A short story.

Sources of English words from ca. 175 languages, arranged alphabetically, from Akkadian to Zuñi.

Did the CIA sabotage their own 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in the hope of trapping President Kennedy into a full-scale... More > war? Was President Kennedy killed because he wanted to withdraw from Vietnam? What is one to make of Prof. Noam Chomsky's rejection of this thesis and his "false debate" with Prof. John Newman? The author analyzes his extensive correspondence with Chomsky on this issue. Was Nixon's Watergate downfall an inside job? Was the "abortive" coup against Gorbachev that led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union a KGB-CIA hoax? Was Alfred Herrhausen, chairman of the Deutsche Bank, murdered by his fellow bankers because of his progressive approach to Third-World debt? Is AIDS man-made - for the purpose of combating global overpopulation? This is the story of one American's attempt to grapple with the underbelly of recent history - a story which is very relevant to questions today such as the truth behind 9/11. < Less

Essays and poems (mostly) on 9/11.

A study of the use of various verb forms in the Romance languages to indicate doubt and politeness. An underlying semantic... More > theory is proposed to account for all of these uses as simply as possible. Examples are taken from French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian and various other Romance languages and dialects at various stages in their history. < Less

English grammar rules for advanced German learners. Description and discussion of mistakes made in English by advanced... More > learners at university level. The rules are presented as simply and concisely as possible and are meant to serve as a aid in learning and teaching the language. Most of the problems discussed are typical not only of Germans but also of learners with other native languages. < Less

Did the CIA sabotage their own 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in the hope of trapping President Kennedy into a full-scale... More > war? Was President Kennedy killed because he wanted to withdraw from Vietnam? What is one to make of Prof. Noam Chomsky's rejection of this thesis and his "false debate" with Prof. John Newman? The author analyzes his extensive correspondence with Chomsky on this issue. Was Nixon's Watergate downfall an inside job? Was the "abortive" coup against Gorbachev that led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union a KGB-CIA hoax? Was Alfred Herrhausen, chairman of the Deutsche Bank, murdered by his fellow bankers because of his progressive approach to Third-World debt? Is AIDS man-made – for the purpose of combating global overpopulation?

This is the story of one American's attempt to grapple with the underbelly of recent history – a story which is very relevant to questions today such as the truth behind 9/11. < Less

Sources of English words from ca. 175 languages, arranged alphabetically, from Akkadian to Zuñi.

English grammar rules for advanced German learners. Description and discussion of mistakes made in English by advanced... More > learners at university level. The rules are presented as simply and concisely as possible and are meant to serve as a aid in learning and teaching the language. Most of the problems discussed are typical not only of Germans but also of learners with other native languages. < Less

Did the CIA sabotage their own 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in the hope of trapping President Kennedy into a full-scale... More > war? Was President Kennedy killed because he wanted to withdraw from Vietnam? What is one to make of Prof. Noam Chomsky's rejection of this thesis and his "false debate" with Prof. John Newman? The author analyzes his extensive correspondence with Chomsky on this issue. Was Nixon's Watergate downfall an inside job? Was the "abortive" coup against Gorbachev that led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union a KGB-CIA hoax? Was Alfred Herrhausen, chairman of the Deutsche Bank, murdered by his fellow bankers because of his progressive approach to Third-World debt? Is AIDS man-made – for the purpose of combating global overpopulation?

This is the story of one American's attempt to grapple with the underbelly of recent history – a story which is very relevant to questions today such as the truth behind 9/11. < Less