Search Results for: murder
The President and the Provocateur: The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox
[PDF file]: […] little harsh on this).3 Even so, as Cox describes Kennedy’s conflicts with most of the major lobbies in America, from the mafia to US Steel, his eventual murder feels unsurprising. He does not suggest a solution. He asks (p. 284): ‘Was there an assassination conspiracy, as Bertrand Russell and his Committee feared?….’ This is […]
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
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, […]
Parish Notices
[PDF file]: […] the time.) Having worked on this issue for a long time, it’s hard for me to see it; but from Anthony Frewin’s essay on the Frank Olsen murder of the 1950s, through Simon Matthews’ piece on the US involvement in the ‘pirate’ radio stations of the 1960s, Robert Henderson’s piece on Enron accounting, John […]
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 […]
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 UK and the coup in Chile, 1973
[PDF file]: […] had been democratically elected to power in 1970. Allende’s administration was replaced by the military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet’s regime was responsible for the murder of at least 3000 Chileans who had backed Allende, while thousands more were imprisoned and tortured and tens of thousands driven into exile. It was not […]