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...
View ArticleIt’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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThrowing 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...
View ArticleJesus, 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,...
View ArticleManaged 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...
View ArticleEleanor 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’....
View ArticleWho 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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