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…
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One 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 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 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…
FULL ARTICLEKey False Document in the Thomas Merton Death Case
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 ARTICLEThe American (Establishment) Catholic on Forrestal’s Death
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…
FULL ARTICLEThe Forrestal Murder and the News Media
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,”…
FULL ARTICLEYouTube: Who Murdered James Forrestal? The First UFO Cover-Up
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…
FULL ARTICLENoam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein, and 9/11
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…
FULL ARTICLEMr. Robinson
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…
FULL ARTICLEArguably the Most Important Historical Book of the Century
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,…
FULL ARTICLEWhat Thomas Merton’s Authorized Biographer Revealed and What He Concealed
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”…
FULL ARTICLEThe Vince Foster-Russia Collusion Hoax Connection
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…
FULL ARTICLEThe Jeffrey Epstein-Vince Foster Connection?
[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…
FULL ARTICLERFO Newsmax Has Huge Stock Price Increase after IPO
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…
FULL ARTICLEChecking Microsoft Copilot on Thomas Merton’s Death
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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