Webster Tarpley

Tarpley was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1946. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Languages from Princeton University in 1966, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, he became a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Turin, Italy. Later, he earned a Ph.D. in early modern history from the Catholic University of America.{{cite web|url=http://tarpley.net/biography/ |title=tarpley.net |publisher=tarpley.net |date=July 10, 2012 |access-date=July 15, 2012}}

In 1971, Tarpley was on the editorial board of The Campaigner, a National Caucus of Labor Committees' journal, according to its masthead.[http://www.wlym.com/archive/campaigner/Campaigners1968-76/Cam710100v04n01/ArchiveImages/Cam710100v04n01p001.png Masthead.] The Campaigner, vol. 4, no. 1 (Winter 1971), [http://www.wlym.com/archive/campaigner/Campaigners1968-76/Cam710100v04n01/ArchiveImages/Cam710100v04n01p001.png p. 1.] National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC). 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 in August that year because of a defect in his nominating petitions.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/09/nyregion/another-assemblyman-ruled-off-primary-ballot.html|first=Jesus |last=Rangel |title=Another Assemblyman Ruled Off Primary Ballot |work=The New York Times |date=August 9, 1986|access-date=March 28, 2021}}{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/116ffc2e15b0d85373d7cca6745a3c0f|title=LaRouche Candidates Barred from New York Democratic Primary|work=Associated Press|date=August 8, 1986|access-date=March 28, 2021}}

At one time, Tarpley was a contributing editor to the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), a LaRouche movement publication. In a January 1987 press conference attended only by a reporter from The Washington Post, he claimed the LaRouche movement's credit card indictments were part of a plot against LaRouche who he described as "the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination" in the following year's election. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Tarpley claimed, had used a surreptitious message in a speech to demand the silencing of LaRouche because of supposed information in LaRouche's possession on Soviet involvement in the assassination of Olof Palme, the former Swedish prime minister. In 1992, Tarpley co-authored with Anton Chaitkin George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, published by LaRouche's EIR magazine.

Since March 2006, Tarpley has hosted a weekly online talk show called World Crisis Radio,{{cite web|url=http://www.gcnlive.com/programs/worldCrisisRadio/ |title=World Crisis Radio on GCNLive |publisher=GCNlive.com |access-date=July 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626023736/http://www.gcnlive.com/programs/worldCrisisRadio/ |archive-date=June 26, 2012 }} broadcast by GCNLive.com.

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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.9/11 Synthetic Terror, Progressive Press, 5th edition, 2011, Military–industrial complex, passim. The common account about the events of 9/11 are in Tarpley's opinion in 2006 an "outrageous myth" and an "absurd fairy tale." The organisations involved in 9/11 apparently included Britain's MI6 as well as "government officials loyal to the invisible government."{{cite news|last=Jacobson|first=Marc|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/16464/|title=The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll|work=New York|location=New York City|date=March 27, 2006|access-date=December 20, 2018}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://tarpley.net/tarpley-on-syrian-addounia-tv/|title=Tarpley on Syrian Addounia TV|date=November 21, 2011|publisher=TARPLEY.net / Addounia TV|access-date=September 1, 2014}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.c-span.org/video/?305586-1/911-false-flags-black-ops-evening-debate-|title=9/11, False Flags, Black Ops Evening Debate _ Video|date=April 2, 2012|work=C-SPAN|access-date=September 1, 2014}} David Frum, who served as moderator between the two men, described Tarpley's "presentation as involuted as it was long-winded." During the event, Tarpley said that the Attack on Pearl Harbor was also a government conspiracy.{{cite news|last=Frum|first=David|author-link=David Frum|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/among-the-truthers-and-other-conspiracy-theoristsdavid-frum?ref=scroll|title=The Mad Mind: Among the Truthers (And Other Conspiracy Theorists)|work=The Daily Beast|date=April 3, 2012|access-date=December 20, 2018}}

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."{{cite news|url=http://www.nrk.no/227/artikler/konspirasjonsflom-etter-22.-juli-1.8183914|title=Konspirasjonsflom etter 22. juli – 22. juli 2011 – Terroren som rammet Norge|date=June 6, 2012|publisher=NRK|language=No|access-date=September 1, 2014}}

Tarpley has said Edward Snowden is probably a triple agent ultimately being an agent for the CIA with the aim of weakening President Barack Obama and pushing him into intervening in Syria.{{cite news|last=Seitz-Wald|first=Alex|url=https://www.salon.com/2013/06/19/here_come_the_edward_snowden_truthers/|title=Here come the Edward Snowden truthers|work=Salon|date=June 19, 2013|access-date=December 20, 2018}}

On January 21, 2015, Tarpley was interviewed by Guns and Butter's Bonnie Faulkner about "geopolitical terrorism and the destabilization of governments and how others like Russia and Belarus are responding".[https://soundcloud.com/guns-and-butter-1/1600-gunsbutter317-20150119-from-audioport The World Rebels Against Wall Street Rule], soundcloud.com. Retrieved on 16 December 2018.[http://gunsandbutter.org/ten-topicsten-shows.htm Ten Topics/Ten Shows] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216032031/http://gunsandbutter.org/ten-topicsten-shows.htm |date=December 16, 2018}}, gunsandbutter.org. Retrieved on 16 December 2018.

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. Tarpley has also given lectures what he terms the "Versailles thesis", which claims that the British government attempted to create a new "world order" at the Treaty of Versailles.{{cite web|url=http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/versaill.htm |title=The Versailles Thesis – Roots of WWI |publisher=Members.tripod.com |access-date=July 15, 2012}}

In February 2017, he agreed to settle a libel suit brought by U.S. First Lady Melania Trump for publishing a "false and defamatory" report In August 2016 alleging that the First Lady had been a "high-end escort" prior to meeting President Donald Trump.{{cite news |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/melania-trump-libel-suit-blogger-234263 |title=Melania Trump wins round in libel suit over blogger's 'escort' claims |newspaper=Politico |publisher=politico.com |access-date=January 27, 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blogger-forced-to-pay-substantial-sum-to-melania-trump-in-defamation-lawsuit|publisher=Fox News|title=Blogger forced to pay 'substantial sum' to Melania Trump in defamation lawsuit|date=February 7, 2017|access-date=February 7, 2017}} Terms of the settlement included providing a public apology in writing and paying a "substantial sum".{{cite news|last=Morse|first=Dan|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/melania-trump-reaches-settlement-in-libel-lawsuit-against-maryland-blogger/2017/02/07/3b8ecd86-ed3e-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html |title=Melania Trump reaches settlement in libel lawsuit against Maryland blogger |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 7, 2017|access-date=December 20, 2018}}

Articles

• [https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n16-19940415/eirv21n16-19940415_006-palmerstons_london_during_the_18.pdf "Palmerston's London During the 1850s: A Tour of the Human, Multicultural Zoo."] Executive Intelligence Review, vol. 21, no. 16 (Apr. 15, 1994). [https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n16-19940415/eirv21n16-19940415.php Full issue.]

Books

• Chi ha ucciso Aldo Moro? [Who Killed Aldo Moro?] Study commissioned by the Italian Parliamentary Giuseppe Zamberletti (DC) and published in Rome, 1978. It sheds light on the affiliation between the Red Brigades and the neofascist P2 lodge and the role of the Italian intelligence services in the Operation Gladio/Anglo-American secret services.
• [https://archive.org/download/GeorgeBush--TheUnauthorizedBiographyWebsterG.TarpleyAntonChaitkin/George%20Bush%E2%80%94The%20Unauthorized%20Biography%2C%20Webster%20G.%20Tarpley%20%26%20Anton%20Chaitkin.pdf George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography], with Anton Chaitkin (1992); Reprinted (2004). {{ISBN|0930852923}}.
• [http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/ Against Oligarchy: Essays and Speeches, 1970-1996] (1996).
• Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide through the Worst Financial Crisis in Human History (1999); updated (2009). {{ISBN|1615776001|978-0930852955}}.
• 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA – Myth of the 21st Century. Foreword by Thierry Meyssan (2005). {{ISBN|0930852311}}; 5th ed.: (Nov. 2011). {{ISBN|1615771115}}.
• Française: La Terreur Fabriquée, Made in USA: 11 Septembre, le mythe du XXIe siècle (Sep. 2006). {{ISBN|2952557144}}.
• Italiano: La Fabbrica del Terrore (Sep. 2007). {{ISBN|978-8887307566}}.
• Español: 11-S, El Falso Terrorismo (Jan. 2008). {{ISBN|0930852982}}.
• [https://archive.org/download/WebsterGriffinTarpleyObama.ThePostmodernCoup2008/Webster%20Griffin%20Tarpley%20-%20Obama.%20The%20Postmodern%20Coup%20-%202008.pdf Obama & The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate] (Apr. 2008). {{ISBN|0930852885}}.
• German: Barack Obama: Wie ein US-Präsident gemacht wird (Aug. 2008). {{ISBN|978-3938516744}}.
• Japanese: Obama: Dangerous Geometry (Nov. 2008). {{ISBN|4880862398}}.
• Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography (Aug. 2008). {{ISBN|0930852818}}.
• Japanese: (Mar. 2009).
• Just Too Weird: Bishop Romney and the Mormon Takeover of America: Polygamy, Theocracy, and Subversion (Oct. 2012). {{ISBN|1615777245}}.

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• {{official website|http://tarpley.net}}
• [https://larouchepub.com/tv/tlc_biographies.html ”Biographies of Some People Who Have Appeared on The LaRouche Connection: Webster Tarpley“]. 2002. larouchepub.com.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090830083903/http://www.gcnlive.com/programs/worldCrisisRadio/ Genesis Communications Network: World Crisis Radio] (Tarpley's radio show)
• [https://www.youtube.com/user/STOPtheBARACKalypse Webster Tarpley Radio] on YouTube
• [https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Webster%20Tarpley%29 Works by Webster Tarpley] at Internet Archive.

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