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Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice by John A Nagl
The View from the Bridge
[…] Channel Four News’ investigation of the allegations of Colin Wallace. Wilkinson passed to Channel Four an elaborate smear about Wallace, accusing him of being an accessory to murder, which Wilkinson claimed came from one of his department’s researchers on the Wallace affair. Of course his department had no researchers working on Wallace and the […]
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 […]
Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report
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South of the border
[PDF file]: […] has been known for a couple of years. Much the same information was included in chapter 10 of Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.35 Daily Mail blogging: it’s a lonely place In the latest instalment of his ‘View from the Bridge’, Robin Ramsay mentions Peter […]
The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into The Octopus and the Promis Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour
[…] have depressed someone whose life was in good shape, never mind someone like Casolaro whose life was falling apart, it is nonetheless pretty clear his death was murder and not suicide. And presumably because someone thought he was getting too close to something. But who? And what? remain almost as opaque at the end […]
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre
[PDF file]: […] in the killing – of the terrorists. Make no mistake, I am not excusing the crime those hostage takers had clearly committed. They had, themselves, committed unconscionable murder. The response from the SAS team can also be described as ferocious. The five terrorists who died were shot an average of 16 times each; and […]