The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. * new* Spook-wise Christopher Moran’s ‘Company Confessions: The CIA, Whistleblowers, and the Cold War’1 takes us back to the 1970s and the appearance of CIA ‘defectors’, Philip Agee, Frank Snepp and Victor Marchetti, […]
[PDF file]: […] a botched burglary ordered by President Nixon. And it wasn’t the 19 June 1972 break-in at the Watergate complex. The previous year, on 13 June 1971, the New York Times had published the first batch of the Pentagon Papers, a splash falling six inside pages deep. They cited documents that showed the fabrication, fiction, […]
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[PDF file]: […] scare tactics directed at the trade unions, for being too shrill, a little too right-wing and, frankly for being a woman. She refused to serve under the new leader, Jim Prior, but retired with some grace to the Tory backbenchers, along with a cohort of bitter followers, determined to keep the flame of free […]
[PDF file]: […] proper controlling mechanism. It has to have a mechanism where someone is accountable for what the actions are and that has to be transparent, especially in the new processes and the new country which, thank the Lord, Northern Ireland is becoming and, God willing, will continue to be.’ 9 The investigations carried out by […]
[PDF file]: Inside the Trump Administration Revolution: Trump, Washington and ‘We The People’ K T McFarland New York: Post Hill Press, 2020 In Trump Time: A Journal of America’s Plague Year Peter Navarro St Petersburg, Florida: All Seasons Press, 2021 The Chief’s Chief Mark Meadows St Petersburg, Florida: All Seasons Press, 2021 I’ll Take Your Questions […]
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[PDF file]: […] of Tunworth Media interviews with Shayler in the initial period after he first went public do Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Lebovich, ‘Assessing Al-Qa`ida’s Presence in the New Libya’, CTC Sentinel (Vol. 5, Issue 3), March 2012 . 11 See the profile of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the Mapping Militant Organizations section […]
[PDF file]: […] ingratiate himself with as many of the members as possible, particularly those who were middle-aged/elderly working class. He often gave the impression that he came from Telford New Town, while showing, or appearing to show, great interest in their views. Douglas Eden, a key figure on the Labour right at this time who also […]
[PDF file]: […] neo-liberalism was enthusiastically embraced. Instead of rolling back the Thatcherite assault on the working class and the welfare state, they proceeded to consolidate it. This was what New Labour was all about. Certainly Brown made an original contribution to their partnership. It was he who recognised that the super rich could be persuaded to […]
