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Lying about Bombing

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of Bashar Assad of Syria, even as they were reporting the news of the tragedy, and the United States government has withdrawn its ambassador from Syria in “retaliation,” as if Bush and company were certain that Syria was to blame.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…

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The Pearl Harbor Betrayal and James Forrestal’s Death

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…

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Seeds of Permanent Conflict in Palestine

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…

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What Did Anne Frank Have Against Americans?

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. …

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Remember the Liberty!

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…

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Devin Nunes and the USS Liberty

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…

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The American (Establishment) Catholic on Forrestal’s Death

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…

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The Forrestal Murder and the News Media

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,”…

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A Vietnam Grunt’s “Guardian Angel”

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…

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

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…

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A Near Disaster at Fort Bragg

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…

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Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein, and 9/11

David Martin

JAN 26, 2026 Somehow I missed the news when it came out last November: Emails show convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had a tight friendship with MIT professor Noam Chomsky that spanned discussions about vacation, politics and included an apparent letter of support from Chomsky…. A WBUR review of the emails shows despite Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute, Chomsky stayed in close contact with Epstein into at least 2017. Chomsky is professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, noted activist and philosopher. The apparently close social relationship between the two men, 25 years apart in age, one from the academic, the other from the financial world, only came…

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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

Catholic Monk Thomas Merton, famous mainly for his unexpectedly wildly popular 1948 memoir, The Seven Storey Mountain, and in trouble with the U.S. government because of his anti-Vietnam War writings, 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”…

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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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