On this episode of The Preservation of the Human Race, we are joined by environmental activist Ajay Singh to discuss the recent victory for Monsanto, the assassination of MLK, and the latest pushback on the release of the Nixon White House papers. We also talk about the Warren Commission, and what it means for the future of environmental justice and public trust in our government. Join us as we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and remember the anniversary of his assassination on this day in 1968. Thank you to Ajay for taking the time to take the time out of his busy life to join us on this special day and remember MLK s life and the impact he had on so many lives. We are so grateful to have Ajay as a guest on the show and we look forward to working with him again in the future to fight for environmental justice, public trust, and human rights. Thank you for listening and supporting the show! May you live in peace, brother and sister, and may God bless you! -Isaac and May you rest in peace. -Ajay Singh -The Preservation of The Human Race (AJAY) is a proud member of the Waterkeeper Alliance and the Children s Health Defense Project a group dedicated to protecting our environment and our children's right to a safe, healthy, and fair access to clean drinking water, food, and access to our bodies and our bodies, and their bodies, homes, homes and schools, schools and playgrounds, and our health care, and care for our children, and medical care, everywhere we can do what we need to do the best we can, and we should do the most that we can and we do. . We are here to honor MLK Day, and to remember his memory and remember him in honor and remember his life and respect and respect, not only his legacy, we will always remember him for all that he deserves to be heard and celebrate him. , and we will never forget him for that. ...and we are so much more. (Thank you, Mr. MLK. Ajay) - Thank you, Ajay, for being a voice for the voiceless and a voice that speaks for all of us, thank you for all we can have a voice we can use to speak up for us, and that we have a chance to speak out about it.
00:00:09.000First, we'd just like to talk about, give a quick background of some of your environmental work and your activism that you've done, and then kind of especially touch on, you know, the big win for Monsanto and what that means for other cases going forward.
00:00:24.000I've been doing environmental litigation Since 1985, and I was the founder of the Waterkeeper Alliance.
00:00:35.000I first worked for the Hudson Riverkeeper, who was a coalition of commercial and recreational fishermen, who started suing polluters on Hudson.
00:00:44.000We used bounties from those lawsuits to construct a boat.
00:00:50.000and suing the polluter and I ended up sending hundreds polluters on Hudson Hudson is a now a model for ecosystem restoration so we force polluters we so it's super over 500 polluters on the river or we force them to spend five and a half billion dollars to Today, the Hudson has the richest waterway in the North Atlantic.
00:01:15.000It produces more biomass per gallon, more pounds of fish per acre than any other waterway in the Atlantic Ocean or the equator.
00:01:23.000The miraculous resurrection of the Hudson inspired the creation out of 350 other water keepers in 46 countries.
00:01:39.000They patrol their waterways and we sue the polluters.
00:01:42.000So I ran that litigation and ran that group.
00:01:45.000It became the biggest water protection group in the world.
00:01:49.000Around 2017, I founded the predecessor to Children's Health Defense.
00:01:55.000I also have been doing for over a decade Multi-district and class action litigation against pharmaceutical companies and against big polluters.
00:02:05.000So I did the DuPont case that is now the subject of the Mark Ruffalo film, Dark Waters, if you've seen that.
00:02:12.000I was on the trial team in the Monsanto case.
00:02:16.000Where we won the three Monsanto cases.
00:02:19.000The first one, we won $289 million from Roundup.
00:03:10.000We focus on trying to address the causes of the current pandemic of chronic disease in America's children.
00:03:20.0006% of our children being affected by chronic disease in the early 1960s to 54% today.
00:03:27.000I would like to say also rest in peace to your father and to your uncle.
00:03:33.000Today is the anniversary of his assassination so I really appreciate you taking out the time on this special day to honor I really appreciate your time.
00:03:47.000I was gonna say while we're talking about pushing back paperwork it seems like maybe a good time to talk about the latest pushback on the assassination papers.
00:03:57.000And if you have any idea as to, you know, I mean, I assume it's along the same lines of suit, but what they're hiding and, you know, just any details you have on that and is it some game they're going to keep playing with us?
00:04:11.000There is a lot of speculation as to what those papers say, but clearly it's very, very strange because, you know, Donald Trump, one of his campaign promises was that he was going to release it.
00:04:28.000Years ago, or eight years ago, the last of the papers.
00:04:31.000And Trump promised him during his campaign that he was going to release them no matter what.
00:04:38.000And then when he got in there, he changed his mind.
00:04:41.000And you have to say, how could that have happened?
00:04:43.000Because Trump, you know, no matter what you feel about Trump, he definitely was a guy who was willing to break things.
00:04:51.000And he hated the CIA. So, you know, what is it that they said to him That made him Okay, I'm going to keep these things in the lockbox.
00:05:02.000And then Biden said the same thing, promised during his presidency.
00:05:06.000Biden's a long-term friend of my family's, but, you know, somebody...
00:05:11.000All I can say is clearly this is about protecting institutions and not, you know, protecting individuals.
00:05:20.000Because most of the individuals who are involved in the assassination and the cover-up All the Warren Commission stuff are now long gone.
00:05:32.000So if I can dig a little deeper, if you have any insight on the situation, the assassinations around your father, your uncle, as well as being related, as well as potentially MLK, if there's any connection between a couple of them or all three of them?
00:05:48.000I do not know that much about Martin Luther King's assassination, but I... You know, other people have said that the intelligence agencies were also involved in that.
00:05:59.000I don't think there's any doubt that the intelligence agency, that the CIA in particular, and particularly the group that was involved in the Castro, you know, what they call the Miami Station, people like David Adley Phillips, William Harvey, and the Cuban group, That was from Alpha 66, and some of the other Cuban groups were clearly involved in my uncle's assassination.
00:06:25.000And, you know, I don't think it's no longer controversial that Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA asset.
00:06:34.000He was recruited in, I think, 1957 by James Jesus Angleton, who was the head of counterintelligence.
00:06:42.000You know, he was at that time a radar operator at the Adatsui Air Force Base in Japan, which was the CIA base where the U-2 flights flew out of.
00:06:56.000And when the U-2 was shot down and Gary Francis Powers was captured by the Russians, which was a huge embarrassment to our country, the CIA had said they can't be shot down.
00:07:08.000The Russians don't even know they're flying because they're so high.
00:07:12.000And it was clear at that point that they had a mole in Langley.
00:07:16.000And they had known this for some time, and that mole's existence is now well-documented, although nobody has ever disclosed who it was.
00:07:25.000And Angleton sent Oswald to Moscow as what they called a dangle.
00:07:32.000They put a trigger on his file in Langley, and then he went and defected to, he made a very, very dramatic defection to Moscow and told them he was going to, publicly, that he was going to tell the KGB everything about the U-2.
00:07:49.000And James Jesus Angleton believed that Moscow, that the KGB and the GRU would be really frightened and puzzled about who Oswald was and whether or not he was real.
00:08:01.000And they would ask their asset at Langley, their mole, to look at his files.
00:08:08.000And Angleton had put a trigger system on his file so that he would catch anybody who looked at it.
00:08:14.000And when that project failed, nobody ever asked for Oswald's file.
00:08:18.000Oswald just came back to the United States.
00:08:20.000He was never debriefed by the CIA. He was given an airplane ticket and his passport, which he had disavowed back during a 20-minute meeting at the State Department.
00:08:30.000And You know, then he went to Dallas and he was ushered around by CIA assets throughout Dallas.
00:08:39.000And that's a very well-documented story.
00:08:42.000And, you know, we now have CIA cables talking about Oswald.
00:08:48.000And, you know, then it gets even more arcane and Byzantine after that.
00:09:00.000Do you think that J. Edgar Hoover was involved?
00:09:03.000In my view, I don't think that J. Edgar Hoover was involved.
00:09:09.000I know J. Edgar Hoover was involved in the cover-up, because Oswald was also working for the FBI, and he was an embarrassment.
00:09:18.000And Hoover fired a bunch of his agents who were aware of that.
00:09:23.000So Hoover's participation in the cover-up is also pretty well documented today.
00:09:28.000I think Hoover hated my uncle, and he definitely hated my father even worse.
00:09:36.000But I don't know any convincing evidence that he was involved in the murder at all.
00:09:41.000I think the people who were involved in my uncle's murder were people who were associated with the Miami station, which were The CIA agents themselves, you know, high officers, William Harvey, David Adley Phillips, and a number of others, they were the same group who participated in the 1953 coup in Guatemala and in the Bay of Pigs, and they all convened at the Miami station to murder Castro, and they were murderers.
00:10:12.000They had recruited Johnny Roselli and Santos Traficante and Carlos Marcello all into this cabal to murder Castro and to reclaim the mobs and mafia of Havana Casinos.
00:10:28.000And so they had recruited hitmen from the Mafia who are now working as CIA assets.
00:10:35.000And all of those characters are, you know, at some level or not, their involvement has been documented.
00:10:43.000People who want to read a really, probably, I think one of the best books about my uncle's assassination is Jim Douglas' book, The Unspeakable.
00:10:53.000There's many, many good books about it.
00:10:55.000That book is good because what happened is the Warren Commission came out and established the orthodoxy.
00:11:02.000And then the Congress investigated in 73 and said, no, the Warren Commission was wrong.
00:11:13.000But over the years, hundreds of thousands of documents have been released.
00:11:18.000But they come out in trickles, and some of them have extraordinary revelations in them and proofs of things.
00:11:24.000Like, you know, Oswald's involvement is now very well proven, but the major commissars of the orthodoxy, like the New York Times in particular, and the Washington Post, Which were Operation Mockingbird assets.
00:11:40.000And that's very well documented as well.
00:11:42.000They have been guardians of the orthodoxy that it was a single killer.
00:11:47.000So when these new documents come out, there's no news.
00:11:50.000But some of them have extraordinary significance.
00:11:55.000And what Douglass did is he's collected 60 years of documents and distilled them and put them All into one story and he's done it in a brilliant way and reading that book is like reading a spy novel.