[…] law in May 1951, the month after he became Prime Minister. In the dispute that followed, Musaddiq offered to compensate the AIOC but Britain demanded either a new oil concession or a settlement that would compensate for loss of future profits. ‘In other words’, according to Iranian scholar Homa Katouzian, ‘the Iranians would have […]
[…] Clothing Stephen Marshall (Guerilla News Network, $13.22. Available from and ) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein, (London: Allen Lane, £25.00) ‘When new (forms of capitalism) emerged in the past …they sparked a flood of analysis and debate about how such seismic shifts in the production of wealth were […]
[…] left, the right and the state. But, boy, some of it is hard work. There is a 26-page article with the subtitle, ‘The Curious Case of the New Communist Party, Searchlight and the Nazi honeytrap….(run by a hermaphrodite)’, which is all but unintelligible to me because, as with his pamphlets, the information is obscured […]
[…] some of the queries. We are left to pick the available material clean, a process which still has its rewards, and waiting for the occasional drip of new material from unsuspecting quarters. In 1976 the HSCA began a search of Department of Justice and FBI files in connection with the assassination inquiry. During the […]
[…] SEC 1950 1ST SEC (COMM) ATHENS 1953 FO 1955 1ST SEC AND CONSUL MONTEVIDEO 1957 CHARGE D’AFFAIRS 1959 CARACAS 1960 FO 1962 UK MISSION TO THE UN NEW YORK 1964 1ST SEC FO 1965 RETIRED ATTRIDGE, DEREK ANTHONY B 12.6.41 GCHQ 1961 MINISTRY OF DEFENCE 1962 GCHQ 1965 FO 1967 ZAMBIA ZOMBA 1969 FCO […]
Introduction I began writing this in the early 1980s. If you were then reading the Guardian or the Observer, and k new a little, simple economics, it didn’t take genius to notice that while the UK’s manufacturing economy was being decimated by Conservative Party economic policy, the City of London was booming. More interestingly, […]
Greg Grandin New York: Metropolitan books, 2006, $25.00 Reviewing a biography of Harold Laski in 1953,() the historian A. J. P. Taylor remarked on ‘the dilemma of our times’: that ‘no-one who believes in liberty can ever work sincerely with communists, or trust them, yet no-one who has socialism in his bones can […]
[…] Gill and Macmillan, 2006, £22.99, h/b When Fred Holroyd first made his disclosures regarding the activities of SAS Captain Robert Nairac to Duncan Campbell of The New Statesman in 1984, they were credible because Holroyd was a loyal Army Intelligence Captain with absolutely no sympathies for IRA terrorism. (1) Despite efforts on the […]
[…] interest, thereby by-passing democracy. It clarifies how the European Roundtable of Industrialists (ERT) in particular performs an agenda-setting role, resulting in the prioritisation by the EU of new policies benefitting transnational corporations (TNCs). This is evident in plans for ‘completing the internal market’, which will mean deregulating and liberalizing a number of sectors such […]
[…] industry and included laser systems from TRW and Martin-Merietta and RF weapons from Rockwell and Hughes. In America, as the arms industry gets rolling in a promising new field, it is accompanied by the legitimation process. Harlan Girard sent me a copy of a report of ‘An Independent Task Force’ sponsored by the Council […]
