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Byline: Edward Jay Epstein On September 14, 2016, days before the premiere of Oliver Stone's hagiographic movie Snowden, Human Rights Watch, the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International launched [...]

Lee Harvey Oswald fired the bullet that killed Kennedy. The physical evidence from the crime scenes, including ballistic matches, palm prints, and fiber analysis, which has been tested and retested [...]

More than a century before the advent of the Hollywood pseudodocumentary Karl Marx suggested that all great events and personalities in world history happen twice: 'the first time as tragedy, [...]

Byline: Edward Jay Epstein I was recently bemused to see that Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News host, managed in 2012 to parachute himself back in time to March 29, 1977 [...]

This article presents information on several recent socio-political developments. It is informed that the presidential election of the year 2000 was unjustified and as a result of which an illegitimate presidency is assuming power. It is opined that George W. Bush's inaugural has not eclipsed the subtext of illegitimacy but actually aggravated and enlarged it. Bush's elevation cannot be undone, but neither can its irregular foundations-- including the conduct of Florida's election and the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling-- be brushed aside.

Presents information on political leader Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov of the political party Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti of Soviet Union. Insight into the linguistic capabilities of Andropov; Comment on the childhood and educational qualifications of Andropov; Discourse on the lifestyle of Andropov.

Presents comments of scholars on the disclosure of names of United States Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) undercover agents by former CIA agent Philip Agee. Questions that should be asked by the U.S. Congress before the passage of Intelligence Identities Protection bill according to Thomas Powers; Arguments provided by Agee in defense of his own actions; Provisions of the Intelligence Identities protection bill according to Thomas I. Emerson.

Media events have a life of their own. Consider the launch of the so-called Tiananmen Papers. On January 7, Mike Wallace interviewed on CBS's 60 Minutes an anonymous person in [...]

AT THE OUTSET OF WORLD WAR II, the British security service, MI-5, identified and located a dozen German spies in Britain. Instead of trumpeting its success and seeking the usual [...]

The article focuses on Edward Snowden, former worker at the National Security Agency (NSA) of the U.S., who leaked secret files of NSA to some journalists. Topics discussed include the information that U.S. President Barack Obama has on Snowden, the sanctuary given to Snowden by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the alleged surveillance of telephone records by NSA. Also mentioned is the harm done by Snowden's leaks to the PRISM program designed to prevent the threat of terrorism.