Peter Hounam News Today

Concealing the Deliberate Israeli Attack I’m not exactly sure when I first heard of the Liberty incident of 1967. The story was certainly a dramatic one, the attack upon an almost defenseless American intelligence ship by Israel’s air and naval forces late in the Six Day War fought against several Arab states. Over 200 American servicemen were killed or wounded by Israeli machine-guns, rockets, napalm, and torpedos, representing our greatest naval loss of life since World War II. Only trem...

A new business has launched in Dunkeld that's set to pioneer a new type of event pairing malt whiskies, special gins and fine chocolates at luxury venues across Scotland.

May 19, 2021 © Photo: Flickr/IAEA While Israel’s large arsenal of nuclear weapons is exempt from any discussion, its government drives the suspicion of Iran’s nuclear energy program, writes Mehrnaz Shahabi. By Mehrnaz SHAHABI The attack on Natanz nuclear enrichment plant in Iran, on April 11, targeting underground centrifuges operating under (IAEA) safeguards, was an act of nuclear terror with the potential to kill and harm many thousands of human beings and irreparably contaminate the e...

Roy Greenslade described the phone call to a colleague on The Sunday Times as very amusing in a 2007 British Library recording on the history of the British Press that surfaced yesterday.

Over a lengthy career in journalism Roy Greenslade has written millions of words. But a handful out of a 4,000-word article in the British Journalism Review (and The Sunday Times) explaining his support for Irish republicanism and the IRA have now cast a shadow over all that went before. In the piece, he talks about his friendship with Pat Doherty, who has been named in parliament as a former member of the Provisional IRA. He states: “From very early on in our friendship [with Doherty and his...

We trace the connections between the terrorist group and a prominent journalist 5 March 2021 • 8:47pm Roy Greenslade has revealed that while working at the heart of Fleet Street he had been secretly devoted to the paramilitary cause The IRA weapons dump at a remote spot in the Welsh countryside was thought to be intended for a Christmas bombing campaign on the British mainland. In the autumn of 1989 the Sunday Times had heard that police were keeping watch on the secret cache but, with the a...