The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

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[PDF file]: […] he argues. When it comes to describing military offensives, the government give us ‘remotely piloted air systems’, ‘precision weapons’ and ‘collateral damage’ rather than bombdropping drones that murder civilians. Conversely, alongside these euphemisms for hiding state violence, there are also euphemisms for stripping away the rights of individuals. Since 9/11 a world has been […]

Also noticed by Robin Ramsay and Anthony Frewin

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[PDF file]: […] not Dennis Lehane the American crime writer of that name. This is Denis (one ‘n’) Lehane, the co-author with Martin Dillon of the 1973 Penguin Special Political Murder in Northern Ireland. Lehane was a journalist and this book is his account of what befell him when he declined to be recruited by the CIA. […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] has been known for a couple of years. Much the same information was included in chapter 10 of Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.35 Daily Mail blogging: it’s a lonely place In the latest instalment of his ‘View from the Bridge’, Robin Ramsay mentions Peter […]

The Super-rich Shall Inherit the Earth by Stephen Armstrong

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[PDF file]: […] one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought Chelsea FC ‘to protect himself against assassination’, although quite […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

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[PDF file]: […] out significant details you will read here.7 Shenon on NPR: Philip Shenon and Larry J. Sabato, ‘How the CIA Came to Doubt the Official Story of JFK’s Murder’ or . 5 HAVANA AP – by Daniel Harker: ‘Castro Blasts Raids on Cuba – Says U.S. Leaders Imperilled by Aid to Rebels’, 9 September 1963. […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] politicians accounted for the dreadful state of Israeli politics. The political right wing continued to deny the Palestinians a homeland and of course, the zealots did eventually murder their own prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. My mentor knew his stuff and told me that he was working directly with Al, a word that […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of hatred being whipped up that he ‘feared the day would come when the the president’s rhetoric would lead one of his supporters to harm or even murder a journalist’. (p. 2) The Enemy of the People, though, is a chronicle of his reporting of the Trump Presidency, of how ‘America has changed right […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] But he was also a part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, resigning in 1975 with the rank of Captain. Wallace ‘had been dealing with a Protestant murder group and paedophile operation out of the Kincora Boys’ Home’. (p. 30). There was no ‘murder group’ at Kincora I have ever heard of and Bloom […]

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