Posts Tagged with "Conspiracy"

Area 51 at the Santa Monica Public Library

Friday, June 3, 2011

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Okay, so right off the bat know: they didn’t talk about aliens. Which was a shame, because the crowd at the Santa Monica Public Library was Ready for Contact. They were, in fact, aching for it, them and their kids, and got kinda belligerent when it didn’t happen. (After all, 64 years is a long [...]

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What Malcolm X Knew That We Need To Learn

Monday, March 1, 2010

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What Malcolm X Knew That We Need To Learn

Forty-five years ago last month, Malcolm X was gunned down in the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. Moments after he was introduced to speak, someone yelled, “Nigger, get your hand outta my pocket!” Malcolm stepped forward to quell the altercation, then a smoke bomb went off and five assassins opened fire with pistols and a shotgun. [...]

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The JFK Assassination in two photographs

Friday, February 12, 2010

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The JFK Assassination in two photographs

The assassinations of the 60s have been on my mind of late, thanks to these Beatle mysteries I’m writing (anybody interested in finding out when they’re coming out should email mikesnewbooks[at]gmail[dot]com). One of the most persistent canards about the JFK assassination is that it’s incredibly difficult to understand, and that one must do a ton [...]

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Who thinks the JFK assassination still matters?

Saturday, October 17, 2009

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The CIA, that’s who. Today’s New York Times details Agency stonewalling over 295 documents relating to George Joannides, an agent working with anti-Castro Cubans out of JM/WAVE, their Miami station. Groups under Joannides’ direction “publicly clashed with” Lee Harvey Oswald. These clashes were some of the most significant ways that Oswald’s personal politics–in other words, [...]

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Talk: JFK and the Unspeakable

Saturday, June 6, 2009

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This is a talk by Jim Douglass, a peace activist and the author of the book “JFK and the Unspeakable.” Perhaps I will get a copy for my birthday. From everything I have read about “Unspeakable,” I think it gets closest to explaining why I’ve always been fascinated with the JFK assassination (from the age [...]

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Okay, still busted….

Sunday, November 19, 2006

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…but I have faith that it will be fixed eventually, so here I am with some random thoughts: 1) I celebrated the Cardinals’ victory in the World Series with a bottle of Veuve-Clicquot. The trick to not becoming a lush is to cultivate sufficiently expensive tastes. 2) I celebrated Halloween at The Aero, a theater [...]

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Saturday roundup…

Saturday, November 13, 2004

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In this week’s New Yorker, Anthony Lane misses the mark on “The Incredibles,” only lukewarm about a movie that was thoroughly well-made, scrupulous about its comic logic, consistently inventive, and utterly enjoyable. Is it that he doesn’t like computer animation, that it’s not the “superheroes-trapped-in-reality” movie he would’ve made, or simply that he doesn’t have [...]

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Guess what? Kerry won!

Friday, November 5, 2004

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For several days now, I have been bedeviled by several things. First, the sickening reversal of the early exit polls that had Kerry in the lead. Second, the Democrats’ ridiculous self-laceration over not being able to gaybash as well as Karl Rove can. (Remember, he’s had years of practice.) And third, the spurious notion that [...]

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Back from vacation…

Thursday, June 24, 2004

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…and ready to see Fahrenheit 9/11! But first, I had to read David Denby’s irritating review in The New Yorker. The New Yorker has been called a self-satisfied bastion of middle-class smugness. And in the American middle class, thou-shalt-not admit the existence of economic classes; it’s unkind towards those below, and impolite towards those above. [...]

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My annual trip back into the thick historical gruel…

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

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…of the JFK assassination has begun, courtesy of The History Channel’s latest installment of the British documentary series, “The Men Who Killed Kennedy.” I only caught the last two of the three–the ones that could be boiled down to: 1) Don’t date Lee Harvey Oswald; and 2) Don’t fuck around with LBJ. Did anyone see [...]

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