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More on Hess
[PDF file]: […] Schellenberg chief of the Sicherheitsdienst political intelligence for the SS. His memoirs were written after his conviction by a US military court at Nuremberg for conspiracy to murder Soviet prisoners of war. Schellenberg had investigated the Hess flight for the SS. In The Labyrinth17 he wrote: ur secret information showed that for some years […]
The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth: The New Global Oligarchs and How They’re Taking Over Our World by Stephen Armstrong
[…] one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought Chelsea FC ‘to protect himself against assassination’, although quite […]
Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt
[PDF file]: […] and shortly thereafter a minor slew of books about the evidence that incriminates Wallace and thereby implicates Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, as the main motivator behind the murder. This has now been superseded by a period in which critics have attempted to dismiss this evidence. There are two prominent and respected critics who object […]
Hilda Murrell and the FOIA
[PDF file]: […] Information request. WhatDoTheyKnow also publishes and archives requests and responses, building a massive archive of information.’ 1 For those not familiar with the crime that was the murder of Hilda Murrell, a decent briefing can be obtained from an article, ‘Who really killed Hilda Murrell’, that Michael Mansfield QC wrote for the Guardian: […]
Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture
Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards
Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice by John A Nagl
The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton
[PDF file]: […] bringing police investigations to a halt.8 Denton’s summation of the noninvestigation of Zangara’s intriguing background, and of the diverted rush to Zangara was originally tried for attempted murder and sentenced to 80 years hard labour. Soon after that, he was tried for murder, because one of the bystanders hit by his bullets – Chicago […]
The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor
[PDF file]: […] he argues. When it comes to describing military offensives, the government give us ‘remotely piloted air systems’, ‘precision weapons’ and ‘collateral damage’ rather than bombdropping drones that murder civilians. Conversely, alongside these euphemisms for hiding state violence, there are also euphemisms for stripping away the rights of individuals. Since 9/11 a world has been […]