[…] Jim Rutenberg and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 30 August, 2018 or . 18 For an example of this, see ‘National Enquirer owner admits to “catch and kill” payment to ex-Playmate’ at or . 19 Infamous, as Press Secretary, for holding zero press conferences. See (e.g.) ‘Press Secretary Who Never Held Briefing Leaving Her […]
[…] theory I can remember coming across and may mark the beginning of the current age of conspiracy theories. Like all good conspiracy theories, Gemstone is impossible to kill off and interest in Gemstone continues. Shawn Hamilton, for example, has an essay, ‘A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File turns 40’, in which he discusses […]
[…] in these columns because I have nothing to offer which others don’t have. It has always seemed obvious to me that the US state would destroy – kill, imprison – Assange, one way or another. Pour encourager les autres.50 Recently the appearance of an excellent big piece by Andrew Cockburn, ‘How the media failed […]
[PDF file]: […] the essay in the early 2000s. In an interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this year, Mearsheimer revealed that the editor of The Atlantic offered them a “$10,000 kill fee” if the publication didn’t print the article. Mearsheimer said, “That’s the fastest $10,000 we ever made.” 6 But why would something as mainstream as The […]
[…] Union had no aggressive military intent and had developed its nuclear arsenal in response to NATO’s. The Russia of today is an aggressive, violent, kleptocracy, willing to kill tens of thousands of people – including its own citizens – in pursuit of geopolitical ends and the personal wealth of its leaders. Russiagate ‘Russiagate’ centres […]
[PDF file]: […] politically powerful. I do not believe that the CIA, the military and/or the anti-Castro Cubans did the dirty deed in Dallas but lots of them wanted to kill JFK – and precisely because they saw the Kennedy administration as dragging its feet where Fidel was concerned. Some of this secret diplomacy is discussed in […]
[PDF file]: […] peace overtures and that this will be listened to by the British government’. What emerged was a plot, presumably instigated some weeks earlier, to kidnap, interrogate and kill Hess. Liddell later records that in July 1941, seventeen Polish and two British officers, from a special forces base at Inverlochy Castle, Fort William, tried to […]
