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2011: a Reagan odyssey
[PDF file]: […] when reviewing the events of the past weeks. The vicious and obscene snuffmovie broadcast throughout the world in which the conquest of Libya is consummated by Qaddafi’s murder was not accidental. When Ronald Reagan called Qaddafi a ‘mad dog’ he was following a carefully honed script. This ‘mad dog’ imagery – that of an […]
South of the border
[PDF file]: South of the Border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must I hate to say ‘I told you so’. . . . In Lobster 90 I reviewed Ben Macintyre’s The Siege, about the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.1 In that I commented that, due to its ‘amalgam of fact and fiction’ along with an ‘(albeit brief) appearance […]
View from the Bridge 89
[…] surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.15 The Intercept describes how the CIA used the murder of its Athens station chief, Richard Welch, in 1975 to discredit not only defecting CIA officer Philip Agee but also, more importantly, Democratic Senator Frank Church, […]
Must, Border
South of the Border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must I hate to say ‘I told you so’. . . . In Lobster 90 I reviewed Ben Macintyre’s The Siege, about the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.1 In that I commented that, due to its ‘amalgam of fact and fiction’ along with an ‘(albeit brief) appearance […]
An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett
[PDF file]: […] Dr Kelly on which Goslett takes a self-denying ordinance. Norman Baker concludes his book with the suggestion that Dr Kelly had made enemies in Iraq and his murder might have been committed by them or people acting on their behalf. For that, to the best of my knowledge, we are also lacking corroborative evidence. […]
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[…] Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for his shooting.31 As soon as Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley’s […]
Kincora: Britain’s shame by Chris Moore
[PDF file]: […] by the police to investigate it and seven official inquiries were obstructed by the British state at the behest of MI5; and Colin Wallace was framed for murder for trying to expose it. There are four main threads to this book. Moore was a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland and one theme is his […]
The Lone Star Speaks: Untold Texas Stories about the JFK Assassination by Sara Peterson and K. W. Zachry
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[…] Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for his shooting.31 As soon as Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley’s […]