JFK: The two Oswalds Anthony Frewin Those of you who missed the two articles by John Armstrong on ‘the two Oswalds’ in recent issues of Probe magazine, don’t despair: Armstrong has rewritten and considerably enlarged them as a two volume DTP work. Armstrong’s finding may be the most significant research breakthrough in years. But we’re … Read more
Sean McPhilemy Roberts Rinehart, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1998, $24.95 Sean McPhilemy was the producer of a Channel Four documentary, ‘The Committee’, shown in 1991, which made a series of startling allegations about collusion between the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and Protestant paramilitaries in Northern Ireland in the killing of Catholics. The programme — which I … Read more
[…] evidence of fraud in the 2004 American Presidential election continues to grow. And never mind all the stuff from websites like blackbox: we now have reports from Senator Conyer at , and from no less a body than the US government’s General Accounting Office, supporting most of the major charges. A report of the […]
Introduction Like most dramatic and unsettling political events, the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca temporarily captured the imagination of the world’s media and political pundits. Although the initial public outrage and concern generally faded once it became clear that the Pope would survive, certain individuals and groups … Read more
[…] social life’. Meanwhile, around 1975, an honest CIA officer discovered financial documents which named Dr Gottlieb as having been involved in the MKULTRA Program, and in 1977 Senator Edward Kennedy held Congressional hearings into the matter. While watching the proceedings on television, Stan Glickman found reason to believe that Dr Gottlieb was the American […]
[…] Former Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, Vice chairman, CS First Boston USA Kissinger, Henry A. Former Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. USA Nunn, Sam Former Senator (D, Georgia) USA Page, Jr., John M. Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa Region, The World Bank USA Powell, Colin L. Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs […]
Matthew R. Simmons London: Wiley, 2005, h/b Ironic, perhaps, that I finished reviewing this book in Calgary, just south of the largest land-based oil project in the American hemisphere, the Athabasca shale tar sands oil recovery projects. Collectively these will realise investment between 50 and 100 billion dollars over the next ten years. Pipelines … Read more
Jeffrey M. Bale In this essay, and the notes and sources that accompany it, there are many words from languages – French, Spanish, Portugese etc – which should have various accents on them. These accents have been omitted to simplify type-setting. This essay was first published in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology and is reprinted … Read more
[…] all the other books on these subjects. Chappaquiddick The most interesting section of the book is actually the part about the events at Chappaquiddick in July 1969. Senator Edward Kennedy and five male companions went on a few days holiday with six female companions. During her husband’s much needed break, Mrs Edward Kennedy was […]
[…] the Contra operation, the CIA’s Donald Gregg, was the Reagan administration’s prime channel to Israel on matters regarding the Contras. Former Noriega aide, Jose Blandon, testifying to Senator John Kerry’s subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International Operations, has alleged that Harari and his network ran a two-way trade system: arms from Poland and Czechoslovakia […]
