Finally, after having been held in U.S. CIA and military custody for more than four years while being subjected to “all appropriate pressure” by “interrogators” employing their “full range of permissible techniques,” the former student at North Carolina’s Chowan College and North Carolina A & T, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has finally claimed to have directed just about every major terrorism attack against the United States over the past fifteen years. From the techniques that we have read about, one has to wonder what took him so long to start singing like a canary. But little known to most Americans, no matter how closely they might follow the news, the torture by whatever name one might choose to call it, is…
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Foster Case Liar Resurfaced Defending Obama’s Drone War
Gene Lyons, Paid Liar, Murder Enabler When it comes to the likes of journalist Gene Lyons, much of what I have to say is already pre-written on my web site. Take, for instance, his notorious recent article in Salon, “In Defense of Obama’s Drones.” Although I’ll discuss that noxious work briefly at the end of this article, the last verse of my 1998 poem, “Press Peonage,” really says it all: Though much that we see in our leadership Is thoroughly reprehensible, Our scribbling serfs will stick to their trade Defending the indefensible. Actually, the subtitle of this article was previously written not just for “the likes of” Gene Lyons, but for the unarrested miscreant himself, and it does not refer…
FULL ARTICLEOne of Many Foster Cover-up Books
With this book, the supposedly conservative Regnery Publishers is now 3-1-1 on the major scandal involving the Clinton administration, which is the death of Deputy White House Counsel, Vincent W. Foster, Jr. It has published three books that go along with the official suicide line, one that totally demolishes that line, and a third that is ambivalent. In the first category are Unlimited Access by Gary Aldrich, A Washington Tragedy by Dan E. Moldea, and now High Crimes and Misdemeanors by Ann Coulter. In the second category is the best book so far on Bill Clinton, narrowly edging out Roger Morris’ Partners in Power, the Clintons and Their America, which is The Secret Life of Bill Clinton by the British…
FULL ARTICLETypical Propaganda on the Vince Foster Death
The following two paragraphs are from the book, “Truth at Any Cost: Ken Starr and the Unmaking of Bill Clinton,” by Susan Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf, p. 112: Starr kept thinking back to another investigation involving a president. As a young lawyer in the late 1970s, he had tried a case with David Belin, who had worked on the Warren Commission inquiry into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Starr asked him about the Warren Commission’s finding that a single gunman had killed the president. Belin said he was haunted by criticism that the commission had rushed to judgment. Belin was certain of its conclusion, but the public was not, and in that way, he believed, the commission had failed.…
FULL ARTICLEThe Moral Midgets of American Academia
HEADLINE: 400 Historians Denounce Impeachment, Case Against Clinton Departs From Framers’ Intent for Presidency, Letter Argues The Washington Post, October 29, 1998 So, 400 of the nation’s “leading historians” have put what is left of their prestige and credibility on the line by coming out against the impeachment of President Clinton. They could hardly better demonstrate why they deserve the scorn that I heap upon them and their fellow academicians in my America’s Dreyfus Affair – Part 4. Like our journalists, they would have been right at home among the Union of Soviet Writers, without an Alexander Solzhenitsyn or even a Roy Medvedev in the lot. As a fellow Southerner much influenced by his great scholarship, I was particularly saddened…
FULL ARTICLECohen on Ruddy
With his review of Christopher Ruddy’s book, The Strange Death of Vincent Foster, an Investigation, in the November 24, 1997, issue of National Review entitled, “Conspiracy Central,” Professor Jacob Cohen of Brandeis University has illustrated all too well why mainstreamers generally stay mum about the Foster case. Assuming that the typical reader of the National Review is not entirely bereft of critical faculties, he could not help being tipped off from reading the review, even without the response from Ruddy and from Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media that it provoked in the December 22 issue, that there is something terribly wrong with the official suicide story. Any reader who gets his news from the usual “mainstream” sources would have…
FULL ARTICLESheila Anthony Defends Her Changed Foster Story
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…
FULL ARTICLEOliver Stone on the Japanese Surrender
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…
FULL ARTICLEMartial Machismo: At What Cost
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…
FULL ARTICLEPollyanna on Vince Foster and our Presidents
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.” …
FULL ARTICLELetter to a Historian over Foster and the Clintons
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…
FULL ARTICLELetter to a Court Historian about James Forrestal’s Death
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…
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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…
FULL ARTICLEMcCarthy Target Touted Soviet Agent’s Book in NY Times
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…
FULL ARTICLEAmerican Betrayal
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…
FULL ARTICLELying about Bombing
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…
FULL ARTICLEThe Pearl Harbor Betrayal and James Forrestal’s Death
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…
FULL ARTICLESeeds of Permanent Conflict in Palestine
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…
FULL ARTICLEWhat Did Anne Frank Have Against Americans?
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. …
FULL ARTICLERemember the Liberty!
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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