The Lost Left
As a lifelong leftist, the dismal political fortunes of the U.S. Left have long depressed me. A big part of this political failure, of course, comes from the fact that we tilt against the biggest capitalist superpower in the world. The elite in this country does anything and everything to hold onto and extend its power. But the Left itself is also to blame for its repeated failures to take power.
Let's talk about one key way. We don't protect our leaders. (Some on the Left don't even want leaders. Instead, they talk endlessly about "process" and "identity"-- that's how unserious about taking power they are.) Historically, when our leaders get too powerful, too threatening to the ruling elite, they kill them. Good liberals don't like to acknowledge this. But, yes, that's how the powerful in America have imposed their rule -- through the barrel of a gun.
Of course, the powerful prefer to assassinate the CHARACTER of oppositional leaders. The other way is messy and can produce martyrs. And since the elite control the Big Media in this country, that's easy.
There are countless supine lapdog journalists who eagerly will do the bidding of media moguls. They do it because that's their jobs. And that's what their colleagues, the rest of the news pack, think. They go along and get along. They never question authority. Frankly, they're not that brave or bright. They are, in fact, pathetic creatures. I know.
Look what the Big Media did to Senator Bernie Sanders when he threatened the Democratic Party's ruling elite. The New York Times, Washington Post etc. ran more than one NEWS article a day in their pages smearing him.
The corporate media is doing even more to tear down Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A barrage of hit pieces. Some subsidized by the pharmaceutical industry, one of his most powerful antagonists. Some produced by news organizations that essentially now function as propaganda arms of the national security state, another big target of Kennedy. Yes, in the land of the free, the CIA and other security agencies run our free press. (And we won't even get into Hollywood here, what movies and TV shows are allowed to say.)
We'll end where we started. The Left NEVER understood the Kennedy presidency, its sharp break from the Cold War orthodoxy of its day (allied with the highly lucrative military-industrial complex). The Left never understood why JFK was killed and why it still matters.
I have great admiration for progressive intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and investigative journalists like Seymour Hersh. But when it came to President Kennedy, they were clueless.
The Left's intelligentsia helped create a false and destructive narrative for the JFK assassination and cover-up. They argued that the killing did not much matter, because President Kennedy was a Cold Warrior and there was a continuity of power after he was violently removed. They were (and are) dead wrong.
It matters, too, that the Left is now gleefully participating in the character assassination of RFK Jr. When has a serious critic of corporate power ever climbed so close to the White House?
Some on the Left excuse and even applaud President Biden's perverse decision to withhold Secret Service protection from Kennedy. Despite the recent threats to his safety. Despite the controversy (some of it generated by the corporate media) that swirls around him. Despite what happened to his uncle and father.
Yes, the American Left is partly to blame for its chronic loser status. We fail to protect (or even appreciate) our leaders. We eat our own.
Noam Chomsky
Canceling Peace
I'm with New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg, who decries the war in Israel's stifling impact on free debate. On Friday, the 92NY, a big literary stage in Manhattan, canceled an event featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, who signed a public letter denouncing the "violence and destruction in Palestine" and has supported the boycott, divestment and sanction movement against Israel. Goldberg, a Jewish writer who sat down with Jerusalem-based journalist Nathan Thrall for a recent Brooklyn event, noted that he too has been widely canceled, even though his new book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salaman, is a humanitarian cry for peace in the region.
The cancel fever has also spread to Hollywood, where a top agent at Creative Artists Agency was demoted and forced to apologize after posting anti-Israel remarks on Instagram. Meanwhile, Hollywood celebrities are lauded for donating money to Israel and have even raised funds for the Israel Defense Forces, whose soldiers are now massing on Gaza's borders, an imminent invasion which is certain to cause horrific civilian casualties.
"The moment when dialogue is most fraught and bitter is when leaders most need to model it," Goldberg writes.
I don't know any creative person who thinks tribally and vengefully now. All of them blame Israel's brutal occupation of Palestinian land as well as the outburst of bestial violence by Hamas. They want peace and justice for both sides. And yet very few writers and artists and entertainers have the courage to speak their minds. We are experiencing a further clampdown on intellectual exchange and dissent. And it only silently fuels the bitterness and divisiveness that is tearing us apart.
The author Nathan Thrall
Apocalypse Now
Whether Israel's military targeted the Gaza hospital or whether it was hit by a rocket misfired by a jidahist group as the Israeli government claims, this massacre is what happens when you turn a densely-populated city into a war zone.
Netanyahu is a war criminal. The world knows it even if the U.S. media can't say it. President Biden has no business meeting with and reinforcing him. In recent months, Netanyahu's extremist government has been beleaguered from within. Brave Israeli citizens have poured into the streets, people who hold their rapidly fading democracy dear.
Who benefits from this war now? Netanyahu, of course -- and the like-minded zealots in Hamas and Iran. Their dominion is based on madness and mayhem.
Was it really an Israeli "intelligence failure" that allowed Hamas to commit their atrocities? Or did the Netanyahu government permit the outrageous provocation? Did the would-be dictator see a war in Gaza as the only way to rally Israeli citizens and the U.S. and Europe to his side?
Netanyahu and his fellow maniacs in the region are determined to draw the entire world into their apocalypse. In the wake of the hospital massacre, furious protests have erupted throughout the region. Israel is more isolated than ever.
It is incumbent on Western leaders to be leaders. Not just President Biden, but EVERYONE who seeks to occupy the White House. If you don't speak out, if you don't work actively for peace in the Middle East, you're no leader.
“Murder on the Starlight Express” The Final Act
In Washington D.C., our heroes dine with a sinister J. Edgar Hoover, meet with FDR consigliere Louis Howe, and try to solve the murder while rescuing the incoming Roosevelt administration. The dramatic conclusion of "Murder on the Starlight Express"...
“Murder on the Starlight Express” Act 3
As they hurtle toward FDR's first inauguration on board the Starlight Express, do our Hollywood heroes have what it takes to solve the murder most foul, even though it looks like a political crime? Act 3 of my serial...
Warner Bros. stars Joan Blondell and Lyle Talbot, passengers on the fateful train ride.
The Queen Is Dead
My New York Times commentary on the late Dianne Feinstein as mayor of San Francisco.
Dianne Feinstein at a memorial march a year after her colleagues were assassinated at San Francisco City Hall
“Murder on the Starlight Express” Act 2
The plot thickens as the Starlight Express chugs across Depression America for FDR's first inauguration. The Hollywood passengers engage in sexual hijinks, go to feverish movie premieres, attend an an ominous political rally .. and, yes, discover a murder that will change our hero's life forever... Btw, that's my father Lyle Talbot (far left) on the real Warner Bros. train, standing next to a blonde Bette Davis.
All Aboard! My Fiction Debut
Today, Alta, the magazine launched by Will Hearst, premieres my fiction debut -- a four-part serial called "Murder on the Starlight Express." The story is based on a real train trip that my father, actor Lyle Talbot, Bette Davis and other Warner Bros. stars undertook in 1933 from Hollywood to Washington DC, for FDR's first inauguration. I invent a murder and intrigue on the train, and dream up several leading players. But it was fun to immerse myself in this tumultuous history, and to invent (or highlight) dialogue for the likes of witty writer Dorothy Parker, gangster Spike O'Donnell, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters activist C. L. Dellums, villainous FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, and FDR's right-hand man Louis Howe.
I hope you agree it's a fun and gripping read...
Yes, Big Media, JFK and RFK WERE the Victims of CIA Plots
Please read this.
John F. Kennedy and CIA Director Allen Dulles, the master of assassinations
Sellin’ My Soul for Bullshit Pay
There's a reason that Oliver Anthony's angry song about about getting screwed by the "Rich Men North of Richmond" has hit number one in America. The song has been dismissed by liberal pundits as a Red State lament. But it's broader and deeper than that. (Anthony himself condemned Republicans for using his song.)
President Biden doesn't get it -- he thinks Bidenomics have made the voters happy. Trump gets it and is exploiting it. RFK Jr. -- the other candidate whom we've been told to hate -- also sees it. He's the ONLY Democratic leader who seems to. Everywhere he goes in the country, Bobby says, he sees suffering people. He wants to make the Anthony song his campaign anthem.
If we liberals and leftists on the coasts stay in our safe bubbles, we're doomed.
Let's wake up.
"Rich Men North Of Richmond"
I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away
It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is
Livin' in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond
I wish politicians would look out for miners
And not just minors on an island somewhere
Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat
And the obese milkin' welfare
Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground
'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down
Lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is
Livin' in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond
I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay
Oliver Anthony
Donald Trump: The Fire Next Time?
Donald Trump ended his remarkable conversation with Tucker Carlson on X by observing there was a dangerous combination of "passion and hatred" out there "because of what they've done to our country." Although it will further inflame many of my liberal Facebook friends, I've come to oppose the four court cases aimed at Trump. As you know, I adamantly oppose Donald Trump and hope that the American voters reject him again if he's the Republican nominee in 2024. But I'm also an adamant small "d" democrat. Trump enjoys the passionate political support of much of the electorate. In fact, each time he's indicted, his poll numbers have gone up. The legal crusade against him is actually boosting his political support.
I think it's best for our bitterly divided country if Donald Trump is beaten fairly and squarely at the ballot box instead of in a courtroom.
For a long time now, the Democratic Party (which I've belonged to my entire voting life) has been increasingly taken over by suburban professionals -- and lately (and more worryingly) by Wall Street and the war industry. As a result, our party -- unsurprisingly -- has largely abandoned working people and the poor, who have gone in large numbers to the Republicans, including Trump.
This is a disastrous trend -- one that is only fortified by Trump's accusation that he is being unfairly singled out for challenging an election (which many Democratic candidates have also done).
That's why his fate should be in the hands of voters, not judges and juries.
Is Donald Trump "above the law." Yes, in a sense he is. He is far and away the most popular Republican presidential candidate. If the "liberal elites" are seen throwing him behind bars, I worry about the future of our country. Republicans could subject Democratic leaders to the same legal ordeals. Already, Rep. Jim Jordan, chair of the House committee that is investigating the "weaponization" of the federal government against critics, has targeted Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis, following her indictment of Trump.
This legal crusade against Trump will not end well.
If Trump is the Republican presidential nominee next year, we need to talk to our fellow Americans, we need to convince them he's taking the country in the wrong direction.
We need to defeat him the old-fashioned way. We need to work our asses off.
John Warnock’s Smile
When John Warnock -- who cofounded (with Chuck Geschke) the software giant Adobe — died at 82 last weekend, he was eulogized in the press for his role in creating Photoshop and other hugely popular publishing and design tools. “A technological genius.” That’s how Warnock was remembered primarily -- almost exclusively. But he was more than that. He studied philosophy at the University of Utah, he collected antiquarian books, he loved (and supported) movies. And he recognized early on that the Web would be a popular communications medium. His investment brought Salon, my publishing venture, to life.
Salon was a co-creation of San Francisco's edgy editorial and artistic talent and Silicon Valley's financial prowess. But I saw it as something more important than that, and so did John.
Warnock believed deeply in a rambunctiously free press. And, as Salon's major investor, he allowed me and my colleagues to create an independent, often controversial publication.
John was a very intelligent man -- and when he walked into the Salon office for a board meeting or took me to lunch, I knew that I would have to justify the expenditure of his money. But he also stood by us during the political and financial hard times.
When, for instance, we broke with the media establishment and investigated the nemesis of President Bill Clinton -- Ken Starr and his vast right-wing conspiracy -- not because we loved Clinton, but because we knew the alternative (New Gingrich) was even worse. The Wall Street Journal editorialized against us (condemning Warnock as our principal investor), Republican leaders threatened to sic the FBI on us, a bomb threat forced us to empty our office, and we were targeted by ad boycotts and tech sabotage.
Throughout all of these dark times, John Warnock never once pressured me to go easier, to temper our editorial crusades. He was a brave and good man.
But it's his warm smile I'll always remember. It always reassured me: you'll get this Internet thing right, you'll figure it out, you'll get to breakeven. And, in the meantime, you're doing some great journalism. I'm proud of you.
His smile meant the world to me. I wish I could've seen it one more time.
John Warnock
The New York Times Finally Gets to the Bottom of the JFK Mystery!
Thank God! The New York Times -- which, as you know, is the voice of God -- has finally put the JFK mystery to rest. According to Times reporter Elizabeth A. Harris, in her profile of contrarian book publisher Tony Lyons ("contrarian" means he still believes in free speech), "There is no evidence that the U.S. government was involved in President Kennedy’s assassination."
Whew! That's a relief. Harris, of course, spent years investigating the JFK assassination. Didn't she?
Harris knows that the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in its final report in 1979 that there was a "conspiracy" in President Kennedy's murder, right?
She reviewed all the key sources and evidence and read the well-documented books that revealed CIA involvement in the plot, right?
And I'm sure that Harris has seen the nearly 5,000 JFK documents that the CIA is still hiding, against the law -- including the travel records of CIA assassinations chief William Harvey, who was spotted by his deputy flying from his Rome station to Dallas in the days before Kennedy was killed there? (The Harvey records I tried to legally obtain while researching The Devil's Chessboard, but was blocked by the CIA, even though Harvey is long dead.)
The newspaper of record would NEVER let one of its reporters blithely dismiss U.S. government involvement in the crime of the 20th Century unless she had first done her due diligence.
Right?
Now that the New York Times has spoken (again) on this fraught subject, we can all go back to our restful slumber. That's what the mainstream media is for -- to reassure our troubled minds. To put us to sleep.
P.S. Below is President Kennedy with General Curtis LeMay, chief of the Air Force. LeMay thought the U.S. could "win" a nuclear war. Really. He thought Kennedy was "weak." Kennedy thought he was a "madman." Whoops! I hate to wake you up.
Life Is Very Short and There’s No Time…
Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend.
I have always thought that it's a crime,
So I will ask you once again.
"We Can Work It Out” Lennon & McCartney
Out here in the far West, people are running into the ocean to escape the flames from the wildfires devouring Maui. Speaking of the ocean itself, the water is getting a lot hotter here in Northern California. And Arizona? Forget about it. It burned up weeks ago.
And that's the weather report from here. How's YOUR neck of the woods this extremely hot summer?
Meanwhile, as the world burns, President Joe Biden is escalating his feud with the two powerful nations which could make the biggest difference in a global climate alliance: China and Russia. Brilliant, visionary leadership.
But we have bigger fish to fry these days.
We're busy prosecuting Trump for his crimes. The only problem with this strategy is that Trump's multiple indictments -- including the last big one, for trying to steal the 2020 presidential election -- is just making Trump MORE popular with Republican voters, who think he's being politically persecuted. (Read the lead editorial in today's NYT by Harvard law professor and Hoover Institution fellow -- but anti-Trumper -- Jack Goldsmith, "The Prosecution of Trump May Have Terrible Consequences.")
Then there's the Biden problem. If you're a worried Democrat like me, the president is doddering and old and pro-war and a weak reelection candidate. He could very well hand over the White House next year... to Donald Trump!
But no Democratic office-holder has the guts to break party ranks and challenge Biden in the primaries. The "leaders" of the party are cowardly careerists.
Only Bobby Kennedy Jr. has the necessary courage. And it takes courage to go up against the venomous DNC and the corporate powers behind it. President Biden will not even order the Secret Service to protect RFK Jr. -- despite what happened to his father when he ran in 1968. Even Bobby-haters can question the wisdom and compassion of THAT decision.
And so, as humanity torches itself this summer, we find myriad things to argue about -- none of them related to the rapidly escalating climate crisis.
But don't worry -- Big Tech will save us. Won't it? Oh, that's right, the tech industry is now enamored with AI, which uses HUGE amounts of energy, and driverless cars.
Robot cars have flooded the streets of San Francisco, and some city officials and activists have cried "halt" to Google and GM's plans for the human-less vehicles to start taking passengers. It seems the taxi industry, firefighters, public transit advocates and concerned citizens are fretting about unemployment, traffic congestion, emergency mishaps and vehicular manslaughter.
Oh, well, there is always resistance to technological progress. Or as impatient Big Tech investor Garry Tan announced on YouTube, the city officials standing in the way of automated cars are "ideologically driven" and "hate technologies."
Try to see it HIS way. True, AI and driverless cars will put millions out of work and worsen the climate meltdown. But, hey, people like him will make a killing!
I tried to make my post today fun and upbeat. I watched The Last Waltz yesterday evening in honor of Robbie Robertson. I once sat next to his entourage in a seaside cafe in Italy, after they came ashore from their docked yacht. He was with Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg. They seemed to be having fun -- who wouldn't that moonlit night in Portofino? And he looked, at age 72, fabulous.
Robbie Robertson in The Last Waltz
How Did Rolling Stone Become So Uncool?
These and other media mysteries explained in my new weekly column in The Kennedy Beacon, “All the News the CIA Sees Fit to Print.”
Strike or Die
My father, Lyle Talbot, was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild, I'm proud to say. Ninety years ago, in 1933, Lyle and actors like Boris Karloff and Jimmy Cagney and Humphrey Bogart organized SAG in defiance of the all-powerful studios, which dictated the long hours of their work days as well as their personal lives. (Warner Bros. -- the studio where my father was under contract -- objected strongly when my father began dating Lina Basquette, the widow of studio co-founder Sam Warner. He told the WB executives to get lost and they tried to end his career.)
I remember Lyle telling us four kids how he and the other actors had to sneak down alleys to avoid studio spies and hold union meetings.
Lyle would be very proud of the current SAG-AFTRA strike, which comes at a make-or-break moment for actors. Most of the union's 100,000-plus members struggle to make a living now, taking odd jobs to stay afloat. The strike is imposing even tougher austerity on them, but they realize there is no future for them if robotic, profit-obsessed Big Tech and AI continue to take over the entertainment industry.
Let's hear it for the actors' courage and grit. Let's hear it for human talent.
My father, Lyle Talbot, and Barbara Stanwyck
Where Was Allen?
As my book The Devil's Chessboard observed, former CIA director Allen Dulles spent the fateful weekend of November 22, 1963 -- when President Kennedy was assassinated and Lee Harvey Oswald was silenced two days later -- at Camp Peary, a top-secret CIA facility in northern Virginia known as "The Farm." What the hell was Dulles -- the disgraced spymaster fired by JFK two years earlier, after the CIA's disastrous invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs -- doing at a clandestine CIA facility that weekend?
I raised that relevant question after seeing Dulles's own calendar, which showed that's where he was. (Thanks to JFK researcher Lisa Pease for alerting me to these pages.) But then, after my book was published, something strange happened. The Dulles calendar pages indicating his whereabouts that weekend, which are kept along with his other papers at the Princeton University Library, disappeared. Poof!
Now through the diligent research of a Princeton archivist and a Kennedy scholar, those daybook pages have been dug up. Whether they disappeared for nefarious reasons or there is a benign explanation, the question remains: what the hell was Allen Dulles doing at a secret CIA post that weekend?
The CIA refuses to comment. Just like the agency still illegally withholds almost 5,000 JFK documents. What are the spooks still hiding six decades after the assassination?
President-elect Kennedy with CIA Director Allen Dulles. Richard Bissell, the spymaster’s deputy—also fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs debacle—looms over them.
A Better Place
Some human beings sacrifice themselves for all our good. One such person is young Greta Thunberg (below), who keeps blocking traffic in Sweden -- and keeps getting arrested -- because she wants the energy industry to stop profiting from human extinction. As the world burns this summer, Greta found herself in court again. "Why is it us -- who are taking action in line with science to stop the fossil industry -- who face legal consequences, when the fossil industry continues to destroy the chance for people to live safe and worthy lives?"
Good question. Here's another good one, which Thunberg posed to one of the the cops who arrested her. She asked him during the court proceedings what he thought a person should do to slow down the climate crisis, which is killing life on the planet. Good question, he replied -- admitting that he didn't have a good answer.
Julian Assange is another person who is sacrificing for all of us. He is rotting in UK's Belmarsh Prison, awaiting extradition to the U.S. for allegedly violating the reactionary, World War I-era U.S. Espionage Act. What heinous act did the Australian commit? His Wikileaks exposed the war crimes -- torture, drone assassination -- that U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning could not witness in silence. Manning has since been pardoned, but Assange is still behind bars.
The Trump administration, which extended the Espionage Act to journalists, even contemplated killing Assange. Thanks to this 2021 investigative report in Yahoo News (whose authors could be prosecuted in the future), we learned that Trump's CIA director Mike Pompeo had "blood in the eye" for Assange.
Once upon a time, Wikileaks was considered cool by its big media partners like the New York Times and The Guardian, which won prizes off Assange's revelations. Then they conveniently forgot about him when the national security state cracked down on him. Now the mainstream media has belatedly rushed to defend him, after they realized that their journalists' own freedom is at stake.
The problem, as Assange's wife and attorney Stella Assange points out in this thoughtful interview, is that the U.S. national security state is more powerful now and more impervious to criticism.
We, too, are part of this official intransigence. We go uncomplainingly to our extermination, or complacently observe that of our children, grandchildren or friends. Of course, we are quick to see the flaws in Thunberg or Assange -- or Kennedy -- because the media told us about them. The people who are our saviors are really our enemies. The New York Times said so. So did NPR. And Rolling Stone. Let's get mad at them, these critics -- instead of Big Oil or Wall Street or the government.
And so the frogs boil slowly in the pot. But it's more rapidly lately. Hey, isn't it getting hot in here? (At least we have Greta and Julian and RFK Jr. to argue about -- they're wack jobs, right?)
Greta Thunberg gets arrested in Sweden for protesting human extinction.
As the World Burns
It's summer, folks! Some of us are shivering in the wind and fog (like those of us in San Francisco), while most of the world boils alive. I deeply sympathize with all those heat-stroked people in the Southwest who are suffering historic temperature spikes -- and believe me, I feel your pain, since here in California we have weathered countless wildfires (though not so much so far this season). But I have one question for you: why do you keep electing politicians who are pawns of the fossil fuel industry? The industry that's brought you this global warming hell?
These corporate and political leaders should be behind bars, not enjoying their wealth somewhere on Earth that's not sizzling.
Hey, but that's not a laid-back thought. It's summertime and the living is easy. I'll be posting less often here.
Meanwhile, here in the United States, the empire staggers on and another presidential race grinds on. No Democratic Party politician had the guts to challenge geriatric, war-obsessed Joe Biden, so RFK Jr. jumped in. He quickly hit 20 points in the polls -- and he quickly drew daily fire from the establishment media and its masters.
You can read my take on this vicious media carnival here.
The Lost Country
It's all about speaking truth to power, if you run for public office today. Who does that?
Bobby Kennedy Jr. just challenged President Biden's decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. Do you know what those weapons do to the human body, including the large percentage of unexploded ordnance found by children? That's why most of the world has banned cluster bombs. As RFK Jr. demanded to know, what has Biden -- who banned export of the bombs to Israel on humanitarian grounds -- done with his conscience?
Btw, if you get all hot and bothered about Bobby's presidential campaign because you keep seeing attacks on him in the New York Times and other corporate media outlets, please do yourself a favor and watch this long, recent interview with him.
Lex Fridman, the podcast interviewer, is a Russian-American computer scientist. His father is a physics professor who was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. Fridman reveres science, engineering and the rational mind.
This interview ranges from the war in Ukraine, the assassination of JFK and his legacy, Jung, Camus and existentialism, Big Pharma, Dr. Anthony Fauci, vaccine policy, RFK Jr.'s addiction history and his health regimen, and the meaning of God. You've never heard a presidential candidate talk this way. You've never heard one even sit for a two-and-half-hour conversation.
Before you voice your opinions of RFK Jr. based on what the media tells you to think, please take the time to listen to him in his own words:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.