[…] Jews again report a rise in antisemitism. I read these books after hearing Sir Gerald Kaufman in the Commons denounce Israeli attacks on Gaza. He described the murder of his Polish grandmother by a German soldier and then said: ‘My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in […]
The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European [imperialism] … Read more
[…] Pynchon novel. Butman and Sprinkle write in their Introduction, ‘What we, the authors, have done is research dozens and dozens of books on the conspiracy, plot , murder and evident cover-up. We then picked five of what we felt were the most informative and interesting of those books and reviewed them in a form […]
Murder in Cairo Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo with Leni Gillman London: Biteback Publishing, 2025, h/b, £20 Andrew Rosthorn This book is not to be missed. It has taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get quite close to finding out who ordered […]
[PDF file]: The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed Robin Ramsay Please note: the longer documents referred to below in the footnotes are in the separate Appendices folder. Introduction During the (first) Cold War, NATO countries set up secret ‘stay behind’ networks with caches of arms, ammunition and food/drink etc. in preparation for the […]
[PDF file]: Ripping yarns, penetrating tales! A Very English Scandal Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment John Preston London: Viking/Penguin, 2016, 340 pages, illustrations, index; hardback, around £12. It’s nearly forty years since the Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe and several unlikely ‘associates’ were on trial at the Old Bailey for […]
[PDF file]: Appendices to The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed By Robin Ramsay Lobster 81 (Summer 2021) Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Appendix 5 Appendix 6 Appendix 7 Appendix 8 Appendix 9 Appendix 10 Appendix 11 Appendix 12 Appendix 13 Appendix 14 Appendix 15 Appendix 16 Appendix 17 Appendix 18 […]
[PDF file]: Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy Mark North New York: Skyhorse, 2011; 300 pages, notes, h/b, (US) $24.95 T his book is 300 pages long but the text is 159 pages; the rest is mostly reproductions of documents (as if the author thinks the reader would […]
[…] being made extensively here in Britain, in republican circles and on Irish radio and television. A particularly horrifying incident that many hon. Members will remember was the murder of three members of the Miami showband – completely innocent musicians with no political affiliations whatsoever. It took place in the midst of the cease-fire that […]
[…] these charges. However, in the words of Griffin, ‘since it was not required at this stage…. he did not have it to hand’.(6) In the document Attempted Murder (AM hereafter), discussed below, Griffin justified this lack of evidence by reference to the Constitution then in force. However, those who disagreed felt that he had […]
