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Travesty
In 2006, Slobodan Milosevic died in prison in the Hague during a four-year marathon trial for war crimes. John Laughland was one of the last Western journalists to meet with him. Laughland had followed the trial from its beginning and wrote extensively on it in the Guardian and the Spectator, challenging the legitimacy of the Yugoslav Tribunal and the hypocrisy of "international justice." In this short book, Laughland gives a full account of the trial---the longest trial in history---from the moment the indictment was issued at the height of NATO's attack on Yugoslavia to the day of Milosevic's mysterious death in custody. "International justice" is supposed to hold war criminals to account, but---as the trials of both Milosevic and Saddam Hussein show---the indictments are politically motivated and the judicial procedures are irredeemably corrupt. Laughland argues that international justice is an impossible dream and that such show trials are little more than propaganda exercises designed to distract attention from the war crimes committed by Western states.
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The Life After Death of Frank McBride
Never having known her father, and stonewalled by her mother, Cornelia invents Fearless Frank, the dashing hero she is sure her father would have been. Her obsession drives her remarkable life from daughter of a Broadway star, to her kind of star -- one that shines in Hollywood. All the time, she is looking for Frank McBride. Then see meets Amos Eliot. The children of Bong Sat together at last seek their own reckoning for the loss of their fathers, and all who died long ago. This book completes the Laughland Saga. The first title, the story of Amos Eliot, is Laughland.
The Tainted Source
An ideology is sweeping Europe and the world which threatens democracy and the rule of law. The post-national ideology, which posits that nation-states are no longer capable of running their own affairs in a modern, interdependent economy, confuses the constitution of a state with the power of its government, and ignores the importance of the sense of community essential to any democratic debate. A rigorous synthesis of historical and philosophical arguments, THE TAINTED SOURCE is a powerful appeal in favour of the constitutional foundations of the liberal order. Post-national structures - multinational companies, 'region-states' and supranational organisations such as the European Union - are corrosive of liberal values, to such an extent that John Laughland makes it devastatingly clear that the post-national ideology formed a crucial core of Nazi economic and political thinking. Like the European ideology of today, it was predicted on dissolving the nation-state and the liberal order.
Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research (Online) no. 2002-C15
This report summarizes observations & structural data collected in the area of the Walker Lake shear zone in the Committee Bay supracrustal belt, central Nunavut. It first reviews the general geology of the metasedimentary & volcanic rocks of the Prince Albert group and the intrusive rocks (tonalite, granite) which were observed in the shear zone. It then describes the three generations of ductile structures that were identified in proximity to the shear zone, and offers some preliminary interpretations regarding the relationship of the shear zone to regional deformation.
Laughland
LAUGHLAND is a multi-generational thriller born with an act so heinous it took on a life of its own ruining lives and killing people for more than twenty years. It fell to Amos Eliot, the exceptional son of one of the victims, to confront the evil. The carnival called Laughland sprang to life deep in the wasteland of the American West. The midway blazed with light. The roller coaster car made its steep climb, and at the far end the carousel turned while raising and lowering its horses accompanied by what Teresa Gill felt sure was a Bach fugue rich with its thundering organ cords echoing off the hills. "It's beautiful," she said. "Laughland was born at Bong Sat," said Amos Eliot. "The battle ...
A History of Political Trials
"This is a formidable and well-documented counterblast to a developing modern orthodoxy, expressing a point of view that many readers will not even have suspected existed, let alone read."--Anthony Daniels, Spectator "A useful and controversial contribution to the debate about victor's justice, and a valuable warning that international war crimes tribunals need to operate with precision and care."--Jonathan Steele, Guardian The rapid development of the use of international courts and tribunals to try heads of state for genocide and other crimes against humanity has been welcomed by most people, because they think that the establishment of international tribunals and courts to try notorious d...
