Tag: John F. Kennedy

  • From Dallas to Gaza: How JFK’s Assassination was good for Zionist Israel

    President John F. Kennedy was assassinated sixty years ago. If he had  lived and won a second term, the Israeli Palestinian conflict would have evolved differently. Possibly the path toward Israeli apartheid and genocide in Gaza could have been avoided. In his short time in office, Kennedy changed US foreign policy in significant ways. As […]

  • Hideous Times of High Hope

    Hideous Times of High Hope

    It is hard for those who have not lived through the shattering political assassinations of the 1960s to grasp their significance for today.  Many might assume that that was then and long before their time, so let’s move on to what we must deal with today.  Let some old folks, the obsessive ones, live in […]

  • Refreshing the Camelot School: Kennedy Hagiography at Sixty

    Camelot, the sweetly sentimental shorthand for a shortened US presidency, has generated a mythopoetry so rich it turns the stomach, clogs the intestines, and soils the historical record.  With its effacing tendencies, its soppily loyal hagiographers, its ghastly, moist worshippers, anniversaries are the best occasions to shine.  Six decades have passed since President John F. […]

  • President John F. Kennedy: His Life and Public Assassination by the CIA

    President John F. Kennedy: His Life and Public Assassination by the CIA

    What is the truth, and where did it go? Ask Oswald and Ruby, they oughta know “Shut your mouth,” said the wise old owl Business is business, and it’s a murder most foul Don’t worry, Mr. President Help’s on the way Your brothers are coming, there’ll be hell to pay Brothers? What brothers? What’s this […]

  • An Epistle to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

    An Epistle to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

    Dear Bobby, As you know, I have supported your bid for the presidency even before you declared last spring.  I have admired and believed in you for years, and when you entered the race I felt hope for the first time in decades that your non-violent impulses, honed by your tragic family history and a […]

  • A Message to Donald Rumsfeld’s Ghost About My Known Knowns

    A Message to Donald Rumsfeld’s Ghost About My Known Knowns

    On February 12, 2002 at a Pentagon news conference, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked by Jim Miklaszewski, the NBC Pentagon correspondent, if he had any evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was supplying them to terrorists.  Rumsfeld delivered a famous non-answer answer and said: Reports that say that something hasn’t […]

  • Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout

    Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout

    Much has been made of the September 9, 2023 simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of the claims of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, who was part of the security detail in Dallas, Texas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.  Like so many reports […]

  • JFK’s World Peace Speech and National Security State Takedowns of US Presidents  

    President Kennedy’s World Peace speech on June 10, 1963,where he championed nuclear disarmament and lasting peace with the Soviet Union, is given renewed attention with a Kennedy now running for president and by the present war with Russia. JFK supposedly underwent a transformation after the near mutual nuclear annihilation with the Soviet Union during the […]

  • John F. Kennedy on Ending the US War on Vietnam: His Own Words

    With the advent of a new Kennedy running for president, new life was given to JFK’s World Peace speech on June 10, 1963, both among some progressives, and even the LaRouche Schiller Institute. Their thesis is that Kennedy was planning on making peace with the Soviet Union and was going to withdraw US troops from […]

  • Technology Needs Assessments by Congress, Municipalities, and Local Civic Groups

    The pace of for-profit technological innovations is accelerating, but to what end beyond corporate sales? The gap between marketing new high-tech products and assessing their intended and unintended consequences has never been greater. Let’s start with the ballooning of augmented reality inside virtual reality. Facebook’s Oculus Rift escapism has flopped. Trying to improve on this […]

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