[…] 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; […]
[…] a bitter tug-of-war between those who believe that methods of intelligence-gathering should be protected at all costs and those who regard the tape as possible evidence of murder committed by police, and therefore belonged in a wider arena.’ (16) Head of RUC Special Branch, Trevor Forbes, told Stalker, ‘You will never be able to […]
[…] justice: e.g. the campaigns mounted by Ken Bigley’s family, prior to his execution in Iraq, to secure his release; or that of hotelier John Ward following the murder of his daughter Julie in Kenya. These personal tragedies have been presented in a vacuum, when the reality is that the campaigns organised by the families, […]
‘Modernism is political’. Okay, it’s not the snappiest start to an article I know, but it gets to the bottom of the phenomenon that is LM, formerly Living Marxism, currently Last Magazine. Confused? Yes they are, but not as confused as the liberal intelligentsia who have been trying to decode what LM means for the … Read more
[…] he can do a lot of damage.’ (47) This last statement is particuarly evocative. In 1984 a violent neo-Nazi group called The Order — responsible for the murder of talk show host Alan Berg — established contact with two government scientists engaged in clandestine research to project chemical imbalances and render targeted individuals docile […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
