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JFK Assassination: The Parkland Hospital Confrontation

One of the most indelible images of November 22, 1963 is the Secret Service (SS) confrontation with Dallas medical officials concerning the removal of JFK’s body from Parkland Hospital.  That  scene has been recounted in hundreds of  books and articles about the assassination and had its most vivid portrayal in  Oliver Stone’s movie “JFK”. It has left an impression on the public memory that would be hard to erase or alter. But is it an accurate account of events?

CONFRONTATION AT PARKLAND

The co...

The Fall of Israel

I have previously written about Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, calling it “the most successful military raid of this century.”

I have described the Hamas action as a military operation, while Israel and its allies have called it a terrorist action on the scale of what transpired against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

“The difference between the two terms,” I noted,

is night and day — by labeling the events of October 7 as acts of terrorism, Israel transfers blame for the huge losse...

When Did Our Institutions Lose Our Trust?

This has now reached the point that corporations and institutions are in effect “mining what remains of our trust” to boost profits / private gains.

Social cohesion is another ill-defined concept which is core to social and economic stability, despite the difficulty of measuring it. As with social trust, we sense its presence and its decay rather than measure ups and downs with any precision. Social trust is a core component of social cohesion, and we sense the decay of both, even if there is no...

Why It’s Not Enough To Hate the State

This article is adapted from a lecture delivered at the Albuquerque Mises Circle in New Mexico, September 14, 2024. Listen to an audio version, here.

Throughout its history, liberalism—the ideology today called “classical liberalism” or “libertarianism”—has suffered from the impression that it is primarily against things. This is not entirely wrong. Historically, liberalism coalesced as a recognizable ideology in opposition largely to mercantilism and absolutism throughout western Europe. Over t...

An Open Letter to the Bishops of Canada

Dear Bishops of Canada,

Recently, a radical left-wing politician in Canada put forth a Private Members’ Bill seeking to criminalize “Residential School denialism.” According to the politician, the government of Canada system of boarding schools for Native children that was largely facilitated by the Catholic Church in Canada committed “genocide.” As a result, this person believes that any Canadian who “denies” the “genocide” should be criminally charged. Leaving aside the fact that Private Membe...

The Preposterous Nature of “Reality”

It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that seem randomly meaningless, leading nowhere.  Thoughts that think us.  To dismiss them, however, is a mistake.  For me, these unbidden guests usually visit me when I am out walking or lying in bed right before sleep.

Recently, as I was again walking across the meandering Housatonic River through the covered wooden bridge in Sheffield, Massachusetts, I found myself waylaid by the thoug...

Could Palestine Be the Catalyst for an Islamic Renaissance?

It’s impossible to count on corrupt Arab regimes – the weak link – to stop the Gaza genocide, Pepe Escobar writes.

ISTANBUL – Of all the countless analyses across the lands of Islam about the profound significance of fateful Al-Toofan (Al-Aqsa Flood) on October 7, 2023, this one stands out: a cycle of conferences in Istanbul earlier this week, including October 7, titled Palestine: the Lynchpin of Civilizational Renaissance, linked to the Kuala Lumpur Forum for Thought and Civilization.

Call it ...

Kamala Unwinding

“As the US increasingly resembles ancient Rome, being president is more and more dangerous. Something around 35 emperors met violent deaths, most from people in and around their courts. In other words, members of the Roman Deep State. An ugly situation is brewing in and around Washington DC.” — Doug Casey

Don’t kid yourself: Kamala Harris does not want to be President of the United States. She doesn’t even want the ceremonial stuff, the incessant shuffling from one photo op to the next, the tedi...

How AIPAC Operates

“America is a thing you can move very easily.”
–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Tucker Carlson (TC:) So what’s AIPAC?

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY (TM:) AIPAC is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. And they didn’t start out as a PAC in the sense of a political action committee, but now they have a political action committee. Ostensibly, it’s a group of Americans who lobby on behalf of Israel. They’re for anything Israel. And they’re a very effective lobbying group. …

I bet I may ...

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