by Peter Cullen Introduction This is the first in a planned series of articles that will deconstruct the Madeleine McCann story. The study of this story has traditionally been undertaken by those trying to solve the mystery of what happened […]
Writer George V. Caylor interviewed Sam (surname withheld for reasons that will become apparent,) a molecular biologist. George asked Sam about his work and Sam said he and his team were scientific ‘detectives,’ working with DNA and tracking down the […]
In 562AD, a little-known, virtually unrecorded, catastrophic natural disaster occurred, which almost completely destroyed the islands of Britain and Ireland, causing a terrible conflagration, destroying towns, villages and forests throughout and resulting in major widespread flooding as a result of […]
Vice President Henry Wallace was a plain-speaking farmer’s son from Iowa . . . and he fully expected to be re-nominated for Vice President at the Convention. The MI-6 agent and children’s author Roald Dahl, became a close ‘friend’ of […]
On the night of 12/13th February 1945, over 1000 allied bombers attacked a non-military, civilian target in Germany, the town of Dresden. Dresden was (and is still) famous for its china pottery industry and at that time towards the end of […]
Sunday, 7th December 1941 – Pearl Harbor, Hawaii “December 7th [the attack on Pearl Harbor] was… far from the shock it proved to the country in general. We had expected something of the sort for a long time.” Eleanor Roosevelt, NY […]
In May 1943, the ‘Dambusters Raid,’ was one of the most blatant examples of wartime spin and propaganda. RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson and his pilots of 617 Squadron were carefully selected to carry out a ‘daring and innovative’ bombing […]
We have been conditioned over the years to believe that during the Second World War the Germans and Japanese were the only ones capable of atrocities whilst ‘our boys’ were good, moral upstanding people who would never dream in a […]
The McCarthy ‘witch-hunt’ for the so-called ‘Reds under the beds’ during the Cold War was generally regarded as a deeply regrettable blot on US history, but the release of classified documents revealed that Joseph McCarthy was right after all about […]
Muammar Gaddafi, was certainly an unusual, so-called ‘dictator.’ In fact Libya under Gaddafi was Africa’s most prosperous democracy. Their government was much more responsive to the people than the United States, Britain or any other western democracy. Given the lies […]
