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...
One of those men was Henry Marshall, whose death—he was shot five separate times in the chest with a rifle—was ruled “a suicide.” On June 3, 1961, Henry Marshall was found dead on his farm near Bryan in Robertson County, Texas. He had been shot five times with his own...
Techniques of Torture and Assassination Deployed by the SBU (Ukraine’s CIA) Recall the U.S.’s Brutal “Operation Phoenix” in Vietnam Vasily Prozorov, a former officer with the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU) stated soon after his defection to Russia in 2018 that the SBU had been advised by the CIA...
Long Was Poised to Challenge Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 Democratic Party Primary Before He Was Killed “Times have told us that dirty tricks did not end with Brutus.” – Tom Weiss, brother of alleged assassin, Carl A. Weiss. Jessica Lauren Fields was a beauty shop worker living in Baton...
Hailed by The Nation as "the Senator from the Left" and by Mother Jones as "the first 1960s radical elected to the U.S. Senate," he was killed in a 2002 plane crash just 10 days before a crucial election he was likely to win—a win that would have clinched...
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...
On the evening of September 14, Delegate of the Word Juan López had just finished leading a Saturday evening service at the Catholic church in Tocoa, Honduras. Witnesses say that, as he was getting to his car, someone on a motorcycle rode by and shot him multiple times, killing him. López...
Hunter S. Thompson’s death 18 years ago remains suspicious. He left no suicide note and, according to the official story, supposedly shot himself while on the phone with his wife in mid-conversation—though she never heard any gunshots. The night before his death, Hunter told a friend: “They’re gonna make it...
Former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has now cleared Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam who were wrongfully convicted of Malcolm’s 1965 murder. Vance and other government authorities, however, refused to investigate the FBI, NYPD, CIA, and other government agencies for their role in his killing. In recent months, the corporate...
Gary Devore was reportedly kidnapped on his way back from finishing a script about the invasion of Panama. Despite rumors about his mysterious background, he may have found his unlucky demise when he traveled through an area known for an ongoing criminal enterprise of meth distributors, powerful motorcycle gangs,...