GOP State Officials Are the Real Threat to Democracy
Defying the democratic principles on which the United States was founded, a group of people is continuously trying to illegally influence the outcome of US elections. More must be done to stop them....
View ArticleWhen Toxic Politics Clash With Toxic Chemicals
Last year, Democratic and Republican members of Congress congratulated each other for what they considered to be a miracle: passage of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act....
View ArticleKochs Back GOP’s Next Push
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View ArticleHackers Eviscerate Election Tech Security…Who’s Surprised?
Over the past two days, all major US news outlets breathlessly reported that hackers in Las Vegas needed little time to expose the security flaws of several types of voting machines this weekend. While...
View ArticleOctober Surprise: War with Iran?
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View ArticleA Close Look at Allen Dulles — a Father of the Deep State
Last week, WhoWhatWhy commemorated the 70th birthday of the CIA with an excerpt from author David Talbot’s book The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret...
View ArticleUS to Arm Ukraine?
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View ArticleDallas Mayor During JFK Assassination Was CIA Asset
Here is the first major revelation from the historic release of previously withheld government records on the JFK Assassination: the mayor of Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was killed in that...
View Article2017 JFK Document Release Shows Former Intelligence Analyst Got It Right
For decades, those investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been eagerly anticipating the release of previously withheld documents scheduled for later this year, October 26....
View ArticleTrump’s Special Interest Man
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View ArticleA First Look at the New JFK Assassination Documents
Rex Bradford is the president and archivist of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a nonprofit entity that has collected millions of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and...
View ArticleChina Strengthens Censors
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View ArticleConservatives Lay Siege to Congressional Budget Office
Republicans spent the first half of this year trying to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Their efforts were stymied in part by Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections showing that all...
View ArticleConservatives Don’t Want You to Know the Cost of Health Care Repeal
Usually, the phrase “kill the messenger” is a bit of overwrought hyperbole. But that was not the case late last month when House Republicans almost did just that. The House considered amendments to a...
View ArticleGOP Plan to Suppress the Rising Millennial Vote: How Will They Do It?
Republicans have tried to cement their power for years by putting in place various schemes to disenfranchise likely Democratic constituencies. Now that millennials might finally become more involved in...
View ArticleMore US Troops to Eastern Europe
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View ArticlePolitico’s Challenge to JFK Orthodoxy That Isn’t
Webster’s dictionary defines disinformation as: “false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth.” For...
View ArticleWill ‘Antitrust’ Movement Develop?
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View ArticleWill the US Be Sending More Troops to Afghanistan? For What?
At a July 19 meeting in the situation room with his military advisers, President Donald Trump reportedly said he wanted to fire the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson. He was...
View ArticleTrump’s Clout ; Anti-Semitic Smear Against McMaster
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