Last week I published an article discussing former Ambassador Chas Freeman, one of America's most highly-regarded professional diplomats of the last half-century. Very early in his career, Freeman had been the personal interpreter for President Richard Nixon during his historic 1972 trip to China and meetings with Mao, and that country remained one of his... Read More

Donald Trump has selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services in his new administration, and the latter has declared that his mission will be to "Make America Healthy Again." But even if Kennedy is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he faces a very stiff challenge in fulfilling that... Read More

There's a famous, apparently true story regarding the aftermath of the purge and summary execution of NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria in the old Soviet Union. Beria had spent many years at the pinnacle of Soviet power and naturally had been given a long and glowing entry in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, copies of which were... Read More

For decades the British journalist Piers Morgan has been a fully mainstream media figure, though having a career with the ups and downs typical of the tabloid wing of that profession. According to his very extensive 11,000 word Wikipedia article, he was born in 1965, started at Rupert Murdoch's The Sun in 1988, then at... Read More

Although the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was not one of the awards originally established by Alfred Nobel, most of the world's population and media treat it as such, with that impression strengthened because it is announced around the same time. Just as with the Nobel Prizes in Physics or Medicine, the award in... Read More

Although I've been reading the New York Times every morning for almost 45 years, I've gradually become more and more disgusted with it, and occasionally say so in my articles. For example, back in 2016 I wrote: I've always regarded diet books as the quintessential example of worthless content, regardless of how many millions of... Read More

I've often suggested that our media functions as a powerful tool of mind-control, not too dissimilar from what might be found in the plotlines of classic science fiction. After spending weeks or months immersed in such a controlling narrative, thinking independent thoughts let alone completely breaking free becomes a very difficult undertaking. For most individuals,... Read More

I've always enjoyed solving historical puzzles and figuring out what really happened, but I'd never had the slightest interest in conspiracy theories, which I'd always dismissed as nonsense. As a consequence, I'd spent nearly my entire life never doubting nor questioning the broad sweep of our last century of world history, as had been so... Read More

For years, Tucker Carlson had been the highest-rated host on television, courageously covering the important, controversial topics that few others dared to touch. After his forced departure from FoxNews in April 2023, he soon launched an even bolder interview show on Elon Musk's Twitter platform, now completely free of the timorous corporate oversight and time... Read More

The eleven month anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel passed two days ago and in two more days we will reach the twenty-third anniversary of the September 11th Attacks on America. Both these events have become so infamous that they are now among the tiny handful that can easily be identified merely... Read More

For 45 years I've read the New York Times in its print edition almost each and every morning, together with the Wall Street Journal. Until about a decade ago, I also read four of California's leading newspapers in similar fashion, but as they declined into just pale shadows of what they once had been, I... Read More

Back in the summer of 2018, I launched my American Pravda series in earnest, deciding to finally present some of the extremely controversial material that I'd gradually uncovered during the previous five or ten years. One of my earliest articles focused upon the Jewish role in the Bolshevik Revolution and the resulting ideological aftershocks in... Read More

A quarter-century ago in 1999 The Matrix entered our theaters and became an instant film classic as well as a colossal blockbuster, earning nearly $500 million at the box office. There were also interesting epistemological implications to the notion that our own world was merely the illusion created within a computer simulation, hiding the grim... Read More

The stated purpose of our alternative media website is to provide convenient access to "interesting, important, and controversial perspectives largely excluded from the American mainstream media." In fulfillment of this mission, we regularly cover highly-controversial topics only rarely presented in other publications, while also moderating the resulting discussions with a very light hand. As an... Read More

Two weeks ago I published a long article on the JFK Assassination, pointing to the overwhelming evidence that Kennedy's own successor Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson had very likely been a central figure in the plot. I closed the essay by quoting several early paragraphs from a different article that I had published more than... Read More

Back in 2019 a prominent public figure---whose name is widely known---came to Palo Alto to have a private dinner with me. Apparently he'd become aware of my controversial writings the previous year on the JFK Assassination and in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein revelations, he'd concluded I was probably correct that Israel and its... Read More

Back in my younger years I greatly enjoyed Science Fiction, and from junior high through graduate school, I probably read a thousand or more books in that genre, captivated by the enormous range of interesting ideas presented. My two favorite authors had originally been Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, though they were eventually replaced... Read More

Over the last half-dozen years I've regularly cited the work of John Beaty, a respected academic who spent his entire teaching career at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. During World War II, Prof. Beaty served in Military Intelligence and his responsibilities included producing the daily intelligence briefing reports distributed to the White House and... Read More

Being a college town, Palo Alto once offered a multitude of excellent new and used bookstores, perhaps as many as a dozen or so. But the rise of Amazon produced a great extinction in that business sector, and I think only two now survive, probably still more than for most towns of comparable size. Amazon... Read More

The Israel/Gaza conflict is now well into its eighth month as the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians continues unabated, with many tens of thousands of helpless civilians already dead. Despite occasional bleats of feeble disapproval by members of the Biden Administration, America's government has continued to fully support that massacre, providing all the necessary money... Read More

Over the last dozen years I've published more than two hundred major articles totaling well over a million words, with the bulk of these having been produced during the last six years and roughly two-thirds of them included in my American Pravda series. Most of these individual pieces have developed or promoted analyses of events... Read More

Two weeks ago I published an article on Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, prompted by some of his recent public remarks. During one of his regular weekly interviews on Andrew Napolitano's podcast, he had briefly stated that the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy had been the result of a conspiracy involving elements... Read More

Earlier this month I published a long article on the notorious 1994 genocide in Rwanda, explaining that the actual facts may have been very different than what I'd always assumed. As reported by the Western media, Hutu extremists assassinated the country's moderate Hutu president by shooting his plane out of the sky and then immediately... Read More

Although I sometimes fall short, I always try to be very accurate and careful in my writing, doing my best to avoid the mistakes that might be eagerly pounced upon by my legion of harsh critics. This is especially necessary when discussing the ultra-controversial topics that are so often the focus of my essays. For... Read More

Last week I published an article noting that although technology industrialist Elon Musk probably ranks as the most powerful and influential individual in the Western world, he recently humbled himself, deeply apologizing for some of his casual criticism of Jewish activities and pledging to mend his ways. Traveling to Israel, he met with that country's... Read More