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Sheila Anthony Defends Her Changed Foster Story

2026-07-20 David Martin

Vince Foster’s older sister, Sheila Foster Anthony, has reacted with great indignation to Donald Trump’s suggestion that there was something “very fishy” about the circumstances surrounding the death and the “investigation” of the death of her brother, Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr. She has done so (May 27, 2016) in a prominently displayed article in The Washington Post (Wouldn’t you know?) Here is the nub of her testimony on the subject: Vince called me at my office in the Justice Department a few days before he died. H.e told me he was battling depression and knew he needed help. But he was worried that such an admission would adversely affect his top-level security clearance and prevent him…

Oliver Stone on the Japanese Surrender

2026-07-182026-07-18 David Martin

Not in this writer’s lifetime has a book challenging the central accepted tenets of U.S. history received so much publicity as Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick’s The Untold History of the United States, which was serialized in reduced form in ten weekly parts on the CBS cable subsidiary Showtime. Search the authors’ names and book title with Google and on YouTube and you will find that almost everyone on the left has either given them a good review, a softball interview, or both. In the uncritical interview category, they have enjoyed the attention of Democracy Now, RT, C-Span, PBS, and one that goes beyond favorable to fawning on The Young Turks. You can doubtless find more. This positive attention is…

Martial Machismo: At What Cost

2026-07-142026-07-14 David Martin

A good work of art, though it may be the product of one person’s experience, is timeless and universal. By that standard, the song “At What a Cost”* by Mark Lentz is, to my mind, a great work of art. In war, there are always the grand planners at the top, but the actual dirty business has to be carried out by other human beings at the bottom. The price paid by those at the bottom seldom weighs very much in the calculations of the grand planners at the top, and if there is folly in the plans, no one sees it better than those at the bottom. Listening to “At What a Cost” the first lines that come to…

Pollyanna on Vince Foster and our Presidents

2026-07-122026-07-12 David Martin

Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think. Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world’s not. – A. E. Housman For the same effect, on the other hand, you could read The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton by noted American historian, William E. Leuchtenburg. Leuchtenburg, as amply demonstrated by his latest book, is the very personification of what is wrong with the American history profession. Here is how his publisher, Oxford University Press, describes him: “The author is a renowned historian who, among other achievements, was elected president of all three major national historical associations and has served as a presidential election night analyst for NBC.” …

Letter to a Historian over Foster and the Clintons

2026-07-112026-07-12 David Martin

In my most recent article I take America’s professional historians to task one more time for the mainly propagandistic role they seem to be playing in interpreting what has gone on in the country. In that small verbal match I believe I supported my charge of intellectual laziness quite thoroughly against one very minor member of the profession. Noticing how he shrank away from the major issues that provide the underpinning for the case for skepticism about the current campaign against the Confederate battle flag, a stronger charge of intellectual cowardice might well be in order. And in that quality, I fear that he is representative of his entire profession. William Leuchtenburg, with more than a dozen books to his…

Letter to a Court Historian about James Forrestal’s Death

2026-07-012026-07-01 David Martin

H.L. Mencken aptly called them “the timorous eunuchs who posture as American historians.” That was in 1920, but little has changed. It might be a freshly minted Ph.D. from TCU, teaching at a backwater university in Texas like Matthew A. McNiece, or the man often described as the foremost historian of the Cold War, Yale history professor John Lewis Gaddis, but the fake authoritativeness and the real pusillanimity are at least as evident today as they were in Mencken’s day. That is certainly the case when it comes to their writing about the very important subject of the violent death of the U.S. government’s leading opponent of the creation of the state of Israel, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Now…

Key False Document in the Thomas Merton Death Case

2026-06-292026-06-29 David Martin

In the paper that we presented to the Thomas Merton Symposium in Rome, “What We Know about Thomas Merton’s Death,” we noted that on the subject of Merton’s death, Michael Mott’s authorized biography, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton has been treated as the ultimate authority, that is, up until we published The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation in March of 2018. Unfortunately, the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS), which has 45 U.S. chapters, conducts four-day conferences biennially, and publishes the quarterly Merton Seasonal and the Merton Annual jointly with the Thomas Merton Center of Bellarmine University, in a most benighted fashion, still seems to be treating Mott’s flawed and dishonest work as definitive. In one vital part of…

McCarthy Target Touted Soviet Agent’s Book in NY Times

2026-06-25 David Martin

In July of 1947, General Albert C. Wedemeyer was chosen by the Truman administration to travel to China to assess the situation in that country and in Korea. Wedemeyer completed his assignment in two and a half months and submitted his report in September. As described by John J. McLaughlin in his forthcoming book: The first page of the report is a broad indictment of Communism generally which then focuses on how China’s efforts at development have been sabotaged and “…jeopardized…by forces as sinister as those that operated in Europe and Asia leading to World War II. The pattern is familiar—employment of subversive agents; infiltration tactics; incitement of disorder and chaos [designed] to undermine popular confidence in government and leaders…” He directly implicates…

American Betrayal

2026-06-232026-06-24 David Martin

A Review “How cynical!” was my thought when I saw that Diana West, on the page preceding the introduction of her second book, had quoted the words of Jesus Christ. It’s from the third chapter of the Gospel of John, verses 20 and 21 on the Godliness of openness and truth as opposed to the darkness and deception necessary for evil to thrive. West is Yale educated, grew up in Hollywood, and is a major promoter of the interests of Israel. With American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character I was expecting a replay of her very shallow, propagandistic The Death of the Grown-Up. My opinion began to change quite rapidly when, in her introduction, I heard for…

Lying about Bombing

2026-06-15 David Martin

On Monday, February 14, a very powerful bomb in Beirut killed former Lebanese prime minister, Rafiq Hariri and 13 other people. No evidence has been produced as to who might have placed the bomb. That did not stop the major American news media from pointing the finger of suspicion at the government of Bashar Assad of Syria, even as they were reporting the news of the tragedy, and the United States government has withdrawn its ambassador from Syria in “retaliation,” as if Bush and company were certain that Syria was to blame. On Wednesday, February 16, 2005, the “liberal opposition” newspaper, The Washington Post, surged to the front of the pack of hounds baying for strong measures against Syria with…

The Pearl Harbor Betrayal and James Forrestal’s Death

2026-06-132026-06-13 David Martin

As told by Walter Trohan. If there were a major, influential news organ in the United States today that espoused the old fashioned America-first, anti-interventionist, anti-globalist, antiwar, limited-government conservatism of Rep. Ron Paul, it would look a lot like Colonel Robert McCormick’s Chicago Tribuneof the early to mid-20th century. The closest thing we have to that now is on the Internet with web sites like LewRockwell.com and Antiwar.com, and, of course, Ron Unz. And if that news organ had a prominent, enterprising White House correspondent with contacts all over official Washington who was not afraid to challenge the President or anyone else, he or she would be a lot like Walter Trohan. Sarah McClendon was similar, but she had a…

Seeds of Permanent Conflict in Palestine

2026-06-112026-06-11 David Martin

Wars themselves are bad enough, with all the death and misery that they visit upon those who fight them and get caught up in them. The consequences of the wars, though, can be as bad or worse. Had Russia not participated in World War I, it’s a virtual certainty that the Communists would not have taken over that country. That war and the peace arrangement that followed it were primarily responsible for the even larger World War II. Had there been no World War II, the Communists would have had a very small chance of coming to power in the most populous country on earth, China. A less well-known consequence of World War I is that it planted the seed…

What Did Anne Frank Have Against Americans?

2026-06-092026-06-09 David Martin

The book I had been reading was so interesting that I had finished it ahead of schedule, and the book I had ordered had not yet arrived. I began searching our empty nest for something to tide me over. What caught my eye in one of my sons’ vacated bedroom was the small volume, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Later I discovered that it had been assigned reading in the eighth grade, and the class was even shown the movie based on the book. Perfect. It’s relatively short, I had never read even one page of it, and here was the chance for me to catch up with the millions of other people who have read it. …

Remember the Liberty!

2026-06-082026-06-08 David Martin

Most Americans have never heard of the Israeli, Ephraim “Eppie” Evron. A half century ago, in May of 1967, he was deputy chief of mission in the Israeli embassy in Washington and in that ostensible capacity had a meeting with President Lyndon Johnson in the Oval Office on May 26. From all indications, as we learn from Phillip Nelson in Remember the Liberty!: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas, Evron was likely the real power in the embassy as the top Mossad official there. An even more interesting thing about Evron was that he was “one of the main conspirators” in the infamous Lavon Affair, a failed plot in 1954 by Israel to bomb U.S. and British facilities…

Devin Nunes and the USS Liberty

2026-06-072026-06-08 David Martin

“Wow, a gutsy congressman not afraid to let the truth hang out on this delicate issue.” Yes, the subject of the quote is Devin Gerald Nunes, the former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California’s 22nd congressional district in the Central Valley, but the act of courage for which he is being praised is not the creation of the now-famous four-page memorandum concerning the nefarious actions of the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice under President Barack Obama. Rather, the quote is from dissident retired CIA analyst, Ray McGovern in reference to the remarks that Nunes made as he pinned a Silver Star on long-retired Navy Petty Officer Terry Halbardier on May 27, 2009: “The government…

The American (Establishment) Catholic on Forrestal’s Death

2026-06-06 David Martin

On his Wikipedia page under “Religion” in the box on the upper right, we find “Catholic” for America’s first secretary of defense, James Forrestal. Indeed, culturally at least, Forrestal would seem to be the epitome of an Irish-American Roman Catholic. His father was an immigrant from Ireland and his mother had aspirations for young James to become a priest. But, according to biographers Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley, Forrestal had broken with his Catholic faith at the time that he left Princeton University, although they interpret his thwarted request to have Monsignor Maurice Sheehey of Catholic University come visit him when he was confined to Bethesda Naval Hospital before going out a 16th floor window of the main tower there…

The Forrestal Murder and the News Media

2026-06-032026-06-03 David Martin

Fool’s Paradise Welcome to the American aquarium Where life can be lived without care. If you swim only where you’re supposed to, You won’t even know that you’re there. But thanks to my curiosity An upsetting thing came to pass: I followed the trail of a mystery And I discovered the glass. I wrote those lines in 1998. At that point I knew virtually nothing about James V. Forrestal, whom President Harry Truman had appointed as America’s first Secretary of Defense in 1947 after the creation of the Department of Defense by the National Security Act of the same year. I had recently read David McCullough’s biography entitled simply Truman, which has a short section on Forrestal’s decline and “suicide,”…

A Vietnam Grunt’s “Guardian Angel”

2026-05-23 David Martin

The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread, And out we troop to see: A single redcoat turns his head, He turns and looks at me. My man, from sky to sky’s so far, We never crossed before; Such leagues apart the world’s ends are, We’re like to meet no more; What thoughts at heart have you and I We cannot stop to tell; But dead or living, drunk or dry, Soldier, I wish you well. A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad It was the late summer of 1970. My wife and I were returning from a first-anniversary trip to Canada. My “single redcoat” appeared on the side of the road in northwestern New York…

YouTube: Who Murdered James Forrestal? The First UFO Cover-Up

2026-04-22 David Martin

Scare Mail How desperate are they getting to cover up the Zionist assassination of America’s first Secretary of Defense? Who is this actor? The fact that he fails to take credit right up front for what he is putting out is very telling. His script writers also erase all doubt that the UFO business is a big subterfuge to steer the public away from the Zionists, who were almost certainly doing what they are notorious for. Even before the suspicious death of James Forrestal, the leading opponent among many within the Truman administration of the creation of the state of Israel, the Zionists had wracked up a pretty big known assassination score, starting with Lord Moyne in 1944, ninety-one people, primarily British officials, with the bombing of…

A Near Disaster at Fort Bragg

2026-01-292026-01-30 David Martin

It was in 1969 or 1970, as I recall. I had finished my active-duty military time as a lieutenant in the Transportation Corps, first doing their basic training at Fort Eustis, Virginia, and then being moved down the Peninsula a few miles to Fort Monroe in Hampton. I had completed my active service with 13 months in Korea and had begun graduate studies in economics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. I was none too happy about it, I must admit, when I discovered that the Army was not through with me. They sent me to the office of a lawyer in Wilson, NC, an Army Reserve artillery colonel, who informed me that he would be my…