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I travelled to Breitbart’s hood to carry out a private investigation of what happened…and found a grisly, blood-splattered crime scene just a block away from his home.

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It didn’t take long after Andrew Breitbart’s death was reported for the Baggertarian Believers to start ominously tweeting out some of the craziest (and funniest) conspiracy theories this side of the John Birch Society. Part of the blame goes to the official “Breitbart died of natural causes” story they put out—no one believes he died of “natural causes,” neither his fans nor his detractors. But if you’re a fan of Breitbart, you can’t face the awful reality of what everyone knows did kill him—degenerate personal habits, and bile. (more…)

March 2nd, 2012 | Comments (69)

River’s Edge Redux: Interview With Jared Lee Loughner’s Tucson Friends

A year ago this week, a 22-year old Army reject with a shaved head and a 9mm opened rapid-fire on a Congressional meet-and-greet outside a Tucson shopping mall, killing six and wounding 14, including a non-fatal headshot against Democratic Rep….

January 10th, 2012 | Comments (62)

Libyan Phantoms & Iranian Assassins: Greatest Hit Squads 1981-2011

If you’re feeling like you’re being taken for a ride with all this nonsense about Iranian-Narco-Mexican terror hit-squads infiltrating this great nation, read on… Last week, the curtains finally came down on Col. Qaddafi. The week before that, we were…

October 26th, 2011 | Comments (18)

Is the Arizona Shooting A New Kind of American Murder?

This story was first published in Vanity Fair. Saturday’s shooting in Tucson, Arizona, has been variously described as an “assassination” and a “shooting rampage”—but which one is it? This may seem like a semantic quibble, but what occurred in that…

January 10th, 2011 | Comments (41)

Assassination By Omission: Another Look At Serial Plagiarist Gerald Posner

Just when you thought you knew who not to trust, along comes another wave of bombshell revelations that make even seasoned skeptics and cranks seem like trusting pollyanas: you can never be too skeptical of the official version of events,…

September 30th, 2010 | Comments (25)

Snitch Nation: Turns Out Ernest Withers, “The Original Civil Rights Photographer,” Was F.B.I. Informant Spying On Civil Rights Leaders…

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Mark Ames Presents Wisdom For The Ages: “Always Rush A Gun And Run From A Knife”

I came across this practical nugget of wisdom from Teamster’s Union mafia don Jimmy Hoffa, as recounted from the death bed confessions of the legendary Mafia hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran: Jimmy said, “You always run away from a man…

April 25th, 2010 | Comments (25)

A Brief History Of Media Cover-Ups & Self-Censorship: Who’s Afraid of Russ Baker’s “Family Of Secrets”

On February 17, 1967, the newspapers ran stories about a sensational new investigation into JFK’s assassination, headed by a New Orleans DA named Jim Garrison, who called into question the “lone gunman” theory laying all the blame on Lee Harvey…

April 11th, 2010 | Comments (49)

Obama Beware: JFK’s Blood Watered The Crazy-Rightwing’s Tree Of Liberty

I was half-asleep the other day, watching this video interview with the late E. Howard Hunt– the Zelig of CIA spooks–talking about the JFK assassination when he mentioned that one of the main conspirators–CIA agent William Harvey–had a slogan on…

September 21st, 2009 | Comments (28)

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