[…] victims of the national security state’, Identities, 4 (3/4) (1998), pp. 389-430. ‘The Cold War context of the FBI’s investigation of Leslie A. White’, American Anthropologist, 103 (1) (2001), pp. 164-167. ‘Past wars, present dangers, future anthropologies’, Anthropology Today, 18 (1) (February 2002), pp. 3-5. ‘ “Terrorism” and the responsibility of the anthropologist’, […]
[…] not only had a rapid rise to the top in her journalistic career, she’s been lucky in her travel arrangements. She was booked on Pan Am Flight 103 that left London for New York on December 21, 1988. She told Sunday Telegraph readers on the 10th anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster: ‘About a week […]
[…] unable to bear the thought of mortality, and it’s possible that he lived so long – he died in 1995, bright and alert to the last, aged 103 – simply because he wouldn’t let himself die. His century is the story of the century that he helped shape. At the end, sitting alone in […]
[…] – pp. 86, 110. 25 Ibid. pp. 94-95 26 Young – see note 2 – p. 290 27 Broad and Geiger – see note 18 – p. 103. 28 L. J. Sharpe, ‘British Scepticism and the European Union’ in Martin Holmes (ed) The Eurosceptical Reader (London: Macmillan, 1996) p. 305. 29 Cited in Broad […]
There is an unmistakable thread running through America’s move eastward since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Using their vast economic clout – in the form of loans, grants and sanctions – and backed by threatening military supremacy (to say nothing of the devious use of ‘unattributable’ mercenary groups such as the MPRI), … Read more
[…] Cottrell, recently sent me the text of his new book on Lockerbie, Ashes in the Fall: Iran-Contra, the godfather of terror and the bombing of Pan Am 103 (forthcoming from Red Door).81 The paragraphs below are from the introduction. I have not been following Lockerbie and this was new to me and thus, perhaps, […]
[PDF file]: […] Cottrell, recently sent me the text of his new book on Lockerbie, Ashes in the Fall: Iran-Contra, the godfather of terror and the bombing of Pan Am 103 (forthcoming from Red Door).81 The paragraphs below are from the introduction. I have not been following Lockerbie and this was new to me and thus, perhaps, […]
[PDF file]: […] system, and many of its senior members, emerge from Lockerbie with little credit. But, as the canny First Minister also says, the fate of Pan Am Flight 103 on that December evening is caught up in matters of high political import. The feelings of al-Megrahi’s family and friends come very low on the agendas […]
[…] working on Lockerbie for a long time and he has concluded: ‘New Evidence and Logic have led me to rewrite 30 years of History. Pan Am Flight 103 disintegrated in flight over Lockerbie on December 21 1988 because of a massive structural failure due to well-known issues of metal fatigue in section 41 and […]
[PDF file]: […] a quote from Maheu, refusing to comment. 101 Jack Anderson, ‘Two Ghosts Haunt Nixon’s Campaign’, Washington Post, 24 January 1972. 102 Feldstein, Poisoning the Press, pp. 222-223. 103 In 1969, Pearson and Anderson had broken a story about Bebe Rebozo and Herbert Klein, Nixon’s communications director, visiting Continues at the foot of the next […]
