Dick Russell

With their two voices alternating throughout the telling, this is the true story of a unique relationship that manages to transcend today’s racial and cultural divide. One is a successful Caucasian author of numerous non-fiction books who shares a home with lifelong friends in the Hollywood Hills. The other is an African American youth who grew up robbing people on the streets of downtown Los Angeles to survive, while stealing books from the library to become a savant in ancient mythology. Fifty years apart in age, they fall accidentally (or by fate) into each other’s lives at a time of transition for both. It’s a tale of two initiations: the young genius with a father in jail and a mother on drugs, suddenly recognized for his potential by a society he has scorned, and the unexpected mentor who becomes a welcomed denizen of a neighborhood he’s never entered before. Recounting experiences past and present from their differing points of view, Russ and Romeo move far beyond the stereotypes of well-intentioned white liberal and angry black youth. Amid a backdrop of contemporary issues impacting the inner city, their initiations are fraught with risk and revelation, including the doubts, fears and often the seeming impossibility of finding common ground. Arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, facing a foster care system that abused him and now seeks to claim his newborn child, Romeo learns to trust Russ’s coming to his aid. Russ puts his career and perhaps his freedom on the line over what he perceives as injustice. Their mutual leap into the unknown ultimately comes to encompass a spiritual dimension that includes shamanic divination and psychedelic experience. What began with Romeo’s remarkable recitation from Homer’s Odyssey turns into a modern-day enactment of its themes. Ultimately, this is a mysterious and timeless story about Destiny and Love.

Intimate, in-depth portraits, interviews, and essays of America's black leaders—from the founding of the nation and Frederick Douglass to the 2008 presidential race and Barack Obama. Each figure is interconnected with the next, exploring themes of family and intergenerational community, spirituality, and diligence, activism, and struggle. These remarkable portraits reveal the true spirit of the American pioneers who forged much of the heart of this nation, but whose achievements have been largely overlooked. New York Times bestselling author Dick Russell examines the lives of musicians, civil rights leaders, philosophers, writers, and actors including Duke Ellington, Will Marion Cook, Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Albert Murray, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Romare Bearden. Concluding with a list of sources and suggested reading, this fascinating and vibrant look at American history is a must for any collection.

They’re Here!: UFOs, UAPS, and US is an investigative journalist’s odyssey visiting with experts in various related fields—seeking to separate truth from fiction and raising questions for consideration around what is destined to become the biggest story of our time. Starting with the ancient past and reviewing today’s scientific explorations, the book profiles whistleblowers, archaeologists, scientists, abductees, and many others in order to present a compelling and convincing case that we are not alone.

Den verklige RFK jr är en biografi om Robert F. Kennedy jr. Den skildrar hans händelserika liv alltifrån uppväxten i USA:s mest berömda politiska familj till tillkännagivan­det av hans presidentkandidatur. Vem är då RFK jr mannen som utmanar Joe Biden och Donald Trump om att bli Förenta staternas näste president? Robert Francis Kennedy junior, född 1954, har gjort sig känd som en framstående jurist på miljö- och läkemedelsområdet. Genom att stämma eller hota att stämma bolag som förorenar marker och vattendrag eller använder otillåtna gifter i mediciner har han vunnit en rad stora och uppmärksammade mål. Bland annat var Kennedy huvudombud i de omfattande processerna mot Dupont om före­tagets miljöförstöring i West Virginia och mot Monsanto om de skador som företagets ogräsbekämpningsmedel Roundup orsakat. RFK jr har också gjort sig känd som en skicklig organisatör och är ­grun­­dare av de två internationellt inflytelserika organisationerna Waterkeeper ­Alli­ance världens största vattenskyddsorganisation och Childrens Health ­De­fense, en förening med syftet att stoppa epide­­min av barnsjuk­domar. I Dick Russells bok får Kennedys yrkesmässiga liv stort utrymme, men här behandlas också mer privata sidor, som RFK jr:s kamp för att bli fri från alkohol- och drogmissbruk och hur hans djupa katolska tro gett honom inre styrka. RFK jr berättar om sina upplevelser av morden på sin far 1968 och sin farbror 1963 och hur dessa erfarenheter präglat honom. I ett kapitel återger han hur han började tvivla på de officiella versionerna av hur de två morden gick till, vilket ledde honom till att besöka Sirhan Sirhan, som dömts för mordet på hans far, i fängelset. Slutligen skildras också hur RFK jr, mycket motvilligt, kom att intressera sig för vacciner och varför detta har väckt sådant motstånd. Media och makthavare anklagar honom för att vara »antivaxxare«. RFK jr som själv tagit många vacciner anser sig inte vara emot vacciner i sig, utan det han vänder sig mot är vacciner som är otillräckligt testade eller har svåra biverkningar. Efter att RFK jr hade publicerat en vaccinkritisk artikel i Rolling Stone och Salon förändrades hans liv och samhällsposition drastiskt. Från att ha varit en uppburen medlem av den politiska ­eliten och en ­efter­­frå­gad kommen­tator i de stora tidningarna blev han nu närmast en utstött. En ­massiv censur- och svartmål­ningskampanj inleddes som pågår än idag. Men kritikstormen har inte fått RFK jr att tystna och vika ner sig. Den har tvärtom fått honom att bredda och intensifiera sitt opi­nions­bildande engagemang för folkhälsa och ytt­randefrihet. Sedan april 2023 har hans enga­gemang ett nytt mål: att tillträda ­världens mäk­tigaste ämbete. »RFK jr är en av de modigaste och mest imponerande människor jag ­nå­gon­sin mött.« Tucker Carlson »Jag skäms över de tankar jag tidigare hade om Bobby Kennedy jr. Nu inser jag att de var baserade på skandalösa mediala lögner och propagandaattacker. Efter att ha lärt ­känna honom, och många av de djupt sakkunniga och engagerade personerna i Childrens Health Defence, är det min övertygelse att historien kommer att se honom som en av de största amerikanska statsmännen.« Pierre Kory »Jag har lagt ner 37 år på att försöka få ut kvicksilvret ur fisk. Ingen kallar mig anti-fisk. Jag har lagt ner 37 år på att försöka få ut bekämpningsmedlen ur mat. Ingen kallar mig anti-mat. Jag har lagt ner 37 år på att få ut de fossila bränslena ur bilar. Ingen kallar mig anti-energi. Jag är anti-dumhet. Jag är emot dålig vetenskap och för god, robust vetenskap, och för hederliga tillsynsmyndigheter. Idag har vi ingenting av detta.« Robert F. Kennedy jr »Det är svårt att leva i USA och inte ha en negativ bild av Robert F. Kennedy jr. Under större delen av sitt vuxna liv var han känd som landets främsta förkämpe för miljön, men detta har på senare år kommit i skymundan av massmedias stämpling av honom som antivaxxare och spridare av desinformation. Många kontroversiella personer som har utsatts för omfattande attacker försvinner från offentligheten och återgår till sina bekväma liv. Men inte Kennedy. Han har utstått smutskastning från ledande tidningar och tidskrifter. Hans böcker har censurerats mer än några andra. Han har smädats, uteslutits från mediala plattformar och frysts ute. Men han försvinner inte. Efter att ha ägnat 40 år åt att ta sig an landets värsta miljöförstörare och att kämpa mot storföretagens inflytande över tillsynsmyndigheter och media, framträder han nu som förkämpe för demokratin, i en tid då den är mer hotad än någonsin.« Dick Russell Dick Russell är författare till 15 sakprosaböcker inklusive tre New York Times-bästsäljare. Hans bok Eye of the Whale utsågs till »årets bästa bok« av tre stora amerikanska tidningar.

Updated with an Epilogue examining new evidence about the actual perpetrators. Using newly declassified information, Dick Russell builds on four decades of painstaking research in On the Trail of the JFK Assassins, offering one of the most comprehensive and authoritative examinations of the assassination of our thirty-fifth president. Included are revelations, such as the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald was subjected to "mind control," Russell's personal encounter inside the KGB headquarters, and new information pinpointing the identity of the shooters and who was behind them. Russell here comes closer than ever to answering the ultimate question: Who killed JFK?

An epic biography filled with drama, conflict, and surmounted challenges. The Real RFK Jr. is an intimate biographical portrait examining the controversial activist's journey from anguish and addiction to becoming the country's leading environmental champion fighting government corruption, corporate greed, and a captured media. Written by his longtime colleague Dick Russell, the biography also exposes the misconceptions and explains the rationale behind Kennedy's campaign to protect public health. Provided exclusive source material, including access to Kennedy's unpublished writings and personal journals, the author conducted dozens of interviews with him as well as numerous friends and associates. Russell delves into everything from Kennedy's sometimes death-defying river rafting adventures to his pioneering legal cases against polluters such as Smithfield Foods and Monsanto, while founding the world's largest water protection group. The Real RFK Jr. also examines Kennedy's pursuit of the truth about the assassinations of his father and uncle, the wrongful murder conviction of his cousin, and the false narratives around the COVID-19 pandemic.

James Hillman, who died in 2011 at the age of eighty-five, has been described by poet Robert Bly as "the most lively and original psychologist" of the twentieth century. Based on author Dick Russell's interviews with Hillman and dozens of people who knew him, Volume Two of The Life and Ideas of James Hillman takes up Hillman's mid-life when he set about returning psychology to its Soul-rich roots in Greek mythology and Renaissance esotericism. From his base teaching at Zurich's Jung Institute, we follow Hillman's growing international prominence as a maverick in the field, coinciding with his relationship and eventual marriage to Patricia Berry. They would be instrumental in formulating Archetypal Psychology, along with a group of young compatriots in what became known as Spring House. The new ideas taking shape moved psychology away from the dominant scientific/medical model with its focus on treating the isolated individual, expanding into the fertile realm of culture and the imagination. Amid prodigious writings and lectures, Hillman made mythology and even alchemy relevant to our times. Delivering the prestigious Terry Lectures at Yale and being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Hillman returned to America after living primarily in Europe for thirty years. To the surprise of many, he settled in Dallas and helped found an Institute of Humanities and Culture while taking up how to re-imagine city planning. Equally surprising was Hillman's subsequent move to rural Connecticut, where he and Pat Berry resided in a nineteenth-century farmhouse. Starting in the mid-'80s, Hillman became a pioneering teacher in the mythopoetic men's movement alongside Robert Bly and Michael Meade--where deep talk about fathers and sons and male-female relationships offered a new kind of group therapy, a cultural therapy. As Thomas Moore said of Hillman, he possessed a "genius for taking any theme and shedding serious fresh light on it." Along the way, Hillman's insights came to encompass all of the arts, a "poetic basis of mind" that connected him to many of the most influential artists and thinkers of the modern era.

New York Times Bestseller Now with five additional documents and a new introduction, let Governor Jesse Ventura take you through the paperwork that the US government tried to keep secret from the world--JFK and Vietnam, chemical and biological warfare, Gulf War illness, warnings about 9/11, and more The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullshit, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Jesse Ventura, the ultimate non-partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and bestselling author Dick Russell walk readers through sixty-three of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. Witness as he breaks open the vault, revealing the truth about: The CIA's top-secret program to control human behaviorOperation Northwoods--the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terroristsPotentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreakWhat the Department of Defense knows about our food supply--but is keeping secretHomeland Security's "emergency" detention campsFake terrorist attacks planned by the United StatesAlthough these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Ventura's research and commentary sheds new light on what they're not telling you--and why it matters.

The CIA, Dallas, and the hard details of the JFK assassination. Coup in Dallas leaves speculation and theory aside to give the hard details of who killed President John F. Kennedy, how the murder was carried out, and why Kennedy was assassinated. Through exhaustive research and newly translated documents, author H. P. Albarelli uncovers and explains the historical roots of state-sponsored assassination, finding disturbing parallels to the assassination of JFK. Albarelli goes beyond conventional JKF assassination theory to piece together the biographies of the lesser-known but instrumental players in the incident, such as Otto Skorzeny, Pierre Lafitte, James Jesus Angleton, Santo Trafficante, and others. Albarelli provides shocking detail on the crucial role that the city of Dallas and its officials played in the maintenance of Dallas as a major hub of CIA activity, and how it led to JFK’s assassination and its cover-up. Go beyond LBJ, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby and read the full, definitive account of what happened on November 22, 1963—and how it came to fruition.

A shocking exposé looking into the failure of our government to investigate the assassination of a president. Now featuring a foreword from New York Times bestselling author Dick Russell. Gaeton Fonzi’s masterful retelling of his work investigating the Kennedy assassination for two congressional committees is required reading for students of the assassination and the subsequent failure of the government to solve the crime. His book is a compelling postmortem on the House Select Committee on Assassinations, as well as a riveting account of Fonzi’s pursuit of leads indicating involvement in the assassination by officers of the Central Intelligence Agency. First published in 1993 and now with a new foreword by Dick Russell, New York Times bestselling author of They Killed Our President! and 63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read, Fonzi’s The Last Investigation was a landmark book upon its release. More than merely an indictment of the Committee’s work, The Last Investigation tells the story of the important leads Fonzi developed as an investigator, which sent him into the milieu of Kennedy-haters among anti-Castro exiles and CIA officers. In this highly readable book, the author follows the trail to formerly obscure CIA officers such as David Atlee Phillips and David Morales. New records declassified under the JFK Records Act have only added to the dark questions raised here.

From the New York Times bestselling author Dick Russell, edited and introduced by New York Times bestselling author Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.! ”A must read for anyone concerned with climate and energy issues.” —Leonardo DiCaprio, Academy Award winning actor and environmental activist The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Powerful politicians like Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Inhofe, who receive massive contributions from the oil and coal industries. Most of these men are too intelligent to truly believe that climate change is not a growing crisis. And yet they have put their profits and careers ahead of the health and welfare of the world’s population—and even their own children and grandchildren. How do they explain themselves to their offspring, to the next generations that must deal with the environmental havoc that these men have wreaked? Horsemen of the Apocalypse takes a personal look at this global crisis, literally bringing it home.

"Reads like a John Grisham thriller crossed with an Oliver Stone movie."—Boston Globe. "This is a must-read."—Jim Marrs, New York Times bestselling author of Rule by Secrecy. "A fascinating story.”—Oliver StoneThe death of Mary Meyer left many Americans with questions. Who really killed her? Why did CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton rush to find and confiscate her diary? Had she discovered the plan to assassinate her lover, President Kennedy, with the trail of information ending at the steps of the CIA? Was it only coincidence that she was killed less than three weeks after the release of the Warren Commission Report? Fans of The Murder of Mary Russell, JFK: A Vision for America, and other JFK books will love Mary’s Mosaic. Building and relying on years of interviews and painstaking research, author Peter Janney follows the key events and influences in Mary Pinchot Meyer’s life—her first meeting with Jack Kennedy; her support of her secret lover, President Kennedy, as he worked towards the pursuit of world peace and away from the Cold War; and her exploration of psychedelic drugs. Fifty years after the assassinations of President Kennedy and Mary Meyer, this book helps readers understand why both took place. Author Peter Janney fought for two years to obtain documents from the National Personnel Records Center and the US Army to complete this third edition. It includes a final chapter about the mystery man who could be the missing piece to learn the truth behind Meyer’s murder.

What a father will do to fight the mental illness that has destroyed his son. What does a father do when hope is gone that his only son can ever lead anything close to a ?normal” life? That’s the question that haunted Dick Russell in the fall of 2011, when his son, Franklin, was thirty-two. At the age of seventeen, Franklin had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. For years he spent time in and out of various hospitals, and even went through periods of adamantly denying that Dick was actually his father. A mixed-race child, Franklin was handsome, intelligent, and sensitive until his mental illness suddenly took control. After spending the ensuing years trying to build some semblance of a normal father-son relationship, Dick was invited with his son, out of the blue, to witness the annual wildlife migration on Africa’s Serengeti Plain. Seizing this potential opportunity to repair the damage that both had struggled with, after going through two perilous nights together in Tanzania, ultimately the two-week trip changed both of their lives. Desperately seeking an alternative to the medical model’s medication regimen, the author introduces Franklin to a West African shaman in Jamaica. Dick discovers Franklin’s psychic capabilities behind the seemingly delusional thought patterns, as well as his artistic talents. Theirs becomes an ancestral quest, the journey finally taking them to the sacred lands of New Mexico and an indigenous healer. For those who understand the pain of mental illness as well the bond between a parent and a child, My Mysterious Son shares the intimate and beautiful story of a father who will do everything in his power to repair his relationship with a young man damaged by mental illness.

Considered to be the world’s foremost post-Jungian thinker, James Hillman is known as the founder of archetypal psychology and the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling title The Soul’s Code. In The Making of a Psychologist, we follow Hillman from his youth in the heyday of Atlantic City, through post-war Paris and Dublin, travels in Africa and Kashmir, and onward to Zurich and the Jung Institute, which appointed him its first director of studies in 1960. This first of a two-volume authorized biography is the result of hundreds of hours of interviews with Hillman and others over a seven-year period. Discover how Hillman’s unique psychology was forged through his life experiences and found its basis in the imagination, aesthetics, a return to the Greek pantheon, and the importance of “soul-making,” and gain a better understanding of the mind of one of the most brilliant psychologists of the twentieth century.

From New York Times Bestselling Author and former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura comes a scathing indictment of our two-party system. He attacks Democrats. He attacks Republications. He speaks truth to power! Let Jesse Ventura explain the untold truth about how corporations have bought the American electoral and legislative process through the power of lobbyists, campaign contributions, and political action committees. Using historical details, such as the development of the two-party system and the advent of third-party candidates throughout U. S. history, DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans exposes how the two major parties have allowed corporations, businesses, and politically-motivated wealthy individuals to manipulate elections, bribe elected officials, and silence the average American voter. Exposing the ineptitude and gang-like mentalities of both parties, Ventura advocates the replacement of the two-party system with a no-party system based on the ideals of our Founding Fathers. As election time rolls around, this is most certainly the book that should be looked at for reforming our electoral system.

Winner – 2012 Hollywood Book Festival for General Non-Fiction Honorable Mention – 2012 New England Book Festival for General Non-Fiction Honorable Mention - 2012 London Book Festival for General Non-Fiction Who really murdered Mary Pinchot Meyer in the fall of 1964? Why was there a mad rush by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton to locate and confiscate her diary? What in that diary was so explosive? Had Mary Meyer finally put together the intricate pieces of a plan to assassinate her lover, President Kennedy, with the trail ultimately leading to the CIA? And was it mere coincidence that Mary was killed less than three weeks after the release of the Warren Commission report? These are the questions that author Peter Janney finally answers in a way that no one else ever has. In doing so, he may well have solved Washington’s most famous unsolved murder. Based on years of painstaking research and interviews, much of it revealed here for the first time, the author traces the key events and influences in the life of Mary Pinchot Meyer, including her first meeting with Jack Kennedy at the Choate School in 1936; her explorations with psychedelic drugs; her relationship with Timothy Leary; and finally how she supported the president as he turned away from the Cold War toward the pursuit of world peace. As we approach the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination—and Mary Meyer’s—Mary’s Mosaic adds to our understanding of why both took place.

New York Times Bestseller! Let Governor Jesse Ventura take you through the paperwork that the US government tried to keep secret from the world—JFK and Vietnam, chemical and biological warfare, Gulf War illness, warnings about 9/11, and more! The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullsh*t, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Jesse Ventura, the ultimate non-partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk readers through sixty-three of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. Witness as he breaks open the vault, revealing the truth: The CIA’s top-secret program to control human behaviorOperation Northwoods—the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terroristsPotentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreakWhat the Department of Defense knows about our food supply—but is keeping mumHomeland Security’s “emergency” detention campsFake terrorist attacks planned by the United StatesAlthough these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Ventura’s research and commentary sheds new light on what they’re not telling you—and why it matters.

The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullshit, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate non- partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk readers through 63 of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing original government data, Ventura discusses what it really means and how regular Americans can stop criminal behavior at the top levels of government and in the media. Among the cases discussed: ? The CIA’s top-secret program to control human behavior ? Operation Northwoods?the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terrorists ? The discovery of a secret Afghan archive?information that never left the boardroom ? Potentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreak ? What the Department of Defense knows about our food supply?but is keeping mum Although these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Ventura’s research and commentary sheds new light on what they’re not telling you?and why it matters.