[…] attempts were serious. Both ‘plots’ were exposed by tip-offs. The authors assert that all three attempts – Dallas being the third – were the mob trying to kill JFK; that the mob created three identical plots: ambush by rifle fire during motorcades with a patsy on the scene to be given to the police. […]
Election fraud Further to ‘How to fix an Election’ in Lobster 43, more news on the gentle art of perfuming a skunk. First Pick Your Voters Some strong contenders here. But first out of the hat is the Labour Party for performance during the all-postal voting experiments that were tried across the country in the … Read more
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility Taner Akcam London: Constable, 2007, 576 pp., £9.99, p/b The Kurdish and Armenian Genocides: From Censorship and Denial to Recognition Desmond Fernandes Apec Forlag: 2008, 309 pp., £16.99, p/b Denial of the Holocaust is very much the preserve of the fascist right and … Read more
[…] well have been performing through hypnosis.’ The article’s date? May 13, 1968, two weeks before the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: the title? ‘To sleep: perchance to kill’. Notes Much of the information in this article is derived from the files compiled by John Marks, author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate (expanded […]
[…] beliefs of the society. In the 1980s and 90s Class War did just this. With a tabloid style of agitprop journalism Class War urged readers to ‘ Kill the Bill’, ‘Eat the Rich’ and so on. Its readers disrupted the Henley Regatta and other high profile upper class showcase events. Literally ‘attacking’ society events, […]
John Diamond Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008, h/b. No price is stated but it’s around $30 on-line. In The Guardian on 4 March 2009 William Dalrymple wrote: ‘Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the advance of Hamas and Hezbollah, the … Read more
Oliver Kamm London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2005, h/b, £13.99 Kamms’ Anti-totalitarianism was published in the same week and possibly on the same day as the Henry Jackson Society announced itself to the world. So this is a kind of manifesto for that group. (1 ) It’s a nice try, in a way, this … Read more
Let us now praise famous researchers Praise from a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the first generation critics of the Warren Report John Kelin San Antonio, Texas: Wings Press, 2007. xviii + 585pps. Bibliography, Notes, Sources, etc. Illustrated. $29.95. Reviewed by Anthony Frewin While the literature critical of the Warren Commission’s … Read more
Searchlight At the beginning of the essay on the Blairites above, I discuss the concept of political contamination, the denigration of people on the left by association – real or fictitious – with ideas or people on the right. The most enthusiastic users of the contamination device in Britain today are found in Searchlight magazine. … Read more
John Armstrong Arlington, Texas: Quasar Ltd., 2003 $40, plus postage, from <www.jfkresearch.com/armstrong/> This is a major publishing event in the JFK assassination world. Parts of Armstrong’s work has been on the Net and he’s spoken at some of the big JFK conferences. His work-in-progress became spoken of as ‘the John Armstrong research’; and finally … Read more
