Tag: Political Assassination
Part II of a two-part series
“Like a Resistance fighter dead before May 45,I shall begin to decomposeever so slowly in the harrowing light of this sea,a poet and citizen forgotten.”- Pier Paolo Pasolini, “Poems in the Form of a Rose”
This is the second installment of a two-part series exploring...
Part I of Two-Part Series
“Killed to keep the world turningThrow his bones overThe white cliffs of DoverAnd into the sea, the sea of RomeAnd the bloodstained coast of Ostia.”- Coil, “Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)”
In light of the on-going revelations and public obsession surrounding the sordid saga of the...
In August 1991, journalist Danny Casolaro was found dead in a bathtub in a Martinsburg, West Virginia, hotel room with his wrists slashed and cuts so deep it severed a tendon.
Casolaro had been investigating a web of CIA corruption in the 1980s linked to the Iran-Contra scandal and theft...
Of the twentieth century’s most consequential political melodramas, the Ben Barka case ranks with the murder of John F. Kennedy.—Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup.
The investigative journalist Henrik Kruger wrote about the Ben Barka murder in 1980 when it was still unsolved. He said it contained “unexploded fireworks.”
Even after...
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...
April 5 marked the 32nd anniversary of former Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain’s death, supposedly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
This past year, an unofficial private sector team of forensic scientists that put fresh eyes on Cobain’s autopsy and the crime scene material concluded that Cobain’s death actually resulted from...
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...
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...
Who killed Gaddafi's son? Let’s speak plainly, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was a threat to the West—not to the everyday citizens of Europe or America, but to the blood-sucking globalist multinational corporate elites who have been plundering Libya’s vast oil reserves and resources since his father, Muammar Gaddafi, was savagely...
Serious investigations into Palme’s murder point to complicity of right-wing Swedish government officials and possibly the CIA
February 28, 2026, marks 40 years since Prime Minister Olof Palme of Sweden left his home to see the film The Brothers Mozart and never came back.
As Palme walked home with his wife...
