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Posner in NY Times Calls on Pope Francis during Auschwitz Visit to Free Vatican's Secret Holocaust Files

Here is my opinion editorial today in the NY Times, urging Pope Francis to follow-up on his longstanding promise to release the Vatican's secret Holocaust archives.  Today is the right moment since the Pope visits Auschwitz. Some of you might remember that in 2015 in separate editorials in The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post I called on the Pope to release these archives In 1991 I wrote an editorial in the NY Times calling on the Argentines to release their Nazi...

TBT: A reminder of my 1987 police escort into Hong Kong's notorious slum, the Walled City

TBT: A recent article in the Daily Mail about Hong Kong’s notorious Walled City, the gang-controlled, densest slum on the planet, was a vivid reminder that Trisha and I were two of the few Westerners to ever get inside.  With a police escort, of course.  That was back in 1987 while researching “Warlords of Crime," an investigation of the Triads and the heroin trade.
As I wrote in that book, the Walled City was “a haven for drug addicts, a stronghold of gangsters, and a refuge for th...

Help Trisha Posner pick a cover for her upcoming "Pharmacist of Auschwitz" biography

Help my wife, Trisha Posner, and her publisher, choose her next book coverhttps://99designs.co.uk/book-cover-design/vote-6d8eukAs some of you know, Trisha is working hard on her first solo project in 14 years. It is a biography about Victor Capesius, the SS officer who was the chief pharmacist at Auschwitz. As she describes it, "It is a mostly untold tale of murder and greed set against the Holocaust. Capesius escaped after the war, having stolen enough dental gold from his victims to re...

Ted Cruz's Father and the JFK Assassination. Say What?

My favorite recent JFK assassination conspiracy theory, this one showing that Ted Cruz's father was part of the plot.  I'm surprised that so many of us missed this clear photo evidence :-)

http://www.infowars.com/was-cruzs-fat...

Video trailer for Trisha Posner's upcoming PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ

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CNN. Cable News Network or Cable No News?

OK, fair disclosure: Trisha Posner and I are news junkies. Part of our DNA. We start each morning with newspapers. And we also watch some TV news. Just enough to get an idea if the rest of the world outside of Miami is still there. The ‘news’ part is increasingly hard to find.

Our unofficial test this morning, flipping back and forth for only the first 15 minutes starting @ 8:00AM

BBC:
- a flyover collapse in Calcutta
- corruption scandal with South African president Zuma
- surprise acquittal of n...

"South Beach on the Cusp"

The FIU arts magazine Inspicio in its springtime edition is running "The Death of an American City," Chapter 7 of my 2009 book, Miami Babylon, together with some wonderful, previously unpublished pictures of South Beach, from NYT architecture journo David Dunlap.  

This is when South Beach reached its nadir.  It was almost impossible then to think that this southern tip of Miami Beach would be anything other than a battleground for government redevelopment agencies fighting for powe...

Some karma at last when it comes to the bones of Nazi Angel of Death Josef Mengele?

Some karma at last when it comes to the bones of Josef Mengele?In June '85 Trisha was the first to answer the phone when it rang about 4:00AM. After 30 seconds or so she handed it toward me."Who is it?""Some German reporter. They say they found Mengele's bones.""Again?"It turned out that Brazilian police had announced a break in their investigation had led to the grave of the elusive Nazi doctor. In front of a horde of local reporters, and with forensics standards that made the OJ investigato...

The next Gerald Posner book: BIG PHARMA

After looking into half a dozen possible follow-ups to God's Bankers - A History of Money and Power at the Vatican during the past six months, I am very happy to report a new deal with Simon & Schuster and my gifted editor, Ben Loehnen.As reported today in New York Post Page Six, my new book is an investigation of the trillion dollar drug industry.The fact that this comes just two days after Trisha Posner inked a deal for her 'Pharmac...

"Say it Ain't So Pete!" How did Pete Rose's obsessions bring him tumbling from the pinnacle of baseball?

"Say it ain't so Pete!""The inside story of how one of baseball's greatest-ever players, Peter Rose, is at the center of the sport's most tumultuous scandal" Penthouse, September 1989By  Gerald Posner

Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati, September 11, 1985. The Padres' Eric Show hurls a fastball, and Pete Rose slashes at the pitch, shooting a line-drive single into left field. It was Rose's 4,192nd career hit, and before he reached first base, the capacity crowd was on its feet....