[…] By Rachel Zoll Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP) – A white serial killer who traveled the country targeting blacks, Jews and interracial couples pleaded guilty today to the 1978 murder of a black man in Chattanooga. Joseph Paul Franklin, 47, now has been convicted of killing seven people and is suspected in ten other murders. He […]
[…] and refugees bitter for revenge against the ‘Christians’ who had driven them from their homes in the Caucasus and elsewhere. These were the men responsible for the murder, rape and pillage that characterised this particular horror. There can no longer be any serious doubt about the origins of the Armenian genocide, and Akcam has […]
[…] the role of Johnson as the incoming President, I was wondering what you thought of the recent news of Billy Sol Estes’ remarks that LBJ ordered the murder of Henry Marshall.(6) This, added to the picture painted in Robert Caro’s recent biography of Johnson’s early years, suggests that LBJ was certainly capable of Kennedy’s […]
Orwellian control, public denial, and the murder of President Kennedy E. Martin Schotz Kurtz, Ulmer and DeLucia, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1996 Distributed in the UK by Plough Publishing House (at 01580 883344), £15.50 This is a very odd book. It is beautifully printed, bound and laid-out – a pleasure to handle. Unfortunately the content doesn’t […]
[…] and mode of analysis. But parapolitics as thus defined is itself too narrowly conscious and intentional to describe the deeper irrational movements which culminated collectively in the murder of the President: it describes at best only an intervening layer of the irrationality under our political culture’s rational surface. ‘Thus I now refer to parapolitics […]
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[…] Saul Landau is one of those names on the American Left that I recognise but whose work, apart from his Assassination on Embassy Row, about the murder of Letelier 25 years ago, I don’t think I have ever read before – maybe one or two things on the Net from Counterpunch, the co-publisher […]
[…] Matta himself remained untouchable until 1988, after Congressional support for the Contras was terminated altogether.(15) By this time Matta Ballesteros was sought by the DEA for the murder in Mexico of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Two of his associates and co-defendants in that murder case, Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Felix Gallardo of the […]
[…] name the ‘man closely linked to intelligence circles’? The late G.K. Young is unlikely to object. Why not name Duncan Campbell, the person MI5 asked him to murder? Why recount the fascist activities and intelligence connections of ‘Lutz’ and ‘the Major’ without telling us that they are Column 88 leader Les Vaughan and Ian […]
[…] the reluctance of the Left to criticise the ANC in South Africa after its bloody suppression of its dissident faction from 1984. This involved the rape and murder of ANC dissidents both in the notorious Quatro gulag run by the MPLA in Angola and in Cuban prison camps. In this way did the ANC […]
