Adeyinka Makinde
Adeyinka Makinde trained for the law as a barrister. He lectures in criminal law and public law at a university in London, UK, and has an academic research interest in intelligence & security matters. He is a contributor to a number of websites for which he has written essays and commentaries on international relations, politics and military history. He has served as a programme consultant and provided expert commentary for BBC World Service Radio, China Radio International and the Voice of Russia.
Items mentioned in / relevant to the interview
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TMR 097 : Dr. Daniele Ganser : NATO's Secret Armies - GLADIO & The Strategy of Tension
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Joe Biden speaking at Harvard. [Update: Video removed, so here's a CNN report on the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40NGN5mN7Nk)
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Wesley Clark on CNN (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFwGvk3k6WM)
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Kaduna Mafia (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaduna_Mafia)
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Rebuilding America's Defenses : Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century : A Report of The Project for the New American Century, PNAC (September 2000). [Update: The PNAC website has terminated. A copy of the report may be available via The Wayback Machine at Archive.org, such as here.]
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Wesley Clark interview with DemocracyNow! (2007) (https://www.democracynow.org/2007/3/2/gen_wesley_clark_weighs_presidential_bid)
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RAND, "Unfolding the Future of the Long War: Motivations, Prospects, and Implications for the U.S. Army", US DOD (2008) [Follow link on that page for the PDF]
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DIA 2012 document obtained by Judicial Watch (http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/pgs-287-293-291-jw-v-dod-and-state-14-812-2/)
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Mike Flynn on Al Jazeera with Mehdi Hasan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1oEoCRkLRI)
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Sykes-Picot Agreement (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement)
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Sidney Blumenthal email to Hillary Clinton (27 March 2011) [C0578240], "Lots of new intel; Libyan army possibly on verge of collapse" via https://foia.state.gov [Update: PDF no longer available at that website.]
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Sidney Blumenthal email to Hillary Clinton (2 April 2011) [C0578552], "France's client & Qaddafi's gold" via https://foia.state.gov [Update: PDF no longer available at that website.]
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Which Path to Persia? : Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran, The Brookings Institution, Analysis Paper (20 June 2009) (https://www.brookings.edu/research/which-path-to-persia-options-for-a-new-american-strategy-toward-iran/)
Essays
Books
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Michael J. Glennon, National Security and Double Government, Oxford University Press (October 8, 2014)
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Nafeez Ahmed, The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism, Olive Branch Press; 1st edition (June 21, 2005)
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Mark Curits, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tail; Revised ed. edition (June 2, 2015)
British Intelligence and its use of Islamists to overthrow secular Arab governments
John McCain, Libyan Rebels & Hakim Belhadj
Acknowledgements
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All audio excerpts are used in the spirit of Fair Use and solely for the purposes of criticism and commentary.
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Podcast theme music: Chillout Me by Antony Raijekov from Jazz U compilation (CC BY-NC 2.5)
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Slide show image: composite of "Love Bombs" and "Out of His Hat", each Copyright © Anthony Freda, all rights reserved, and used here with kind permission.
- TMR wishes to state that the fact that these creative materials appear in TMR productions should in no way be understood as implying that its creators endorse anything published by TMR.

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