Dirty Jobs
David Robarge, the CIA’s chief ‘historian’. I don’t envy academic gate-keepers: their job is to cover up really big lies, which is almost always impossible. In fact, in their attempt to mislead the...
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 ArticleGreat Users of People
I started to think about ‘power worship’ a couple of years ago, after having read a few essays by George Orwell on the subject. Orwell thought that an unhealthy subservience to power was infecting...
View ArticleThe Rolling Stones and Meyer Lansky?
International mafioso Meyer Lansky. A few days ago I received my copy of Andrew Loog Oldham’s first autobiography, Stoned, so I’m now in a position to reveal who his mother’s long-term boyfriend was:...
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