(Note 9-15-2025. As of today, I have made revisions to this post. Sometimes I have marked them with the date and in italics. However, since they involve both deletions and insertions, and are fairly frequent, I have occasionally left some unmarked, as it would otherwise interrupt the flow too much.)
Back in the 1980s, I noticed something very odd. I was researching my somewhat seminal conspiracy book The Shadows of Power, published by Western Islands, book arm of the conservative John Birch Society. In doing so, I went through every issue of Foreign Affairs, flagship journal of the Council on
(Note: all images in this post are in the public domain.) Without even going into the well-known degradations of modern Hollywood, I have written about the past politicization of the Academy Awards—for example, the shunning of It’s a Wonderful Life for “Best Picture” of 1946 in favor of the politicized
You might need to click twice on the video for it to play. After watching the video, please see the brief supplementary notes below it which I later appended. Addendums: First, concerning Robert Welch. Shortly after founding the John Birch Society in 1958, he published The Blue Book, a
On January 6, 2025, Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: Many assumed Trump’s remarks were only facetious. Or were they? Just two days later, at a press conference, Trump said he wanted to incorporate Greenland into the United States. Although this, too, was widely dismissed as absurd, Trump quickly underscored
(Yes, April.) As a rule, I almost never make predictions. It seldom pays. It’s so much easier to be wrong about the future than right. However, a combination of factors—ongoing conditions, significant anniversaries, and past predictions—make me somber concerning this coming April, even though they only constitute circumstantial (indirect) evidence.
Last week, in my post “Yeah, I Got Scammed,” I mentioned that every year, on the anniversary of 9/11, I Tweet out many (100 plus) memes, short videos, and links pertinent to 9/11. The problem is that, starting in 2021, Twitter began an extreme shadowban against me. According to Microsoft
James Perloff dismantles the official Lincoln assassination story in his just-released book, “Exploding the Official Myths of The Lincoln Assassination”, thanks to the digitization of handwritten 19th century documents, and with help from two intrepid predecessors—one alive, the other dead for more than 60 years.
Acts of terror have been carried out by people of many nationalities and ideologies. But contrary to the mainstream media’s spin, since World War II Israel has probably been the world’s number-one sponsor of terrorism, implemented “by way of deception”—words from the motto of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. These acts
Here is how the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis rather typically describes the 1907 Panic on their website: The Panic of 1907 was a financial crisis set off by a series of bad banking decisions and a frenzy of withdrawals caused by public distrust of the banking system. J.P.
