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The Times They Were A-Changin’ — book review
The Times They Were a-Changin’: 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn by Robert S McElvaine Hardcover $28.99 – ISBN13: 9781950994106 My long-time friend Bob McElvaine has crafted a highly original and deeply insightful analysis of events from 1964 and their direct connections to the present day’s […]
Nuclear Radiation Hazards of Burning Coal? (Yep!)
This is an article I wrote shortly after leaving my Washington D.C investigative reporting career and started teaching journalism at UCLA. Ironically, this could be a worse hazard to public health than climate change. Yet, it has been ignored. Read the entire article at this link (pdf): NuclearCoal-Perdue
Investigative Reporting: Breaking Koreagate With Shredded Documents — Busting Up a Betting Ring Run by U.S. Capitol Police
Tongsun Park’s Paper Jigsaw Puzzle Solved Betting Ring Found on Capitol Hill
How 2 Billion pennies explain why social distancing is so vital to defeating COVID-19 (And not killing Grandma)
Note: This article is a cross-post of a March 20, 2020 article reprinted by permission of the Stealth Syndromes Project which underpins a study approved by the University of California San Francisco Medical School’s Committee on Human Research. The study is funded by the Center for Research on Environmental Chemicals in Humans. These two exponential/geometric […]
Les Whitten – Tribute
See also: What The Argo Movie Got Wrong About Shredded Documents I originally posted the text, below on James Grady’s Facebook page the day after Les Whitten died. Jim is a good friend — and former investigative reporting co-conspirator who knew Les even better than I did. The last time I saw Les was March […]
Mississippi Memories and the new Civil Rights Museum in Jackson
The opening yesterday of the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum dredged up some memories, both old and new. And that led me to dig up the following article — “Mississippi: A Giant Step to Moderation” — written after I graduated from Cornell back when when I was sure I would never live in Mississippi again. […]
Mississippi: Remove The Confederate Flag From Your State Flag!
I am the great-great-great-grandson of U.S. Senator J. Z. George, a Confederate brigadier general, chief justice of the state supreme court and one of the chief architects of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890. That constitution which is still the governing document of the state, codified all of the elements of Jim Crow segregation, most notably […]
Among Maya Angelou’s Last Words: Praise For An Overlooked Freedom Summer Book
Among Maya Angelou’s last published writings is a tribute to a new, but mostly overlooked, book that sheds valuable context on Mississippi’s Freedom Summer – on its 50th commemoration. “The murders of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner rocked me to the core of my very being,” wrote Angelou in the foreward to My […]
#BringBackOur Girls – Outrage Tunnel Vision?
Outrage is a fickle thing. Yes, the kidnapping of an entire girl’s school is outrageous and wrong. Selling these young girls as brides is nothing less than than pimping for pedophilia. But long before #BringBackOurGirls made outrage all the current rage, millions of girls — many of them just 11 or 12 years old — […]
9-Year-Old Child Brides: Headed For OK In Iraq
Child brides are the worst of abuse all rolled into one beastly, immoral package: pedophilia, child abuse, slavery and the dehumanization of women. And now this disgusting and unholy practice is heading for legal approval in Iraq in the name of religion. According to Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education: “It is […]
