This piece by Daniel Brandt began as a short letter commenting on my review of Right Woos Left by Chip Berlet (Lobster 23 p. 34). I wrote back and asked if he would like to expand it. And so he did, writing almost the whole thing at one long sitting. Anyone who joined the U.S. … Read more
[…] America but for readers of this journal it won’t be of much interest. Sort of Greg Palast lite; Gore Vidal without the style. The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder and the Vatican Paul L. Williams Prometheus Books, New York, 2003 h/b, $27.00 www.prometheusbooks.com A short (200 pages, large print) and sharp history of the Catholic […]
[…] men to ‘kill on sight’. The squad is known as Echo Four Alpha (or E4A), sometimes working within special support units. Constable John Robinson, acquitted of the murder of Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) member Seamus Grew was a member of an 11-strong special support unit, operating from Police Headquarters in Knock. In fact […]
Since the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London on 5 May 1980, the Special Air Service (SAS) has become a cultural phenomenon as much as a military one; has become, in the words of its former Director, Peter de la Billiere, ‘a living embodiment of the individualism of the British’. Their heroic exploits have […]
[…] account, was “so British as to belong to a past backed by an Empire that ruled the waves,” a world where “theft, deception, lies, mutilation and even murder are possibilities.” (p13) Cavendish and Young were to work together from 1973 in Unison, the co-ordinating committee which was to play its part in the anti-Wilson […]
[…] those perceptions seem very odd indeed. Carr quotes a letter from one of the AB defendants: ‘Killing Mr Heath, Mr Maudling and Mr Powell would not be murder, the removal of tyrants such as these can only further the cause of humanity.’ Or take this from AB’s Communiqué No 7: ‘The Angry Brigade became […]
[…] have doubts about their innocence. I need to be convinced 16 But in 2012, due to advances in DNA testing technology, Burgess was convicted of a third murder, committed in 1966. When approached and asked about how the APPG’s October 2025 event came to be organised, and whether Sir David Davis or Maltin PR […]
[…] have doubts about their innocence. I need to be convinced 16 But in 2012, due to advances in DNA testing technology, Burgess was convicted of a third murder, committed in 1966. When approached and asked about how the APPG’s October 2025 event came to be organised, and whether Sir David Davis or Maltin PR […]
[…] have doubts about their innocence. I need to be convinced 16 But in 2012, due to advances in DNA testing technology, Burgess was convicted of a third murder, committed in 1966. When approached and asked about how the APPG’s October 2025 event came to be organised, and whether Sir David Davis or Maltin PR […]
[…] have doubts about their innocence. I need to be convinced 16 But in 2012, due to advances in DNA testing technology, Burgess was convicted of a third murder, committed in 1966. When approached and asked about how the APPG’s October 2025 event came to be organised, and whether Sir David Davis or Maltin PR […]
