depended only -- the british army was expert, but tiny, relatively. they only had the navy. it gave them come it provided them with a pacs britannica. they police the seas for, among others, german commercial trade. but any evidence of another power building the building, grading the ability to invade, just cross the channel and bring the army into britain was unthinkable. and that's why -- liberal government came in in 1906. they had all kinds of social plans, education, old age and so forth. they spent every pound on battleships. >> market, every historian sees major events like this through the

his initial meetings with khrushchev were very, very tough i think he actually walked out of one meeting saying, you know, that's the hardest meeting never been at. he just dismantle me. so there is a sense of personal softness which, again, is somewhat ironic given this is that he was a war hero, incredibly disciplined, a tough person politically. but his early meetings with the soviets were not, you know, were not successful. they thought that he was weekend, but could, perhaps, pushed around. >> how would you say that president kennedy, say foreign policies, especially issues such as syria, such as, you know, is around palin palestine. >> one of the questions. i think about a lot. perhaps, and decisive. maybe in the sense of syria, having sort of lay down your markers and then not really adhered to it. so there might have been a sense that once you made a commitment you have to really continue to honor. it is so hard to really kind of extrapolate that. think it would be unfair to kennedy and to obama if i really were to say much more than that. >> between the way. >> world views. >> i