[PDF file]: […] tours as soldiers or as television viewers. This was the daily violence on an unimaginable scale guided by numbing bureaucratic processes that seemed to reduce the mass murder to soporific tedium. It was the war that sent mainly African-Americans and poor whites to kill ‘gooks’ ostensibly to 5 The Geneva Agreements of 1954 ended […]
[PDF file]: […] which there has been no shortage. It’s easy to see why. Files is a genuine gangster and a would-be killer (his 30-year sentence was for an attempted murder committed in 1991), and he presents a simple story that circumvents the bewildering forest of forensic, ballistic and eyewitness evidence relating to the case. An entirely […]
[PDF file]: […] of those accused of taking advantage of Epstein’s generosity, in order to rape a thirteen year old girl, was Donald Trump who, the victim claimed, ‘threatened to murder her and her family if she told anyone’. When the allegation first came to light, the press ‘generally refused to report on the case’. Indeed ‘lawyers […]
[PDF file]: Stan Bonnett and the Price of Admiralty Murder in Cairo,1 the book about the life and death of David Holden, chief foreign correspondent of the Sunday Times, got me thinking about one of Holden’s Fleet Street contemporaries, Stanley Bonnett. In 1960, in the twilight of the colonial empires, both Holden and Bonnett worked in […]
[…] talk about it.21 What a pity then that RFK Jr. has chosen to lead the American opposition to vaccines. For this will dominate the conversation, not the murder of his uncle. Why he has gone down this road is unclear to me. I commented on his anti-vaxx writing in this column in Lobster 84 […]
[…] talk about it.21 What a pity then that RFK Jr. has chosen to lead the American opposition to vaccines. For this will dominate the conversation, not the murder of his uncle. Why he has gone down this road is unclear to me. I commented on his anti-vaxx writing in this column in Lobster 84 […]
[PDF file]: […] for fear of alienating what it perceived as the host (Protestant) population. In the earliest mainstream account of these Loyalist killings, Martin Dillon and Denis Lehane’s Political Murder in Northern Ireland (1973), the absence of prosecutions for these murders was attributed to the police force, the RUC, being overwhelmed by the number of deaths. […]
[PDF file]: […] another bombing suspect has been apprehended after explosions were caused in the hearts of urban areas in the US. Ahmad Khan Rahami is in custody, charged with murder for having planted the explosive devices in Manhattan and New Jersey (as well as apparently abandoning some more bombs in a New Jersey train). Depressingly, it […]
[PDF file]: […] rest of the former Mrs Liggett’s claims, although it may cast some doubt on her reliability in general.2 In 1974 John Liggett was convicted of the attempted murder of Mrs Dorothy Peck, whom he had bludgeoned with a hammer before – apparently assuming Mrs Peck was dead – attempting to destroy the crime scene […]
[PDF file]: […] as a CIA intelligence report, naming two British former SAS men as the killers of Dr Gerald Bull, the designer of Saddam Hussein’s socalled supergun. The unsolved murder of the 62-year old Canadian-born engineer Gerald Bull, shot dead outside the door of his Brussels flat on March 22, 1990, has been variously attributed to […]
