[PDF file]: […] some useful insight into Middle East affairs. One big omission in Sillars’ memoir is Lockerbie. This is particularly striking as the 1988 destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 is, after devolution and the Dunblane massacre, probably the biggest Scottish story of his lifetime. The subsequent trial of two Libyans remains a controversial issue4 with […]
[PDF file]: […] Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. Josh Reinstein, Titus, Trump and the Triumph of Israel: The Power of Faith-Based Diplomacy (New York: Gefen Publishing, 2020) pp. 69, 83, 102- 103, 204, 228, 232, 238 58 David Rubin, Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel (Boca Raton, FL: Shiloh Israel press, 2021) pp. 59, 191. See […]
[PDF file]: Gone but not forgotten . . . UnPresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others Jon Sopel BBC Books, 2021, £20.00, h/b The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism, and the Rest of Us with Coronavirus, And Why aren’t We Done With Him Yet? S V Date Self-published, […]
[PDF file]: […] about the events that have brought this exclusion of Mr. Belokon about, and it does seem extraordinary that a See paragraph 260, at the bottom of page 103 of . 11 conviction not on the merits but based on non-attendance by Mr. Belokon should have this effect. But, as I say, I know nothing […]
[PDF file]: […] . . this is a process which is in evolution’. (Emphasis in the original.) That from an organisation which is 111 years old and has had, for 103 of those years, the ‘threat’ from USSR/Russia as a major target. At the end of the report come the inevitable credits – the list of witnesses, […]
[PDF file]: […] £2 billion a year in 2012 and in the same paragraph that the UK exported ‘nearly £1 million-worth’ of small arms to Sri Lanka in 2010. (p. 103). £1 million is a drop in Sri Lanka’s military budget let alone that of the US.4 Some of the chapters are straightforward and readily intelligible; others […]
[PDF file]: […] business…’ Reported in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 25 January 1925. 8 Philip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, (Harmondsworth, Penguin: 1975) p. 103. See also John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies (1984). extensive military and secret police force to suppress opposition to it. Officially, US national security means the […]
[…] Corinne Souza died on 13 25 ‘Was there a deal with Iran over Lockerbie bombing? The West should come clean about who really bombed Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 – we owe it to the victims’ families’ at . Calling this shameless doesn’t quite do it justice. March of lung cancer, caused by […]
[PDF file]: […] self-consciously bright and overly selfassured statesmen, when combined with gross ignorance, can have fatal effects not just for single individuals but for whole societies and nations.’ (p. 103) This account and the extracts from Hancock’s diary do convey considerable sang-froid on the author’s part; and at the rear of the book there are reproductions […]
[PDF file]: The state we are in Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation Sam Bright London: Byline Books, 2023, £14.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2011, the Eton entrance exam paper asked prospective students (12 to 13year-old boys) to draft a speech: The year is 2040. There have been riots in the streets of London after […]
