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A Tangled Web
Storyteller, by Donald Sturrock. Have I got a good one for you today folks. :) I read Roald Dahl’s authorized biography and despite my intention not to talk about the seamy side of his life, something...
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It’s a Small, Small World
Close your eyes and think of England. A friend recently recommended that I read a book on the JFK assassination by Peter Dale Scott, an ex-professor at UC Berkeley. I wasn’t far in when I bumped into...
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The Strange Story of Mrs Pankhurst
Who owns the copyright? Popular movements so often loose their way. Look at ‘Occupy Wall Street': its original goal was to end government subsidies to corrupt banks ‘too big to fail’. Now, it’s...
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Throwing Good After Bad
My favorite cooking show is Two Fat Ladies: a pair of elderly British spinsters cook the old-school way, with a sprinkling of history and literature thrown in. In one episode Jennifer Paterson, the...
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Jesus, Jimmy
William Stephenson’s medals on a clip, thank you Intrepid-Society.org “There’s no doubt you [James Angleton] are easily the most interesting and fascinating figure the intelligence world has produced,...
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Managed Opposition
Prof. Alfred McCoy during one of many CIA-related media appearances. I woke up last night with the name ‘McCoy’ rolling around in my head. I tried to dismiss my sleeplessness as redux from the previous...
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Eleanor and ISIS
A lady of exploitable insecurities. A few days ago I read an article in Haaretz about young French girls being brainwashed into 1) joining jihad in Syria or 2) working for IS/ISIS/’Islamic State’....
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Who Was Winston Churchill?
Winston Churchill at canvas. There are few twentieth century leaders who are more lionized than Winston Churchill. He has come to epitomize everything that is stalwart and excellent about Britain, a...
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