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Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan
[PDF file]: […] syndicate’s Asian Meyer Lansky. Captured by the Japanese after the invasion of the Philippines, Lewin ran gambling operations even in jail. He later became part of a Murder Incorporatedstyle outfit set up by top McArthur aide named General Charles Willoughby who ran Army Intelligence (G-2) during the U.S. occupation of Japan. He worked closely […]
The British Right – scratching the surface
[PDF file]: […] member of British United Industrialists); G.K. Young and Ross McWhirter. Another interesting member was Gerald Howarth. Howarth is the MP said recently to have been plotting the murder of Gerry Gable, but for our purposes his role in the early 1970s in the Prosecute Peter Hain campaign is more interesting. 37 Considering the overlapping […]
What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths
[PDF file]: […] Fascists, like Rolf Gardiner, became pioneers of the nascent Green movement, promoting agricultural reform and ecological awareness. Some became involved in pro-Arab, antiZionist activism, particularly following the murder of two British sergeants by the Israeli terrorist group, Irgun, in 1947. Others, such as the Earl of Portsmouth, went to Africa after the War to […]
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The President and the Provocateur: The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox
[PDF file]: […] little harsh on this).3 Even so, as Cox describes Kennedy’s conflicts with most of the major lobbies in America, from the mafia to US Steel, his eventual murder feels unsurprising. He does not suggest a solution. He asks (p. 284): ‘Was there an assassination conspiracy, as Bertrand Russell and his Committee feared?….’ This is […]
Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all
[PDF file]: […] then aged 40, who had returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam disillusioned and disgusted with his nation’s ‘bloody, hopeless, uncompelled, and surely immoral prolongation mass murder.’ Ellsberg declared: ‘I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. […]
Trump, the US Military and the American Empire
[PDF file]: […] of 2018. Until recently they have by and large maintained their silence regarding their experiences as members of the Trump administration. In the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd and of Trump’s threatening to use troops against Black Lives Matter protesters, Mattis has spoken out. The violent clearing of peaceful protesters from […]