August 8, 2017
The 1960’s were over – a time of great social upheaval, civil rights and radical movements that threatened the status quo of conservative society. These cultural swings were now being chipped away at by the power structure of the 1970’s, and Brad Schreiber’s book “Revolution’s End” tells how they went about dismantling those movements using […]
Tags: Brad Schreiber, CIA, Colston Westbrook, Donald DeFreeze, mind control, Patty Hearst, Revolution's End, Vacaville Prison
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January 29, 2017
The infamous Altamont Speedway concert in 1969 was recognized as a turning point in the music scene, the hippie scene and the outlaw biker scene. It was a cultural shift from “The Summer of Love” to the dawning of “The evil hippie”, a branding that exposed the dark undercurrent running through the California rock music […]
Tags: Alan Passaro, Altamont Speedway Concert, CSN&Y, Flying Burrito Brothers, Grateful Dead, Hells Angels, Jefferson Airplane, Joel Selvin, Meredith Hunter, Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, Santana, Sonny Barger
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January 8, 2017
There are books about the Nazis, books about spies, and books about the Kennedy assassination. David Talbot has managed to link all three in a pretty damned good history lesson about the dirty deals made at the end of World War 2 and beyond. Talbot’s book, “The Devil’s Chessboard – Allen Dulles, The CIA and […]
Tags: Allen Dulles, David Talbot, John Foster Dulles, Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, Nazis, Nazis and the CIA, The Devil's Chessboard
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November 20, 2016
With much hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth, the nation braces for our first reality-star presidency. The pointy hoods now removed, Trumps Breitbartian machine begins to mold the primordial slime into a frightening array of cabinet officials and law dogs. The biggest losers? Count the mainstream media among them. Nobody will trust network news anymore, and […]
Tags: Allen Dulles, Anthony Weiner, Bob Fitrakis, Clinton, CounterPunch, Deep State, Election tampering, James Forrestal, John Foster Dulles, President Truman, Rudy Giuliana, Thomas Dewey, Trump
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October 16, 2016
Here we are just weeks away from the rottenest election in recent history, stuck between P.T. Barnum and the corrupt corporate Queen of Chaos. Never in my life have I been so disillusioned with American politics, to the point where I just don’t believe in the system any more. However, we have to take our […]
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September 8, 2016
Review: The Nazis Go Underground (published 1944) Every now and then we can look back to a book or article that was published at a time of great change in history – something that affects the entire world – and we see that the author had the ability to lay out the events clearly and […]
Tags: 1944, Curt Riess, Doran & Co, Doubleday, The Nazis Go Underground
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August 4, 2016
Fear and loathing cloud the life of a boy in the muddy, paranoid backwoods of Washington State, and this family biography by J.G. Daniel couldn’t come at a better time; Review by John Titus “I was twelve years old, lying face down on my belly in the prone position in front of our old doublewide […]
Tags: anticommunism, Hate or be Hated, J.G. Daniel, paranoia, The John Birch Society, Washington State
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July 26, 2016
Imagine you are locked in the trunk of a car, or thrown into water with your hands tied behind your back, or need to install an audio bug in a room… how do you handle these survival and surveillance issues? Well, Clint Emerson has put together just such a guidebook. In “100 Deadly Skills; The […]
Tags: 100 Deadly Skills, Clint Emerson, escape and evasion, improvised weapons, Navy Seals, spycraft
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June 13, 2016
Allan Weisbecker is a fascinating, driven individual. I first heard of Allan when he debated philosopher-theorist Joe Atwill on Atwills podcast. The subject was Atwill’s claim that writer Ken Kesey had been in on a government plot to destabilize the 60’s youth movement. Weisbecker pretty much handed Atwill his ass with a spirited defense of […]
Tags: Allan Weisbecker, Banditobooks.com, conspiracy theory, expat surfer communities
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May 22, 2016
Espionage, Congressional scandal, Karate and Korean mobsters – what more does a good book need? Going over some research on Japan and South Korea I found a review that I originally published in May of 2011. It’s a pretty wild true history and I think it’s worth taking another look at. “A Killing Art” by […]
Tags: Alex Gillis, General Choi, Kim Un-yong, Korean war, Olympic Sport Tae Kwon Do, Tae Kwon Do
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