[…] 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 […]
[…] is scanty, is essential. Instead of documentation we get stuff like this (taken from p69 after opening the book at random). The emphases are mine. Discussing the murder of one Eamon McMahon, McArdle says: “McMahon, a debonair type, was a Republican from a fiercely Nationalist family. He was generally recognised as a shadowy paramilitary […]
[…] Palme (10)Was Palme the victim of a destabilisation attempt in the mid-70’s like fellow Socialist Willi Brandt? Is there a connection to the most plausible of Paline murder theories – action by a right-wing faction within the Swedish intelligence service, SAPO? In 1973 three journalists alleged the existence of such a group with the […]
[…] of one man, then that was no big deal. In war, thousands upon thousands of innocent people go to the wall … Nobody wanted to frustrate Stalker’s murder investigation. Murder is murder. Mitigating circumstances for killing have to be justified in court. We’re all on the same side on that subject. But what Stalker […]
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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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] part in it). Central figure is mafia leader Ugurlu, with connections to Agca and the Bulgarian state. Article suggests there are two possible reasons for the Ipekci murder: 1) Ipekci was planning to expose some of the mafia’s activities; 2) mafia wanted to buy the paper and Ipekci was in the way. (The latter […]
[…] pursuing miscarriage of justice cases. Speakers included Don Hale, the journalist who campaigned to clear the name of Stephen Downing, who served 27 years for the 1973 murder of Wendy Sewell in Bakewell; Kevin McMahon of Merseyside Against Injustice, who previously worked for Merseyside Police and later became a detective and Special Branch Officer; […]
