[…] British colony. It implies that IRA terrorists are authentic freedom fighters and in some ways allies of a British working class that they were actually trying to kill in large numbers during this same period. It implies that Loyalists are the stooges of imperialism, and hopelessly reactionary; that democracies do not have the right […]
[…] little to the sum of knowledge on the issue, it could well have been left alone until more was known.’ On the other hand in ‘Shoot to Kill’, the author is convinced. Dorril writes: ‘Those who accuse the British government of a shoot to kill policy in Northern Ireland, in the sense of a […]
[…] State Department Watch List. (14) As he had done earlier in Egypt, the sheikh “issued a fatwa in America that permitted his followers to rob banks and kill Jews.”(15) In November 1990, three of Mohamed’s trainees conspired together to kill Meir Kahane, the racist founder of the Jewish Defense League. The actual killer, El […]
Peter Levenda Waterville (Oregon); TrineDay; 2005, h/b, $29.95 This has a foreword by Jim Hougan who describes it as ‘one of the darkest and most provocative books that you are likely to read’. I’m a big fan of Hougan’s but I didn’t get this book. Not that it isn’t an interesting read: it is. … Read more
Free Ride Department Meanwhile the Rand Corporation (that liberal think tank in Santa Monica which helps decide which Russian cities should be atom-bombed) has declared that the federal government must continue to support an obscure military satellite system known as Global Positioning Network. Much beloved by high-tech hikers and rental car enthusiasts, the GPS supposedly … Read more
[…] Arise, Sir Gay — Phoenix, 8 May 1987, p. 6. A captain’s tale of horror — Mervyn Pauley, News Letter, 24 November 1989 pp. 8-9. Licence to kill? — Sunday Life 4 February 1990, pp. 8-9. Some addresses that may be useful: Fortnight 7 Lower Crescent, Belfast BT7 1NR Irish News 113 Donegal Street, […]
Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred ‘to … Read more
[…] research by an individual? I cannot think of one. Some of this material was presented in greater detail in Pepper’s first book on the case, Orders to Kill (reviewed in Lobster 32). This new account briefly reruns that and adds much new information and an account of the successful civil trial Pepper brought against […]
The Last Supper: The Mafia, the Masons and the killing of Roberto Calvi Philip Willan London: Robinson, 2007, £7.99, p/b Willan wrote the wonderful The Puppet Masters about post-war Italian politics and this is more of the same, a smaller patch examined in more detail. Never mind the subtitle: yes, he does reexamine the … Read more
[…] Was the formal NATO control meetings and a NATO management structure real? Did the Turkish state get permission from this management to use Gladio to kill thousands of people? Were the killings taking place in Belgium only a few miles from NATO HQ being directed by NATO personnel? If they were, this […]
