[…] legal-judicial system to stop it. This 80-page glue-bound, A5 pamphlet recounts the story of the events which preceded that harassment: how the police framed him for the murder of Patrick Quinn who was beaten to death in Hammersmith police station by a policeman or policemen; the three trials Kennedy endured; the lawsuit brought against […]
[…] dead but stinking.) Such definitions of “terrorism” that are attempted merely produce problems. The version offered by the editor (p9) is: “terrorism is the deliberate and systematic murder maiming and menacing of the innocent to inspire fear for political ends.” Which just about covers the whole of American foreign policy since the late 19th […]
[…] In short, the entire section appears to be false in virtually every detail. There is another section which made me wonder. On p. 58 he describes the murder of a witness and writes: ‘This was actually a sanitation team which had been sent from Department 4 of the Central Directorate – otherwise known as […]
[…] that lay behind the operation. As far as Pius was concerned, Nazi war criminals were first and foremost anti-Communists and this was more important than any mass murder they might have committed. He actually interceded with the incredulous Allies to urge clemency for the likes of Arthur Greiser and Hans Frank. Even more astonishing, […]
[…] up a pseudo-gang to terrorise Catholics. He had also infiltrated the UDA in 1972 to 1973. None of the others in the gang were ever charged with murder, but Baker was jailed after pleading guilty. He was secretly visited in his cell by Lord Windlesham, then Minister of State at Stormont. He was later […]
[…] a mental asylum. (Bolden and the Chicago incident are discussed at length in Vincent Palamara’s The Third Alternative – Survivor’s Guilt: the Secret Service and the JFK Murder. See Lobster 27 pp 26 and 31 for how to obtain this. Palamara’s work, though badly organised, deserves a much wider audience.) The second JFK piece […]
[…] photographic evidence. In such circumstances it becomes difficult to tell the difference between a safe and an unsafe conviction. This approach would not be allowed in a murder or robbery trial, for instance. More importantly it would not be followed in instances where a child is kidnapped and murdered (Soham), or tortured and neglected […]
[…] and E4A covert surveillance team, and Loyalists on orders from the SMIU were able to launch a series of cross-border incursions which, according to Holroyd, involved one murder, two attempted kidnaps and several undercover surveillance missions. One of these operations, in March 1974, is the beginning of the Stalker saga – an attempt by […]
Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism – 1900-38 Guido Preparata US: University of Michigan Press, 2005; h/b, $90.00; p/b $28.95 UK: Pluto Press, 2005; h/b £60.00; p/b £17.99 I would like to introduce a recently published book that has been overlooked. Guido Preparata’s Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism-1900-38 reinterprets … Read more
‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s … Read more
