[…] out a story claiming that the IRA had hired American Vietnam vets to do its killing for them. (‘Paddy’ couldn’t really shoot straight was the subtext.) A new variation on this appeared – where else? – but in The Sunday Telegraph on 10 March 2002. After a sniper killed ten Israeli civilians and soldiers […]
[…] on 30 July 2004. My name is John Allman. I am honoured to have been invited to come here from England to talk to you about a new danger facing all mankind. A favourite saying of mine is: ‘If they can do it to me, they can do it to anybody’.…… The particular evil […]
[…] feel-good linkages (‘America defeated Communism’); but were denied the opportunity to form modern linkages (‘liberated’ Eastern Europeans v unliberated Iraqis/Palestinians). As a result, one of Europe’s ‘ new’ stories, the growth of anti-Americanism, and, more importantly, understanding of where it came from, was withheld. (A mirror image of the information vacuum US governments imposed […]
[…] The Focus was founded by Walter Citrine, the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress. In 1933 the World Jewish Economic Federation, under the direction of a New York attorney called Samuel Untermyer, had organised a trade boycott of Germany. The following year Untermyer and the Mayor of New York, Fiorello La Guardia, established […]
Steamshovel 11 The arrival of a new Steamshovel is an event. No matter that I am going to want to be picky about something in it, every issue contains items both substantial and intriguing – and much that would find a home nowhere else, that I can think of. (Except maybe Lobster. I wish […]
[…] the local council elections, and found that he could (although he decided not to). The confusion was blamed on Stewart’s completion of a form to join his new ward. While the form to be added to the correct register specifically asked for previous address within the last three months, Stewart had moved from Shakespeare […]
[…] name ‘surfaced’ in 1984, though they fail to inform the reader that this was actually when Holroyd first spoke to the media, via Duncan Campbell in the New Statesman. (22) Ambush says Nairac ‘boasted’ of killing Green, and predictably describes Ken Livingston’s claims about Nairac in his maiden speech to Parliament as ‘unsubstantiated’. But […]
[…] US experience suggests that polygraph tests wrongly clear 1 in 4 guilty suspects. (Guardian 19th October 1983) On polygraph’s failings: Douglas Carroll (Guardian 26th May 1983) and New Scientist (15th December 1983) Summary of the story so far: Richard Norton-Taylor (Guardian 16th November) and Hennessy (Times 16 November 1983) UK Government buys six polygraphs […]
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