The peaceful succession of presidents is sacrosanct in American democracy and marks the United States as an “exceptional nation” which does not experience the same kind of palace intrigues and coups as other nations.
Conventional wisdom holds that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, by Lee...
California parole commissioners recommended on August 27th that Sirhan Sirhan should be freed after spending more than 50 years in prison for assassinating Robert Kennedy. Strong evidence suggests that Sirhan was not the real killer and would be exonerated in any new and objective trial.
Suspicion lingers that he was killed with the assistance of the CIA or other Western intelligence services when he began to question U.S. regional designs in the aftermath of the 1990s Balkan Wars.
The right of humanitarian intervention, if it exists as a category in international law, is premised...
On August 10, 2019, Mark Epstein was eating breakfast at a hotel in Norfolk, Virginia, when he saw a breaking news story on CNN that his older brother, Jeffrey, had supposedly committed suicide while awaiting trial at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan.
Mark is a...
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...
Pink Floyd Star Declared “Enemy of Ukraine”
I have written about the Ukrainian hit list known as Mirotvorets, or “Peacekeeper,” twice before. The first time was in an article about internet censorship, and the second time was when a 13-year-old Ukrainian girl, Faina Savenkova, was added to the list for publicly speaking out against Kyiv’s...
Police investigation should be reopened due to evidence of foul play.
Colby made many enemies inside the Agency by revealing the “Family Jewels.” His “spooky” death 26 years ago today bore similarities to that of CIA veteran John Arthur Paisley, who disappeared on a boat off the Chesapeake Bay 18...
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 December 10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.”
Webb’s death was listed as a...
Colonel Ralph Van Deman assisted in cover-up with General John J. Pershing
In March 1916, General John J. Pershing, the father of U.S. military intelligence who commanded U.S. forces in World War I, led a punitive expedition into Mexico targeting Francisco “Pancho” Villa, a revolutionary who wanted to redistribute...
