[…] chief constable rank or higher – has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.’ (4) Does this seem like a story to you? It did to me but not to the London media. Not a word of […]
Korean war biological warfare? Issue 11 of the Bulletin of Cold War International History Project contained what appears to be evidence that the allegations by North Korea and the Chinese that the US were using biological warfare during the Korean War were false – were in fact disinformation. Documents apparently from former Soviet archives seem … Read more
[…] the higher management at the BBC to shut them up; the Peter Bessell version of events, the perambulations of Norman Scott – and the actual conspiracy to murder him. But in ignoring the psy-ops operations Freeman has served up an interesting snack rather than a main course. There is one absolutely wonderful comment from […]
[…] correct, there were sections of the US military who had decided by 1968 that the domestic situation could not be left to the politicians and sanctioned the murder of the leading black opponent of their war in Vietnam. There’s a bigger story yet: the growth of the power of the US military in post-war […]
Weird Web Professor Peter Dale Scott reported the following in March. ‘Four times today I have tried to go to www.counterpunch.org. And four times Netscape was unable to find it. This happens frequently on my computer to websites which share my opinions, or to which I am hotlinked. And when I searched for ‘Alex Cockburn’ … Read more
Brian Crozier Foreword by Sir James Goldsmith The Claridge Press, London, 1995, £12.95 One of the odd things about the James Goldsmith Referendum Party gambit in the recent election is the way the mass media collectively chose not to refer back to the last great Goldsmith campaign – his hunt for the Red Menace … Read more
[…] Brown was too sympathetic to the plaintiffs in the case and was removed during the pre-trial proceedings. Pepper wanted permission to run forensic tests on the alleged murder weapon. (Pepper and Brown were pretty sure the gun wasn’t the one which killed King.) Because James Earl Ray had pleaded guilty, such tests had not […]
[…] by the police, and that he was framed for the killing. In September 1991, Malcolm Kennedy was sentenced at the Old Bailey to life imprisonment for Quinn’s murder, despite evidence that crucial police logs had gone missing, and conflicting accounts from police officers of events on the night. A Police Complaints Authority investigation in […]
[…] it? I had been active in the anti-war movement. In the days of Richard Nixon, that could spell trouble. There was the coup in Chile and the murder of Allende. After Nixon’s fall, the national security state perpetuated itself under Henry Kissinger, who stayed on under Gerald Ford as secretary of state. William Colby […]
[…] was arrested in April for his alleged part in a conspiracy to assassinate the ANC leader Chris Harni (Independent, 19 April, 1993) and later convicted of the murder. The Guardian (21 April) reported that Derby-Lewis ran an organisation called The Stallard Foundation, which affiliated to Western Goals. Stallard rang a bell with me and […]
