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on Oct 30, 2009Huffington Post gives us a startling account of Lyndon Johnson's reactions after the assassinaton of President Kennedy. The source is an "a recently declassified oral history by Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh, President Kennedy's military aide on t...
on Oct 29, 2009Thousands gather as Virgin Mary set to make major statementThousands of Irish people claim to have witnessed apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the skies over Knock shrine in Co Mayo.About 5,000 people gathered at the holy Catholic shrine earlier this...
on Oct 25, 2009Jefferson Morley interviewed on the CIA's Oswald/Joannides filesMorley: I never theorize about what’s in the file, because I don’t know what’s in the file. There’s a bunch of possible explanations, ranging from the fairly innocuous — Joanni...
on Oct 25, 2009Gerald Posner, a reporter with good ties in the CIA (to put it charitably) has an interesting article in the Daily Beast titled The Taliban's Heroin Ploy. Now it is fairly clear that the Taliban is not the major player in the Afghan heroin trade. Rep...
on Oct 23, 2009‘Patriots’ can try to capture Obama in new online game If your idea of fun is trying to save America from the ills of President Obama and "pro-Obama forces," then there's a new computer game for you.The multi-player online game "2011: Obama's Cou...
on Oct 22, 2009UN details 'devastating' impact of Afghan opium Afghanistan produces 92 percent of the world's opium in a trade that is worth some 65 billion dollars (43 billion euros), feeds some 15 million addicts worldwide and kills around 100,000 people annually...