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 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 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 ARTICLEDevin Nunes and the USS Liberty
“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…
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 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 ARTICLEConfessions of a Murdering Sovereign American Hero
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…
FULL ARTICLEU.S. Ratchets Up Censorship
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…
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 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 ARTICLERaymond Aron on Leftists
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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