[Okay…it was actually Psilocybin…-JD] In January of 1962, Mary Pinchot Meyer – ex-wife of high-level CIA operative Cord Meyer – began an affair with President John F. Kennedy. Charles Bartlett, a journalist from the Chattanooga Times and a close friend of JFK recalled: “They had great fun together and a lot of things in common. […]
There was one glaring omission in Ken Burns’ (mostly excellent) The Vietnam War series last night. Mainstream history never acknowledges that JFK was firm in his commitment to pull out all US troops by 1965. They always want to make it seem like it was ‘JFK’s war’ – which is not true. He did not […]
1967 was the year of the ‘Summer of Love.’ That was a long time ago. It is truly disheartening to see how far we have regressed as a nation since then. The reaction against the hippies still persists to this day. It’s like some kind of mantra for the alt.right. Nearly everything they find disturbing, […]
The fallback position of fascists and Nazis is always to create an imaginary enemy. In this case let’s call them the “Alt-left” and then let’s blame them for protesting against the Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Let’s blame them for having the shit beaten out of them and for getting in the way of that […]
The propaganda methods perfected by the American Establishment for use on the reluctant American public to get them to back endless wars have been used ever since newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst’s “Remember the Maine!” campaign in 1898 to drum up public support for the Spanish-American war, America’s first imperialist land grab outside the western […]
For the past 40-plus years, the USA has attached its currency to petroleum, and more recently, natural gas. Since President Nixon took America off the gold standard in 1972, we’ve been on the oil standard (“petro dollars”). The key to the dollar being the reserve currency of the world is OIL, plain and simple. When […]
Donald Trump represents white male mediocrity and unearned privilege at its very worst. Rich white males are the ones destroying the planet: they have all of the power, and they control the money supply. They create all the laws and the international treaties. They created the IMF, World Bank, Federal Reserve and the rest of […]
“The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of […]
Psychotic US General Curtis LeMay said of the Korean War (1950-53): “We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea too…over a period of three years or so, we killed off – what? – twenty percent of […]
An orderly and just society is not only more humane; it supports the general welfare and the prosperity of all its citizens. We must have a moral, ethical and impartial society in order to make this happen. The concentration of political power in the hands of an elite few impairs our ability to adapt policy […]
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