[…] the validity of the most radically altered version of Duran’s statement.) At least two ex-DFS officers who were also former CIA agents have been named by the New York Times in connection with the Colosio assassination of 1994; and one of these, ex-DFS Chief Miguel Nazar Haro, was also involved in the investigation of […]
[…] and asked if he would like to expand it. And so he did, writing almost the whole thing at one long sitting. Anyone who joined the U.S. New Left in 1967 and continued to define this event as a point of departure over the next 25 years is going to have some stories to […]
[…] the shield does not protect Britain. Saddam tells the head of his nuclear warfare programme to set the controls of the missile for London …….’ John Lloyd, New Statesman, 28 August 2000 Even as far back as 1972, the arrival of John Lloyd as editor of Time Out was seen by some as an […]
[…] short time later this merged with a small group in the Coventry area which had been greatly influenced by the radical US environmentalist Paul Ehrlich. (18) The new political party was called People. (19) It contested 11 seats in the February 1974 general election, obtaining in some of these in the West Midlands quite […]
Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate Attempts by intelligence and law enforcement to control new technologies Intelligence/law enforcement concerns Intelligence and law enforcement agencies world-wide have in recent years become concerned that more widespread use of advanced technologies, such as encryption, digital technologies and the Internet, will compromise their ability to fight crime and […]
[…] and output.’ (emphasis added) This is the heart of it on this side of the Atlantic. Economic policy thinking between the years between 1979 and 1997, when New Labour took office, had been dominated by the fear of inflation getting out of control as it did between 1972 and 1976. How many times did […]
[…] US citizen; and therefore there could be no real conflict of interest between them. With the collapse of Enron this homely philosophy has taken a knock. The new economy, an economy which would be ‘asset-light’ in the words of Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling, has begun to look suspiciously like a snow job. Asset-light has become […]
[…] of Defence’s Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) has been generally reported as a financial scandal. More important is what it tells us about the politics of New Labour. There are two dimensions to this: first there is New Labour’s commitment to big business and in particular to the arms industry; but second and, […]
BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Hutton said that Labour ‘is the natural party of business’,(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, ‘rebranding’) in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson’s boast that he had made […]
[…] immediate demonstration shots, not just against Warsaw Pact forces engaged in conflict against NATO forces, but also against targets in the western Soviet Union itself, using the new and highly accurate Pershing II ballistic missile. This provoked fears that NATO first use would quickly be seen by Soviet planners to threaten their core interests, […]
