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The corrupt UK High Court is nothing but an extension of the corrupt US Department of Justice (sic) and has done its duty to serve as Washington’s agent. The charges against Julian Assange make no sense. Assange is not an American citizen, but the charges against him assume that he is a US citizen in the pay of a foreign government. He is charged with spying on the US. Other countries spy on us, as does our own government and commercial firms, just as the US spies on other countries and commercial firms, but no one is arrested for doing … Continue reading →
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One of John le Carré’s final public appearances came on his 88th birthday – October 19 2019 – when he was one of the hundreds of thousands of people taking part in the “Together for the Final Say” march calling for a second Brexit referendum.
There’s a fine photograph of him on that day, with his walking stick and “Bollocks to Brexit” sticker, eyes stern under beetling brows worthy of Methuselah. This is not just the look of a man annoyed that he’s having to miss out on a birthday tea at Claridge’s: this is somebody full of righteous fury about the seemingly never-ending stupidity of those who have run the world over the nine decades of his existence.
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On December 12, one of the world’s greatest spy masters slipped from this world. Not from an assassin’s bullet in a darkened alley, poisoning from a nerve agent, or a wretched betrayal by someone wrongly trusted; but pneumonia. After a lifetime entwined with spycraft, David John Moore Cornwell, formerly of MI5 and MI6, passed away in his hospital bed, aged 89.
As the news broke the following day, the cover name Cornwell had created 60 years ago – not for a secret assignment, but for an espionage novel he was writing while still working for the British intelligence services during the Cold War – began trending worldwide.
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Today marks a year since the development sector's lighthouse had gone out.
On this day last year, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the larger-than-life spearhead of Brac, passed on from this world to the next after suffering from a malignant brain tumour.
In 1972, Sir Fazle had wrapped up his life in London as an accountant to move to his war-torn, newly-liberated country to establish Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, known to all as Brac.
At first it was just a small relief and rehabilitation effort carried out in a remote area of Sylhet division. Over the last 47 years, it expanded itself to provide services to over 100 million people in 12 countries of Asia and Africa.
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The celebrated spy author Le Carré died in Cornwall on Saturday at the age of 89
Spy author John le Carré tarnished MI6 and his novels were a 'stain' on the secret service, its former head has claimed.
Sir Richard Dearlove blasted the writer - real name David Cornwell - for 'successfully tarring the moral reputation of his former colleagues'.
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His comments come in stark contrast to current 'C' Richard Moore, who called him a 'giant of literature' as he led tributes to le Carré after he died from pneumonia on Saturday aged 89.
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HOLLYWOOD HILLS—Celebrated spy novelist, John le Carre’, whose real name is David Cornwell, died of pneumonia on Saturday, December 12, at the age of 89.
His family put out a statement indicated that he passed away Saturday night of pneumonia at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in England and “David is survived by his beloved wife of almost fifty years, Jane, and his sons Nicholas, Timothy, Stephen and Simon.”
Jonny Geller, Le Carre’s literary agent and CEO of the Curtis Brown Group said in a statement:
“John le Carre’ was an undisputed giant of English literature. He defined the Cold War era and fearlessly spoke truth to power in the decades that followed…I represented David for almost 15 years. I have lost a mentor, an inspiration and most importantly, a friend. We will not see his like again.”
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