On November 22, 1963, the same day as the JFK assassination, Mehdi Ben Barka, an anti-colonial politician and head of the left-wing Union of Popular Forces (UNFP) of Morocco, was sentenced to death in absentia for conspiracy to overthrow King Hassan II. The sentence was carried out two years later...
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.—George Orwell, quoted by Shabak chief Ami Ayalon in 1996. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not the only homicidal politician in the Promised Land. On December 29, 2025, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of the Religious Zionism Party...
On January 31, New York City councilman Robert Holden wrote a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg calling for reopening of the investigation into the death of Dorothy Kilgallen. Described by Ernest Hemingway as “one of the greatest women writers in the world,” Kilgallen was a regular on the...
On September 23, 1978, John Arthur Paisley was reported missing after he disappeared from his boat, Brillig, which was equipped with sophisticated communications equipment, in the Chesapeake Bay. Days later, Paisley’s body was identified in the bay, fitted with weighted diver’s belts around the waist....
On April 6, 2022, Burkina Faso’s ex-President Blaise Compaoré was tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murder. It took 35 years for justice to catch up with him for murdering his revolutionary socialist predecessor, Thomas Sankara (the “Che Guevara of Africa”), in a 1987 right-wing...
Vince Foster was the highest federal official to die since JFK. His death was ruled a suicide; however, strong evidence suggests that he was murdered. Shortly after 6 p.m. on July 20, 1993, following two 911 calls, the U.S. Park Police came upon the body of Vincent W. Foster,...
Series labels bona fide whistleblowers as “out of their mind” and “manipulators” when documented evidence confirms what they are saying In late February, Netflix began airing a four-part docuseries directed by Zachary Treitz called American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders. It follows journalist Christian Hansen as he investigated the August...
New evidence links Zbigniew Brzezinski, the CIA and European fascists who formed the Safari Club to the crime. Dubs had sought to prevent Soviet and U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, which made him a target of neoconservatives.   Elizabeth Gould: “Carter was supposed to advance détente and SALT , not start a...
The ex-wife of CIA agent Cord Meyer, Jr., Mary Pinchot Meyer, was trying to convert JFK to pacifism and was known to make wisecracks at dinner parties about what the CIA was doing in the world. Tragically, she was murdered 60 years ago while taking an afternoon jog by...
A full investigation is needed into his and other deaths that paved the way for right-wing ascendancy and devastation of America’s working class On May 9, 1970, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Walter Reuther was killed, along with his wife May and five other people, after the private jet they...