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Confessions of a Murdering Sovereign American Hero

David Martin

I was going through some old files looking for something else, when I stumbled across the touching, powerful statement that bears the title we see here.  It comes from a newsletter of Sheila M. Reynolds, a name I don’t recognize.  I do recognize the name of the author of the “Confessions,” Brian Mahoney.  My recollection is that Mahoney got in touch with me after hearing me recite political poetry on the Jaz McKay radio show from the 50,000-watt station in Cleveland WWWE.  Mahoney was apparently listening on his AM radio from his cell in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.   For his protection, I never identified him by name, but my recollection is that it was he who called my attention to…

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U.S. Ratchets Up Censorship

David Martin

Welcome to the Amazon aquarium, Where you can swim without care. If you only go where you’re supposed to, You won’t even know that you’re there. But thanks to my contrariness, An upsetting thing came to pass, Determined to showcase the truth, I discovered the glass. Here are a couple of customer book reviews of interest that are currently on the Amazon.com web site:  He really cares a great deal about giving all of the various points of view… Having arrived at this subject matter by way of a recommendation of DC Dave (David Martin), I was a newcomer to the writing of the author Mike Campbell. I believe that Mr. Campbell is one of the most talented and passionate…

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Mr. Robinson

David Martin

See Buelahman’s video. What’s up with you, Mr. Robinson? You picked a strange time to compose a billet doux. Oo, oo, oo. It’s very odd, Mr. Robinson, Just when anyone with sense would be lying low. They say your own words convict you of the crime. What luck for them when it seems they have so little else! They’re out to nail a patsy every time. This time they say the patsy nailed himself. What’s up with you, Mr. Robinson? You picked a strange time to compose a billet doux. Oo, oo, oo. It’s very odd, Mr. Robinson, Just when anyone with sense would be lying low. You pulled off a long-range shot without a gun, And where is the…

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Arguably the Most Important Historical Book of the Century

David Martin

Amazon customer review of The Assassination of James Forrestal on September 8, 2025 This book is the seminal work on James Forrestal’s death, and in many ways his life and plans after his government service. Martin obtained the crucial “Willcutts Report” from the Navy, which confirmed long-hidden facts about Forrestal’s death, most importantly that the verdict of suicide was never actually medically or legally established, that there was broken glass in Forrestal’s room suggesting a physical struggle, and that the Greek prose transcription supposedly triggering Forrestal’s suicide was not written in his own handwriting. Martin also presents the remarkable finding that Forrestal’s driver and Bethesda hospital employees were forced to transfer out of Washington by the Navy immediately following Forrestal’s death,…

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What Thomas Merton’s Authorized Biographer Revealed and What He Concealed

David Martin

Thomas Merton died suddenly in Thailand in 1968.  His biography, authorized by, and with the cooperation of, Merton’s home abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, was published in 1984.    At that point, essentially all that the public knew—or thought they knew—about Merton’s death was what John Wheeler, the Associated Press reporter based in Bangkok, had written in his wire service report the day after the death, and what Brother Patrick Hart of the Gethsemani Abbey had written in 1973 in the postscript to The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton.   Wheeler, citing anonymous “Catholic sources” had reported that Merton had been electrocuted by a faulty electric fan, with no evidentiary support.  In fact, he stated that the death was in Bangkok and…

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U.S. Military Insanity, Eighth Army Style

David Martin

The editors at Covert Action magazine really outdid themselves when they found an old photograph online as the lead illustration for my article, “A Condensation of Military Incompetence.”  Although I’m sure I never saw it at the time, the sign shown in the photograph was one welcoming people to the “ASCOM AREA COMMAND” (of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea), where I was stationed. Everything about the worn sign is curious.  It’s beside a public Korean road, but it’s written in English.  Its almost exclusive audience, therefore, would be American.  And the only Americans in that vicinity were members of the U.S. Army, restricting the audience further.  None of them had their private vehicles there at the time, so the…

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The Vince Foster-Russia Collusion Hoax Connection

David Martin

In a word, the connection, which would seem to be an odd one, can be found in the major publicity role played by Deep State operative Michael Isikoff in the cover-up of the murder of Bill Clinton’s deputy White House counsel, Vincent W. Foster, Jr. and in the outrageous hoax that Donald Trump was elected President in 2016 with the knowing assistance of the Russian government.  Let us start with the scandal that is currently in the news.  Mark Vargas of the Illinois Review sums up Isikoff’s initial and his continuing propagation of the collusion hoax with his opening two paragraphs in which he characterizes the man as nothing but an “FBI mouthpiece.” The narrative that the Donald Trump campaign…

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The Jeffrey Epstein-Vince Foster Connection?

David Martin

[Kenneth] Starr was also [Alexander] Acosta’s mentor at the Washington office of Kirkland & Ellis, a large law firm where Acosta worked as a newly minted lawyer in the 1990s. A former prosecutor suggested [Jeffrey] Epstein’s addition of Starr to his defense team was key to Acosta’s decision to putting the kibosh on the federal prosecution. “Acosta is pretending the failure to prosecute was routine,” the former prosecutor told Newsweek, asking for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. “But that’s bullshit. What happened here was completely and totally out of the main. Prosecutors wanted badly to prosecute this guy because he was an unrepentant perpetrator and child molester who was not going to stop absent significant incarceration. That Acosta…

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RFO Newsmax Has Huge Stock Price Increase after IPO

David Martin

The “IPO” abbreviation here is the familiar one, “initial public offering,” referring to the first sale of stock to the public by a company.  “RFO” is one of our own coinage, meaning “rival fake opposition.”  Newsmax made its stock available to the public for the first time just last Friday, and it has taken off like a rocket. When it comes to fake opposition to the long-dominant liberal mainstream media, it might be something of an exaggeration at this point to call Newsmax a rival to the big one, which is Fox News.  I know that I find Newsmax quite boring and hard to watch compared to Fox, and the numbers at Adweek, though a bit difficult to decipher, tell…

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Raymond Aron on Leftists

David Martin

Raymond Aron in The Opium of the Intellectuals: An honest and intelligent person can never become a leftist. An honest leftist is bad-headed, and a smart leftist is dishonest. If you don’t know the contradictory essence of socialism, you’re stupid, and if you know and follow it, you’re a liar.             Null Set II Honest, intelligent, and a leftist, You know what’s occurred to me? Such is the nature of socialism, It’s impossible to be all three. This poem is my update of “Null Set,” which I posted in June of 1998:                 Null Set Decent, intelligent, and a journalist, You know what’s occurred to me? In what…

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Checking Microsoft Copilot on Thomas Merton’s Death

David Martin

Here is how Wikipedia describes Microsoft Copilot in its opening paragraph: Microsoft Copilot is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Microsoft. Based on the GPT-4 series of large language models, it was launched in 2023 as Microsoft’s primary replacement for the discontinued Cortana. I had never even heard of Cortana, so after an email correspondent had sent me a snippet of his experience using Copilot to inquire about the May 22, 1949, death of Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, I decided to give it a spin on another death mystery that I happen to know a thing or two about, that of the famous Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, who, according to popular lore, died of accidental electrocution by a…

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