This section includes many articles on the news I wrote beginning in 1996 after my Vince Foster series ran into too many national security information blackouts for satisfactory completion. Most of the articles involve one or another of the principal topics introduced in "The End of Ordinary Money." The unifying theme is individual freedom and privacy in a world of government malfeasance, government surveillance, and increasing tyranny.
In addition to my own articles, I have collected a lot of hard-to-find material written by others. Within each news section, the articles are mostly listed chronologically.
MEDIA
The Internet and the Death of the News
Monopoly
Life without a priestly caste of editors.
60 Minutes Attacks Area 51!
Leslie Stahl comes to Reno, while Mike
Wallace fondles his cash.
How Much is Sidney Blumenthal's Reputation
Worth?
Calculation of the Drudge Report damage to a sleazy smear
artist.
SPOOKS
Who is Leo Wanta?
The collapse of the Russian ruble. Bill
Clinton's short-term notes.
CIA Proprietary Companies?
Cash stashed for George Bush, Bill Casey, Vince Foster, Bill
Clinton--and others living and dead?
Interview with Chip Tatum
Terry Nelson, Montana Drugs, Chuck Hayes, etc.
Comment on PROMIS article
Clueless con man discovers the past.
FIN DE SIECLE
ECONOMIC COMMENTARY
Here Come the Zombies
How governments turn bankers into rich
gamblers.
Credit Lyonnais & L.F. Rothschild Ready to
Topple
Bad loans and bodies in the French laundry.
History of the Euro
The single European currency.
The Asian Financial Crisis in Perspective
The bubble rotation.
And Now, the Financial Apocalypse
When pundits say "the expansion will last forever," the end is
near.
Stocks and Bonds Go Down Together
The peculiar economics of Mafia Bonds.
The Collapse of the New World Order
Visions of paradise and the collapse of the Global Free Lunch.
The Credit Crunch
The core of the July-October 1997 crash.
The Eye of the Storm
The Global Free Lunch is back. Oh, Joy!
Copper-Bottom Pricing
How to price commodity spread options with
negative strikes.
THE WHITE HOUSE BIG BROTHER DATA BASE
The White House "Big Brother" Data Base & How
Jackson Stephens Precipitated a Banking Crisis
The role of Jackson Stephen's software firm Systematics in
creating security holes both in White House and commercial banking
software.
The White House Downloaded
And mad as hell about it, too.
Will Filegate Bring Down the FBI?
The FBI turned over about 2045 files to the White House.
Is the WHODB Clinton's Frankenstein Monster?
Bill's computers watch Bill.
Webb Hubbell and Big Brother (WHODB)
Artificial intelligence, a payoff, a PROMIS conversion, a fired
Secret Service agent.
THE CRIMES OF THE FBI
Was Freeh Fired?--Or Is It Only a Glitch in the
FBI's Files?
FBI Director Louis Freeh fails to receive a paycheck because the
computer says he was terminated, and the 101 Airborne arrives in
Saudia Arabia. (On their way to Syria?)
The FBI and Terrorism
More crimes of the FBI.
The Dickheads are Still Desperate
Why Congress should withdraw all funding from the FBI.
DOJ Report on FBI Crime Lab
How to lie with forensics.
Open Letter to Louis Freeh on Montana Drugs
G-men who smuggle drugs.
Interim Report on the Crash of TWA Flight
800 and the Actions of the NTSB and the FBI
The report of Commander William S.
Donaldson, USN Ret. in cooperation with
Associated Retired
Aviation Professionals.
ARTICLES ABOUT IRS EMPLOYEES SELLING COCAINE & TAXPAYER FILES
Is the IRS Dealing Crack?
Get your tax refund in a baggie, and visit two governors going
to jail.
IRS Files for Sale
Buy someone's IRS file for $500.
Join the IRS: Deal Crack with Pay!
Cocaine-dealing IRS employees still on the payroll.
ARTICLES ABOUT THE CRIMINAL PRESIDENCY
Bill Clinton's Cocaine Habit
Our President does five lines a day.
Clinton & Iran
A high-level Democratic delegation asks
Clinton not to run again for President. Israeli radio says U.S. to
bomb Iranian targets.
The Presidential Crisis
The present danger in Presidential politics.
Bill Clinton and the Missing $100 Million
General Noriega, Barry Seal, and Bill
Clinton become suspects regarding millions in missing cocaine money.
October Surprises
Clinton, Dole, Starr, Tucker, Patton, Credit Lyonnais, and
Pulsar Data Systems may all have October Surprises.
Happy Birthday, Mr President!
Clinton turns fifty.
The Monster Threatens Starr
Temper tantrums.
How to Create a War
First find some Belgian--er, Kurdish babies, then call in Hill &
Knowlton.
Clinton Flips a Coin and Bombs Iraq
Turning the military budget into a political
slush fund.
Brother Bill's Bad Week
Clinton rearranges Iraqi sand, the FBI sucks wind, and the
crematorium at Mena lurks in the shadows.
Hillary Clinton Puts Out a Contract on Dick
Morris
Hillary plots to murder her competition,
using government thugs from I-3.
Top Ten Reasons Bill Clinton Resigned
Read these, then make up your own.
Clinton in a Box
Clinton has lost the war, both home and
abroad.
What Happened to the Football?
Did someone take the nuclear trigger away from Bill Clinton?
Tenacious Tentacles
The cozy world of Bill Clinton, Jackson
Stephens, and Mochtar Riady.
Hillary Clinton, Lafarge, and Kennametal
Hillary helps Richard Mellon Scaife and Jackson Stephens arm
Iraq.
Hail to the Cokehead
Walking a mile in Bill Clinton's shoes.
What Election?
Nothing has changed with respect to Clinton's problems.
What if Clinton Never Returned?
Some wishful thinking.
More Top Ten Reasons Bill Clinton Resigned
Fun things to say at the Inaugural Ball.
Sex with Hillary
What one has to do to get a press
conference.
Kenneth Starr's Departure Could be Clintons'
Worst Nightmare
By John Crudele.
The White House Cult
Now it can be told.
Mexican Madness
Pendejo in paradise.
RON BROWN
Ron Brown's Loose Lips Seal His Fate
More than meets the eye in the crash of Brown's plane.
MISCELLANEOUS
Saint Colby and the Fifth Column
Damage control on the Vince Foster story, and why the death of
former CIA director William Colby is not an occasion for tears.
Some Observations on the Non-News
The dereliction of the journalism
profession, the FBI can't count files, the Montana drug operation,
NSA attacks on my Internet posts, and the heroic efforts of Kenneth
Starr.
How to Launder Money in the Copper Market
(1)
Sumitomo services the heroin trade. Intended
to become a series.
Woodward's Wayward Book
Why Bob Woodward's book The Choice is particularly ill-timed.
The Clinton Crash
The Clinton administration has imprudently
taken credit for much that is taking place in the economy. How would
they deal with a stock market crash? Also mentions the banking
problems created by alterations in the money flows associated with
the drug and arms trade.
Is the CIA Trying for a Piece of Fifth
Column Action?
Contact fails to contact the Fifth Column.
The Governor of Kentucky to be Indicted Soon?
Operation BOPTROT and Casey's plan to turn
Russian soldiers into drug addicts.
Dole Dumps an Old Friend and Lies About His
Finances
Why Dole resembles Clinton.
The Cracks in Clinton's Economy
John Deutch and Alan Greenspan worry about
stock declines.
The Fifth Column Gets Press
And the Prez worries Dick Morris might squeal.
The Uses of Terrorism
The trade-off between guns and
buttering-up-voters.
The Sniffles of Susan
Susan McDougal, following bad legal advice, becomes a martyr
without a cause.
The Symbiosis of Alan Greenspan and Bill
Clinton
Why is the Federal Reserve illegally
intervening in the stock market?
Pinnacle Bank--The Usual Suspects
Banking, the Arkansas way.
Wars and Rumors of War
Iraq, I3, and why Bill won't pardon Susan.
Musings
Presidential pardons and all that.
Bill's Blow, Stock Blowoffs, and Millennial
Madness
The future sucks.
Five Indictments of the Mass Media
The alcoholic press consumes a fifth.
The Dickheads Are Getting Desperate
Federal agents show up in Nancy, Kentucky.
Laundering Numbers
Sumitomo & FBI files: the media can't count.
The Starr Detractors
As the worm squirms. Another chorus of "no
more indictments".
The Other Starr Detractors
Chris Ruddy and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.
The Joke Is on You
The media releases us from the burden of
political truth.
October Country
That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars,
coal-bins, closets, attics.
General Convicted for Political Fund-Raising
The politics of promotion.
The Coke Was Stored in Hangars 4 and 5
Cocaine distribution from the Ilo Pango Air Force Base, and the
roles of the CIA, NSA,
and the Mossad.
The Starr Indictments: The Media Wrong Again
And that's not all the media is wrong about.
Bye Bye, Miss American Pie
Lemmings and stock market calculations.
Al Gore as President
And Tipper as FLOTUS.
Sticky Fingers at the Justice Department and
U.S. Customs
The government steals and doesn't pay its bills.
Earl Brian Convicted in California
The chief marketeer of the PROMIS software
is convicted of financial fraud.
The Starr Indictments II
Trick or treat.
Murder and Drugs in Arkansas
The FBI sits on evidence in a drug-related
murder.
Ten Predictions & Postmortem
My March 1996 predictions and postmortem comment.
Twenty Predictions for 1997
Sixscore thousand persons that cannot
discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much
cattle.