Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
There’s a stupid fucking idea going around that goes like this: Everything was swell and peaceful in the Middle East until those nasty Christian Crusaders rode in and started hacking the sweet lovable locals to pieces. That’s wrong. Borderline retarded. Why? First of all, history did not magically start with the Crusades, and people before
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
German General Reinhard Gehlen went into hiding as WWII came to an end. As the chief of German Intelligence during Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, he was a most wanted man. The Soviets wanted him dead....
Saturday, February 11th, 2017
In the current comic book news, there are three main “bad guys”: Russia, Iran, and China. Oh you’ll hear all kinds of stories about Putin being a tyrant, Iran threatening Israel, and China being a currency manipulator,...
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
As Canada went to war in 1914, unwanted foreigners were turned overnight into enemies. There had always been doubts about immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in particular the Ukrainians who had settled much of the West. The...
Sunday, December 7th, 2014
The day after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt stood before congress to ask for a declaration of war against Japan. He got it. Ex-President Herbert Hoover, said, “We have only one job to do now, and that...
Monday, December 1st, 2014
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” – Winston Churchill The more history I read, the more I’m convinced that the history I was taught in school was a lie. Well, not...
Saturday, November 8th, 2014
Former Navy Seal, Rob O’Neill’s claim to have shot Osama Bin Laden, and the Pentagon’s official denial, are just one more episode in the Bin Laden fraud. There is no evidence to support O’Neill’s claim, nor is...
Friday, October 31st, 2014
At the start of the First World War, the big idea guys said that regular people would not march off to fight and kill their neighbors. Instead, they would rise up to overthrow their rulers, and then...
Friday, October 10th, 2014
When Ruppelt rejoined the Air Force he was sent to ATIC to analyze the performance of the Russian MiG-15 jet fighter that American pilots were facing in Korea. UFO reports were still arriving at the moribund Project...
Wednesday, September 17th, 2014
On the night of July 17, 1957, a UFO stalked a US Air Force RB-47 electronic reconnaissance plane for one and a half hours over an 800-mile course from the Mississippi Gulf Coast to Oklahoma. The RB-47...
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
The index case for the modern UFO “epidemic” was the 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting. If it had been an isolated event it would have dropped off the front pages and out of history, but it was the...
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
Known as the last of the Texas Wheeler Dealers, Billy Sol Estes got his start at age 13, when he sold the wool off a lamb that his parents had given him. He quickly acquired an entire...
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
Over 100 years ago the Galveston Daily News interviewed Nicola Tesla not for his views on science, but on the then burgeoning women’s liberation movement. Widely considered one of the greatest inventors and intellects who ever lived....
Monday, September 8th, 2014
The former director of the CIA, William Colby was reported missing on April 27, 1996 after he had gone canoeing in front of his vacation home. The search for Colby was a news item for the next...
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
A little more than 100 years ago, my ancestors left Ukraine for the New World. They were peasants. They belonged to the land, and that land changed owners regularly: sometimes Russian, sometimes Austrian, and sometimes Polish. Regardless...
