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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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The Korean War: A History

David Martin

A review If one were to read just one book about the fierce and very destructive war that took place on the Korean peninsula 1950-1953, this rather short (268 pages counting the endnotes) 2010 effort by Bruce Cumings, the retired chairman of the department of history at the University of Chicago, would not be the one that I would recommend.  To the contrary, it would be just about the last book I would recommend if the reader were to go into the subject knowing very little.  What it would be especially good for, though, would be reinforcing the leftist prejudices that the typical American college student takes away from his or her experience in higher education these days, particularly if…

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The Ballad of Patrick Knowlton

David Martin

Headline: Witness in [Vince] Foster death loses conspiracy appeal Washington Times, January 9, 2001, p. A7 Before he’d arrived at the end of the line A little publicity would have been fine, Shedding some light and putting some heat Upon all those justices’ honorable feet. Patrick Knowlton, The key to the Foster case. Patrick Knowlton, The man the press erased. But they wait till the court in their wisdom refuse To give him a hearing to bring us the news. It’s a story, alas, that is getting quite old; A citizen’s wronged; then he’s out in the cold, And once it’s too late, the public is told. Patrick Knowlton, The key to the Foster case. Patrick Knowlton, The man the…

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Leonard Rawls, Wilber Hardee, and Hardee’s Restaurants

David Martin

Creating a Chain-Restaurant Foundation Myth Who founded the Hardee’s restaurant food chain?  It should be a simple question to answer.  What does Wikipedia have to say about that on its “Hardee’s” page? The first thing one might notice on the right-hand summary panel, even if he didn’t know it already, is that Hardee’s is a gigantic restaurant chain and that it was one of the earliest fast-food hamburger chains.  The date of founding is given as June 23, 1960, while Ray Kroc hadn’t begun to turn McDonald’s into a nationally franchised chain until just five years before that, in 1955.  As of February 2016, Wikipedia tells us, Hardee’s had 5,812 locations.  In addition to the United States, it had restaurants…

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Richard Petty’s Hometown and the U.S. Military

David Martin

The famous Petty stock-car-racing family is quite representative of the very American sport, generally, in that its members come from the small Piedmont North Carolina town of Randleman.  From Wikipedia we learn that, as of 2020, Randleman had a population of 4,595, but as late as 1980, only 2,156 people lived there.  Doubtless, this more than doubling of the population reflects the fact that it is becoming a bedroom community for the larger cities of Greensboro and High Point to its immediate north.  Just over three quarters of its residents are non-Hispanic whites. Actually, although Randleman is usually listed as Richard Petty’s hometown, he and the Petty family are from the much smaller community of Level Cross, just to the…

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Illegal Israel

David Martin

More Money for Israel Fuel beneath a cauldron of hate At the heart of the Middle East mess; Protecting an ethnic-supremacist state, Defending its right to oppress. With the current wanton slaughter of Palestinians in which the state of Israel is currently engaged, it’s almost enough to give outlaws a bad name.  Even NBC News puts the current death toll in the war in the small area of Gaza at 30,000, and anyone can see from the nature of the destruction of housing complexes, hospitals, schools, churches, and refugee camps, that most of the victims are Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children. The fact of the matter, though, is that Israel is, indeed, an outlaw state and it has been…

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Deep Roots of the Current Gaza Slaughter

David Martin

In our previous article about the napalming of refugees by the Israelis during the Six Day War, we quoted extensively from the 1971 book by the Canadian A.C. Forrest, The unHoly Land.  That is also the primary source for this article. We must remember that the residents of the Gaza Strip are almost all the descendants of the people who were driven from their homes and their land in Palestine by the genocidal terror tactics of the colonizing, primarily European-origin Zionists in 1948 in the wake of the patently unfair UN partition of Palestine.  We have been sold on the notion that this awarding of a majority chunk of Palestine to these Jewish refugees was a sort of payback for…

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Genocidal Israelis Napalmed Civilian Refugees

David Martin

We should hardly be surprised that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has found that there is a basis to proceed in the case brought by the government of South Africa against Israel for genocide in its attack on Gaza.  Israel has a very bad record in matters such as this, most notably, in its ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948.  Less well known is its barbaric behavior during and immediately after the Six Day War of June 1967. At least those who are familiar with the event know that the Israelis shot up lifeboats and even dropped napalm on the deck of the USS Liberty during that war.  Less well known is its use of napalm…

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James Forrestal, Harry Truman, and Israel

David Martin

Alison Weir, the former journalist who heads up an organization aptly named, If Americans Knew, chose an equally appropriate title for her very popular 2014 book,  Against Our Better Judgment, The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel.   The fact of the matter is that the better judgment of the United States was, unlike today, well represented by its foreign policy leadership in 1948 when Palestine was most inequitably divided into Jewish and Arab parts by the United Nations, and the Zionist leaders of the Jewish part announced the creation of the brand-new state of Israel.  President Harry Truman made his decision endorsing the partition over the solid advice he received by the experts in his…

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The Zionist Mentality and Method

David Martin

We originally posted this review of a book published in 1992 on our web site on December 20, 2010.  With what appears to be a new push to expel the native Palestinians by force from Gaza, based upon a terrorist attack in Israel of questionable provenance, the book and the article have taken on a new relevance.   Whatever public pronouncements they might have made on the subject, the Zionist leaders, from the beginning right up to the present day, have had the intention of supplanting the non-Jewish resident population of Palestine, to be replaced with Jewish immigrants.  In deliberations among themselves there has been little dissent from this goal; the differences have arisen only in how the goal should be accomplished. …

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CIA Finally Pulling the Plug on Biden

David Martin

According to Fox News’s Jesse Watters, the signal to Traitor Joe Biden could hardly have been clearer: Make no mistake: Ignatius’ column is more than a suggestion- it’s a marching order. When American intelligence wants to put out a hit, they feed it to David Ignatius and today, Ignatius pulled the pin on Joe Biden’s 2024 run. He’s turning Washington’s whispers into a rallying cry. The American intelligence community has to tie up their loose ends. Even the media is falling in line: admitting the Democratic party is a dishonest monolith. A mob that can’t function when it’s fractured. The Biden-Kamala ticket is being cancelled in its entirety and the intelligence community is making a calculation. He’s talking about Ignatius’…

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Lawrence of Arabia and Yevgeny Prigrozhin

David Martin

Most people find it quite easy to believe that the airplane crash that killed Yevgeny Prigrozhin, the leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, who had led a mutiny against the Russian government, was no simple accident.  In fact, word has leaked from U.S. intelligence that an intentional explosion brought the airplane down and that President Vladimir Putin was behind it. The CIA would have some familiarity with such methods.  The contrived “accident” is right there in their assassination manual as an expedient form of secret assassination, allowing the perpetrator to deny responsibility for something deemed not to be a murder at all and attracting little attention.   An airplane crash is not on their list of contrived accidents, but it takes…

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Propaganda Press

David Martin

To the tune of “Rock N Roll Train” Keyboard warriors Big time liars Selling us a fantasy Loaded up with treachery Throw it out, pitch it Believable they’re not Yes, they’re adding to our rot Shout it out, “Screw it” Strike while irons are hot We’re tired of fantasy Seeing through treachery Propaganda press (Serving us a poison brew) Propaganda press (Serving us a poison brew) Propaganda press (Serving us a poison brew) Propaganda press (Serving us a poison brew) One hard pounded drum La créme de la scum No shame in their perfidy Stooges for the Agency Shake ‘em, drop ‘em Believable they’re not We ought to make it for them hot See the light, tune ‘em out Come…

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About those White House Surveillance Cameras

David Martin

We’re hearing a lot these days about all those surveillance cameras at the White House after the discovery of that small bag of cocaine and the 11-day “investigation” to determine who left it there that came up empty.  Here is Miranda Devine in her skeptical July 16 article in the New York Post: Even more astonishing [than the supposed absence of fingerprints on the plastic bag] is that, in a complex bristling with security cameras, the Secret Service said no surveillance video footage exists because the baggie was located in a “blind spot.” But where, on the day of his death, July 20, 1993, were all those security cameras in the early afternoon when Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W.…

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The Most Under-Reported Big News Story

David Martin

It’s definitely Tara Reade’s defection.  One has to be a real news hound even to know that Joe Biden’s accuser has taken refuge in Russia. This looks like a very rational decision on Reade’s part to me.  The very light reporting given to her allegations all along was a very bad sign for her, suggesting that she would never get any protection from our nation’s molders of public opinion.  One could imagine reading about her unfortunate “suicide” almost any day.  Had Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the “DC Madam,” demonstrated Reade’s prudence, she would, in all likelihood, be alive and well today. While on the subject of underreported defections to Russia, we should not forget about John Mark Dougan, who used to have a Wikipedia page.…

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