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Who Killed Roberto Calvi
One of the most mysterious murders of Italy's murky Cold War history was that of Roberto Calvi, the head of the Banco Ambrosiano, and the man dubbed 'God's Banker' because of his business relationship with the Vatican. A Rome jury has recently acquitted...
The Leopard and the Fox - Tariq Ali and the BBC
The year was 1986, the subject Pakistan and its military coup of 1977, and the outcome a thoroughly British case of cold war sponsored censorship by the BBC. Tariq Ali discusses with Three Monkeys Online the circumstances behind the censoring of his drama...
Defending History - Deborah E. Lipstadt and Holocaust Denial
Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt became a household name when David Irving sued her for libel. The trial, Irving vs Lipstadt, in a sense, put the Holocaust on trial. Irving lost his case, with the court accepting that he had "persistently and deliberately mi...
Sparkle of crimes in their voices - Aziz Chouaki and The Star of Algiers
Aziz Chouaki was forced by threats to leave his native Algeria. His novel, The Star of Algiers, portrays a society collapsing, with his central character caught between the 'sirens of the North, and the roots of the South'. It's a novel that tells ...
In Defence of a Liberal Education.
Would we accept the foundation, with tax-payers money, of political schools? For example, a neo-conservative school here, or a communist school there, where pupils would be instructed uncritcally in a political ideology? Dr. Stephen Law, author of The ...
Birth Crisis - Sheila Kitzinger on Birth in the 21st Century
Birth in Western Europe and America has become a heavily medicalised event, where women entrust themselves and their babies to a team of medics who, with the aid of technology and science, manage the dangers of birth. Why, though, are so many women trauma...
Bombing Civilians - WWII's 'moral crimes'. A.C. Grayling in interview.
Is bombing civilians ever justified during wartime? Did the bombing of German and Japanese cities hasten the end of World War II? What constitutes a war crime? Just some of the questions that A.C. Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College Lond...
Rocco Buttiglione Responds - The Moral Maze Part II
Italian Minister Rocco Buttiglione brought the European Commission into crisis in 2004. In a recent interview in Three Monkeys Online, on ethics and morality, Dr. Richard Holloway criticised Buttiglione's decision to stand for the commission. In this in...
From the Armalite to the Strawberry Smoothie - 21st Century Ireland, North and South.
By rights Henry McDonald, born and raised in the Catholic working class district of the Markets in Belfast, should have grown up Republican, Nationalist and Catholic. Instead he grew up an afficionado of punk rock, football, and international politics. Mc...
Add it Up - an interview with the elder statesmen of disaffected youth, the Violent Femmes
Over a period of twenty-five years their songs have become an obligatory addition to the record collection of any frustrated, and self-discerning, teenager. At the same time songs like Add it up and Blister in the Sun are regulars on compila...
Fallujah. Uncovering a massacre - interview with Maurizio Torrealta, co-producer of Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre
One year on from Operation Phantom Fury/al-Fajr, the second battle for Fallujah, the American military have been forced to admit to the use of white phosphorus as an offensive weapon. Three Monkeys Online looks at the background to the battle in Fallujah,...
Entering the Moral Maze - A discussion on religion and ethics with Richard Holloway
Even the Catholic church admits that the power of organised institutional religion is on the wane. Where once we (in Western Europe and America) were obliged to follow the moral dictates of the dominant religious forces, now many moral choices fall to the...
N.A.T.O. Gladio, and the strategy of tension.
That a clandestine paramilitary network, co-ordinated by N.A.T.O. existed throughtout Western Europe due the Cold War is a fact. Less clear is the relationship between this network and the wave of right-wing terrorism that swept across Europe in the '70s ...
The View from Dublin - Police Protection?
Mayday protests in Dublin turned out to be, for the most part, peaceful, despite months of dire predictions to the contrary. Is this to the credit of the Gardaí and their policing operation?...
The View from Bologna. Careless talk? When censorship isn't such a bad word.
Italian Television is a constant talking point, both in Italy, and in Europe as a whole - for all the wrong reasons. During April, however, even hardened cynics were shocked by events broadcast, and the implications....
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Gods and Monsters - I am Kloot
Third album from Manchester trio I am Kloot, with more than a passing echo to George Harrison's elegant guitarwork....
