What are people talking about when they talk about ‘the deep state’?
The term was coined by Professor Peter Dale Scott of the University of California. With the help of DarkJournalist Daniel Liszt, Scott explains. You don’t have to agree with all that Scott says (I...
View ArticlePeter Dale Scott reconceives the JFK story
Peter Dale Scott’s conceptualization of the assassination of President Kennedy offers a bracing challenge to contemporary American historiography, political science, and national security studies....
View ArticleDavid Talbot and Peter Dale Scott talk about ‘The American Deep State’
“America is ruled by a parallel system of power that operates above and in some ways below our system of democratic governance,” says David Talbot in this engaging conversation with University of...
View ArticleJFK’s differences with the CIA were profound. Trump’s, not yet.
From the fever swamp of InfoWars, Jerome Corsi reports that “JFK researchers” are saying that President Donald Trump is at risk for assassination because of his differences with the Central...
View ArticleTrump, JFK, and the ‘deep state’
I don’t agree with the author’s pro-Trump take but he quotes me accurately about the secret government. The idea that the CIA is the source of Trump’s problems is simplistic. Source: Trump, JFK, and...
View ArticleAngleton and the Deep State: a conversation
I recently spoke with David Murrell of the Washingtonian magazine about THE GHOST and the relevance of the James Angleton story today. He also asked about JFK and I replied like this: And what’s new...
View ArticleTop 3 questions I get on book tour
1) Was Angleton the mole? 2) Who killed JFK? 3) What’s the deal with Trump & the Deep State? I’m talking about all this, plus the Mossad and MKULTRA. In other words, I’m talking about THE GHOST,...
View Article‘Judge Henderson’s well-reasoned dissent in this case puts me at odds with...
Of recents news events, Rick writes: “Although I support Judge Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court, I am greatly dismayed that he played this role denying Jeff Morley’s suit. The real culprit,...
View ArticleNow is a good time to lay to rest the JFK conspiracy theories about George Bush
George H. W. Bush, CIA director and future president (This post was first published on the JFK Facts blog, in different form under a different headline, in March 2013) The theory that the late...
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