[…] a hotel with machine gunfire in JFK days in an attack very similar to another in Cuba last April)?; and the most heinous question of all, might Libya be more the progressive-Islamic-republic-among- fundamentalists that it would like the world to believe? These are not questions the left should avoid, but Open Eye flashes the […]
[…] January 1989 cover of Searchlight was actually given by Harrington to Andrew Bell in one interview. Bearing in mind tensions within the Official NF over attitudes to Libya, Harrington had a political motive for leaking this photograph – and by printing it without attribution cannot Bell (a past editor of Searchlight) be said to […]
[…] street. (Vialls does not name Hughes in the piece, but that is the outfit he means.) Vialls believes that the shooting was part of the demonization of Libya prior to the bombing of that country by the USA, with British assistance. Vialls’ attempt to prove that he committed a murder everyone else thinks done […]
[…] the parapolitical calendar. For British readers, there are essays on the murder of junior British spook Jonathan Moyles; Dr Bull and the ‘supergun’ and Bull’s murder; framing Libya for Lockerbie; the Chinook crash which killed a large section of the British intelligence and counter-insurgency people in Northern Ireland; the Bloody Sunday inquiry; the Executive […]
[…] The core of the book is the investigation of the various operations to smear the National Union of Mineworkers and Arthur Scargill. There is much about MI5, Libya and Roger Windsor. There is everything short of a smoking gun. However, Milne is also running a thesis about the strike which says: (a) the miners […]
[…] a plan for the destruction of Russian chemical weapons. Several key countries suspected of having or developing chemical weapons have not signed the CWC. These include Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria, N. Korea and Taiwan, and without their membership it will be difficult for the Convention meet the goal of destroying the world’s chemical weapons […]
[…] a layer of UDA members found expression in Glen Barr’s founding of the New Ulster Political Research Group in October 1974, for which he courted funds in Libya, causing him to be condemned as a ‘Communist’ both by Ian Paisley and John Tyndale’s Spearhead. Loyalist prisoners rioted in the internment camps a month later, […]
[…] fervour to pursue nuclear programs, no matter what the time or cost, are very different’ from traditional nuclear powers such as Britain and France. North Korea, Algeria, Libya, Iran and, of course, Iraq fit this bill. To quote: ‘They and their terrorist cousins are more likely driven by…. the desire to…. terrorise, blackmail, coerce, […]
[…] lacked clarity’ (p. 36). I disagree.While Copsey half-heartedly describes some 1980s initiatives such as throwing out biological separatism, forging links with Black separatists and ideological sympathy for Libya (p.44), he misses out far more of relevance to today: discussions of technology, Green politics, economic policy, the role of front groups, state repression and, indeed, […]
[…] while its brand recognition, in an ever more crowded market, remains high. Watch out for CIA merchandise! US irritations with the Italian government included its links with Libya, and the announcement that Rucco Buttiglione, Italy’s Minister for Europe, a senior Christian Democrat and friend of Pope John Paul II had said he was ready […]
