Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials

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[PDF file]: […] trial process unfair to the defendant. In the Matrix Churchill trial of 1992, Judge Brian Smedley QC, needed much persuasion before ordering the disclosure of the documents suppressed by the PII certificates and Mr Rupert Allason MP suggested he might well have been unique in challenging the certificates. Prosecuting counsel Alan Moses QC (whose […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

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[PDF file]: […] See also John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies (1984). Interest persisted in exposing CIA operations until about 1989 when one could argue it either waned or was suppressed. Probably the second most significant work on the CIA published is Douglas Valentine’s The Phoenix Program (2002). Valentine succeeds in explaining the creation of an enormously […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] role Parris is referred to on p. 406 of Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatcher: the Authorized biography (London: Penguin, 2013). 17 See, for example, Jeffrey Kaye’s ‘The long- suppressed official report on US biowarfare in North Korea’ at or and Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman, ‘United States Biological Warfare during the Korean War: rhetoric and […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

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[PDF file]: […] note 12) p. 534 Significantly, Zelensky’s character Vasyl Holoborodko has the same name as a celebrated Ukrainian poet (born 1945 and still alive), who was persecuted and suppressed by the Soviet authorities for three decades. This name identification imparts a touch of pathos and indomitability to Zelensky’s fictional president. The real-life Vasyl Holoborodko had […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] are substantial enough for 28 pages dealing with ‘specific sources of foreign support’ for the official terrorists in the 2002 congressional inquiry into 9/11 to have been suppressed on grounds of ‘national security’ by President George W. Bush.4 3 Those still classified pages were recently read by two Congressmen who subsequently hinted that they […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] note 12) p. 534 Significantly, Zelensky’s character Vasyl Holoborodko has the same name as a celebrated Ukrainian poet (born 1945 and still alive), who was persecuted and suppressed by the Soviet authorities for three decades. This name identification imparts a touch of pathos and indomitability to Zelensky’s fictional president. The real-life Vasyl Holoborodko had […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] note 12) p. 534 Significantly, Zelensky’s character Vasyl Holoborodko has the same name as a celebrated Ukrainian poet (born 1945 and still alive), who was persecuted and suppressed by the Soviet authorities for three decades. This name identification imparts a touch of pathos and indomitability to Zelensky’s fictional president. The real-life Vasyl Holoborodko had […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] for bone fragments. He found some – but he also found a bullet. Another bullet meant more than one gunman had been firing and his discovery was suppressed to preserve the lone assassin, ‘magic bullet’ thesis. Young’s account – complete with his correspondence about this with Warren Commission member (and former US President) Gerald […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] note 12) p. 534 Significantly, Zelensky’s character Vasyl Holoborodko has the same name as a celebrated Ukrainian poet (born 1945 and still alive), who was persecuted and suppressed by the Soviet authorities for three decades. This name identification imparts a touch of pathos and indomitability to Zelensky’s fictional president. The real-life Vasyl Holoborodko had […]

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