Tell me lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq ed. David Millar London: Pluto, 2003, £12.99, p/back One of the downsides of appearing every six months is that occasionally books arrive just too late for the issue in which they should appear and by the time the next issue appears they … Read more
[…] see Colin Wallace and re-examines the attempt to frame him for bank robbery. A very good summary of both the Wallace material and the South African ( BOSS) connections to the plots in the 1970s. Hain, who unfortunately failed to unseat the dreadful David Mellor in Putney at the General Election, made some forthright […]
Let’s start with the easiest question: what do George Robertson, Chris Smith and Marjorie ‘Mo’ Mowlam have in common? They are, of course, all strong Tony Blair supporters in the new Labour Cabinet. And what about Peter Mandelson and Elizabeth Symons? Not yet quite Cabinet members, but both are key figures in the ‘modernising project’ … Read more
[…] other side of the Pennines from the North East is striking. The account of how Jack Cunningham obtained Whitehaven is legendary: his father, Andrew Cunningham, was GMB boss in the North East, Chair of the Labour Party Northern Region and an Alderman in local government. He arranged the selection for his son who was […]
[…] Cuban President Fidel Castro, his brother Raul Castro, Che Guevera and five other revolutionary Cuban government leaders. Former associates of Cuban dictator Batista and of Resorts International boss Santo Trafficante were, according to this early 1960 Nixon-Trafficante agreement, to be selected out of the Operation 40 participants by Santo Trafficante – and then secretly […]
[…] of resignation, ‘When are we going to have the courage and political maturity to tell the Mexican people that we suffer from a sort of narco-democracy?’ His boss, DIEGO VALADES, Salinas’ fourth Attorney General, quits a few days later. 18 May At his first news conference since replacing the murdered Posadas Ocampo of Guadalajara […]
[…] House memorandum which suggested the settlement and compensation for Olsen’s widow, was written by the then Deputy White House Chief of Staff, Dick Cheney, to his then boss, Donald Rumsfeld. The memo recommended an official apology by the president so as to forestall any trial or official hearing on the Olson case. Otherwise, the […]
[…] big lie. In a statement to the Civil Service Appeals Board in 1976, when Wallace was appealing against his dismissal from the Army (appealing successfully), his former boss, Peter Broderick, Head of Army Information Services, said of Wallace: “He had constant and free access to information of high classification and extreme sensitivity.” Ware is […]
[…] Labedz, editor of the CIA-funded quarterly about the Soviet bloc, Survey ……feeding lies about my work to columnists on a scurrilous magazine, frightening my House of Lords boss, George Jellicoe, with insinuations that could but not remind him of the difficulties he had himself faced as Burgess’ and Philby’s close colleague in Washington in […]
[…] Within a year, he was forced to resign his first premiership when it emerged that he was being investigated for corruption himself. Craxi had been the political boss in Milan, Berlusconi’s home city, and the place where he made his first fortune in two housing deals. He had achieved this through two means. First […]
