What Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” says about Trump’s collusion with Israel Ali Abunimah Russia-obsessed US politicians and pundits remain curiously incurious about evidence of Trump’s collusion with Israel. (via Facebook) Since Donald Trump excommunicated Steve Bannonover comments he made in Michael Wolff’s new book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, American media have spoken of little else. The president declared that his former strategist and the boss of far-right Breitbart News had “lost his mind” for saying that a meeting Donald Trump Jr. and presidential son-in-law Jared…
Mona Alexis Pressley: Americans are Being Conditioned to Believe Absurdities
Mona Alexis PressleyConspiracy Realist “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”–Voltaire [Editor’s note: The latest absurdity regarding the Las Vegas hoax assails the press for the greatest media cover-up in history by not exposing that there were multiple shooters, even from choppers, who were firing on the crowd, ignoring the mountain of proof that nobody died during the event. As Mona wrote to me about this, “Amazing! They agree there was a drill and many lies from everyone involved. They go that…
Dr. Eowyn: Steve Bannon turns against President Trump, calls him ‘treasonous’
Dr. Eowyn There really are neither friends nor dependable allies in politics. On August 7, 2017, Steve Bannon resigned as President Trump’s White House Chief Strategist and returned to Breitbart News as its executive chairman At the time, Bannon’s departure was described as unacrimonious. While The New York Times, quoting two anonymous “administration officials,” alluded to infighting (“confrontation within” Trump’s “inner circle”) as the reason for the resignation (or dismissal) of “the embattled White House chief strategist who helped Mr. Trump win the 2016 election,” Bannon himself told author Joshua Green: “If there’s any confusion out there,…
Philip M. Giraldi: Expect Even Less Freedom of Internet in 2018
Philip M. GIRALDI Users of social media have been increasingly reporting that their accounts have been either censored, blocked or suspended during the past year. Initially, some believed that the incidents might be technical in nature, with overloaded servers struggling to keep up with the large and growing number of accounts, but it eventually emerged that the interference was deliberate and was focused on individuals and groups that were involved in political or social activities considered to be controversial. At the end of last year a number of…
Robert Crowley: 1963: JFK Assassination: A Confession of the CIA’s Complicity
[Editor’s Note: This section on “1963: JFK Assassination” comes from a lengthy piece published by Institute for the study of Globalization and Cover Politics (16 August 2014) by Joel v.d. Reijden as a revision of an earlier version by Gregory Douglas/Walter Storch. His account of the assassination of JFK amounts to a confession of the complicity of the agency. The conspiracy appears to have begun in Los Angeles when LBJ forced himself on the ticket with JFK. He admits that Lee Harvey Oswald was the patsy and had not fired…
Robert Crowley: Early 1950s: Operation Mockingbird: Taking Control of the Media
[Editor’s Note: This section on “Early 1950s: Mockingbird: Taking control of the media” comes from a lengthy piece published by Institute for the study of Globalization and Cover Politics (16 August 2014) by Joel v.d. Reijden as a revision of an earlier version by Gregory Douglas/Walter Storch. His discussion of Operation Mockingbird appears to be well-founded, where Reijden attempts to spin his further confession of the complicity of the CIA in the assassination of JFK–which I shall discuss in a sequel–as though it were not. Robert Crowley was revealing too…
Dr. Eowyn: A “Politically Correct” Christmas Story
Dr. Eowyn [Note: This “Politically-Correct Christmas Story” is my revised version of the story that a faithful FOTM reader, pnordman, sent me years ago. She passed away on April 21, 2015. This post is dedicated to her memory.] And Joseph went up from Galilee to Bethlehem with Mary, his cisgender wife, who was great with child. And she brought forth a son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn. And an Angel of the Lord spoke to the shepherds and…
For Christmas: Why We Need MORE Conspiracy Theorists!
Jim Fetzer No public relations effort in the 20th century has rivaled that of the CIA attacking critics of The Warren Report (1964) as “conspiracy theorists” in a memorandum of April 1967, implying that, unless those speaking out knew everything there was to know about what happened to JFK, they should not be taken seriously, which is, of course, completely absurd. The early critics of the government’s “official account” of the assassination, such as Mark Lane, Jim Garrison and David Lifton, among others, were observing that the narrative…
The Death of Academic Freedom: Prof James Tracy Denied First Amendment Rights by Federal Court
Vivian Lee On December 11, 2017, in a serious miscarriage of justice, a jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, ruled unanimously in favor of Florida Atlantic University and against former Media Studies Professor James Tracy, who was suing for reinstatement after his firing in 2016. The jury found that Tracy’s “controversial” articles on Memory Hole Blog were not a “motivating factor” in his firing, the only question they were required to consider. Of course, Tracy’s posts at “his conspiracy theory blog” were indeed the reason he was fired, but the…
Cook County commissioner asks UN to send troops to quell Chicago’s gun violence
Dr. Eowyn Last weekend is no different than previous weekends in Chicago, a gun-control city. Sixteen were shot in the city’s mean streets, killing five, including a 15-year-old boy. According to the Chicago Tribune, 2016 was the deadliest year for homicides in decades, but 2017 promises to outpace 2016. The victims are preponderantly black, as are the perpetrators. As an example, the Chicago Sun Times has a website, Homicide Watch Chicago, chronicling every homicide. From the photos on the website’s front page, the latest victims are all black. Chicago is in Cook County in…