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Manufacturing Terrorism: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society
[…] Blair to play the role of George W. Bush’s loyal flunky and so generated this ‘blowback’. But see Nick Must’s ‘How viable was the ‘ISIS-inspired Theresa May murder plot?’ at and the case of Lewis Ludlow, ‘the Oxford Street terror plotter’ at . Thanks to Nick Must for these examples. 20 See for example, […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower […]
NIck on Macintyre
[…] 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 […]
Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson
[PDF file]: […] was coming from; perhaps he had always been a hatchet-man for the hard right of the Conservative Party? I decided to reread his tremendous Blind Eye to Murder, published back in 1981, and actually bought a second hand copy. It only served to remind me of what he had once been before his sad […]
The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.40 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]
The View from the Bridge
[…] he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower […]
The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone
[PDF file]: […] War, Stone describes the 1948 death of the Czech politician Jan Masaryk, who was found lying on the pavement beneath the small bathroom window of his flat. Murder? Suicide? Stone offers this explanation of the still unexplained death: ‘Perhaps the affair can be explained by drugs. LSD, which had been discovered in Switzerland at […]
The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited
[PDF file]: […] especially in the US, is convinced that the persistence of slavery, genocide, and all the other elements of colonialism/imperialism in the US Empire were ‘unintentional’. The regular murder of Blacks by police in the US is not intentional. Lynching was never intentional. In a country whose official explanation for all economic injustice is the […]