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The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• August 6, 2024
• 2,000 Words • 33 Comments • Reply
This article is from my last book, Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies.(Nov., 2020). Although it was written in 2018, it still seems appropriate on this anniversary of the evil U.S. bombing of Hiroshima. “Ahab is forever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed. ‘Twas rehearsed by thee and me billion years before this... Read More
Acting As If It Weren’t Really So
• June 14, 2024
• 2,200 Words • 7 Comments • Reply
Laughing on the bus/Playing Games with the faces/She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy/I said, “Be careful his bowtie is really a camera” – America by Paul Simon Only people who listen to the chorus of reliable alternative media voices warning of the quickly growing threat of nuclear war have any... Read More
The Immense Hunger
• April 18, 2024
• 1,100 Words • 2 Comments • Reply
Like all living creatures, people need to eat to live. Some people, eaten from within by a demonic force, try to deny others this basic sustenance. All across the world people are starving because the powerful and wealthy create economic and political conditions that allow their wealth to be built on the backs of the... Read More
Night for Day or Day for Night in the Heart of Darkness
• April 5, 2024
• 1,300 Words • 8 Comments • Reply
Overheard in a coffee shop: A woman and a man are sitting together at a table. She with a laptop open before her and he with a coffee and a book. Looking at the screen, she says to him, “I didn’t know that the solar eclipse lasts for 70 to 80 minutes, going from partial... Read More
"The World As It Was": A Masterly Documentary Film
• March 17, 2024
• 1,900 Words • 1 Comment • Reply
Here’s a film about the 1950s – “The World As It Was” – that will tell you a great deal about life in the U.S.A. today, while disabusing anyone of the notion that nostalgia for that mephitic decade is in order, for it was a time when “democracy” tended toward totalitarianism. In doing so, it... Read More
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Jesus, Gaza, and the Murder of Useless People
• December 20, 2023
• 1,800 Words • 175 Comments • Reply
Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem. He grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. It is because of him that we celebrate Christmas. But it is in spite of him that what we celebrate is the opposite of what he stood for. The different stories of his birth,... Read More
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A Powerful, Riveting, and Masterful Documentary Series Begins
• December 13, 2023
• 1,800 Words • 16 Comments • Reply
It is hard for those who have not lived through the shattering political assassinations of the 1960s to grasp their significance for today. Many might assume that that was then and long before their time, so let’s move on to what we must deal with today. Let some old folks, the obsessive ones, live in... Read More
A Message to Donald Rumsfeld’s Ghost About My Known Knowns
• October 9, 2023
• 3,600 Words • 11 Comments • Reply
On February 12, 2002 at a Pentagon news conference, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked by Jim Miklaszewski, the NBC Pentagon correspondent, if he had any evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was supplying them to terrorists. Rumsfeld delivered a famous non-answer answer and said: When he was pressed by Jamie... Read More
Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout
• September 14, 2023
• 1,700 Words • 23 Comments • Reply
Much has been made of the September 9, 2023 simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of the claims of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, who was part of the security detail in Dallas, Texas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Like so many reports... Read More
Mr. Blue and the CIA
• August 18, 2023
• 1,900 Words • 14 Comments • Reply
Some time ago on a Sunday evening when my wife and I had just sat down to dinner, our phone rang. Since I didn’t recognize the phone number and it was dinnertime, I hesitated to answer it, but for some chance reason I did. The voice on the other end was agitated, intense, and asked... Read More
Trinity’s Shadow
• July 20, 2023
• 2,000 Words • 24 Comments • Reply
I sit here in the silence of the awakening dawn’s stillness stunned by the realization that I exist. I wonder why. It is my birthday. The first rays of the rising sun bleed crimson over the eastern hills as I imagine my birth. The house and my family sleep. Someday I will die and I... Read More
Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod
• May 21, 2023
• 1,800 Words • 20 Comments • Reply
We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti, use you forgetty.” The adults had no idea what they meant. Many still do... Read More
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
• April 17, 2023
• 2,200 Words • 371 Comments • Reply
It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in American society. The country was torn asunder by the Vietnam War, racism, poverty, the assassination of President Kennedy and the soon-to-be killing of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.... Read More
"Facing Clear Evidence of Peril" in a Country of Lies
• March 28, 2023
• 2,400 Words • 117 Comments • Reply
Perhaps silence is the best response to the endless cavalcade of official lies that is United States history. The Internet and digital technology have allowed those lies to increase exponentially in number and frequency with the result that people’s minds have become like 7-Eleven stores, open 24/7 for snack-crap “news.” But once you become conscious... Read More
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Graeme MacQueen: The Indispensable 9/11 Writer’s Latest Book
• March 15, 2023
• 2,000 Words • 112 Comments • Reply
The Pentagon’s B-Movie Looking Closely at the September 2001 Attacks by Graeme MacQueen rat haus reality press, 15 March 2023 ratical.org/PentagonsBMovie This free eBook (click on the links above) by Graeme MacQueen contains a collection of his articles and essays on the attacks of September 11, 2001, the subsequent anthrax attacks, and analyses of other... Read More
Quoth the Vultures “Evermore”
• February 27, 2023
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On the short roof outside the bedroom window, two black vultures sit, staring in. They have come to remind me of something. I put my book down and peer back at these strange looking creatures. The book: Our War: What We Did in Vietnam And What It Did to Us by David Harris. I had... Read More
Lucid Summations When Tomorrow Is Today and MLK Day
• January 16, 2023
• 1,800 Words • 11 Comments • Reply
In what follows, I offer some conclusions I have arrived at and am skipping all the steps taken to arrive there. Everyone needs to follow their own path to the end. I know Mills was right when he penned those words long ago. Arguments don’t go too far to convince others; only self-directed investigations do.... Read More
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Tucker Carlson and the JFK Allegations
• December 25, 2022
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On December 15, the night that the Biden administration released some of the remaining JFK files while withholding others with another half-assed excuse, Tucker Carlson, the most-watched cable news television host, delivered a monologue about the JFK assassination. It garnered a great deal of attention. Although I don’t watch Carlson’s television show, I received messages... Read More
Who Knew: We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here
• November 10, 2022
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My title comes from a song sung by soldiers as they marched to hell in the trenches of World War I and the same song my sisters and I sang in the car as our parents drove us to our summer vacation in paradise at Edgewater Farm. I think of this as we march to... Read More
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A Review Essay of Max Good’s Documentary Film
• July 5, 2022
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Human duplicity is a marvel to contemplate. This riveting documentary is an excellent example of such cunning in action, not on the part of the filmmaker who is eminently fair, perhaps overly so, but on the part of some of those who appear in the film. It demands that viewers use every skill in their... Read More
Why Is Everything Broken?
• June 2, 2022
• 3,200 Words • 20 Comments • Reply
Being sick for the past few weeks has had its advantages. It has forced me to take a break from writing since I could not concentrate enough to do so. It has gifted me with a deeper sympathy for the vast numbers of the seriously ill around the world, those suffering souls without succor except... Read More
Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
• March 29, 2022
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The timing of the early March 2022 release of this digital streaming documentary could not be more auspicious. For anyone wanting to understand how we arrived at a new Cold War with the second Irish-Catholic Democratic president in U.S. history, Joseph Biden, spewing belligerent absurdities about Ukraine, Russia, and Vladimir Putin, and leading a charge... Read More
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone
A Film Review
• January 16, 2022
• 3,700 Words • 225 Comments • Reply
Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. It opens with President John F. Kennedy giving the commencement speech at American University on June 10, 1963 and it closes with his civil rights speech to the American people the following day. It is a deft artistic touch... Read More
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