The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

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[PDF file]: […] by the Republican soon-to-be president candidate, George W. Bush, as his running mate. Together, the two oilmen would take the Great Game and pipeline politics to a new and dangerous level, one that would forever change the course of American foreign policy in Central Asia and the Middle East and, ironically, slowly erode America’s […]

On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA

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[PDF file]: […] the archives and into the public domain. After all, the embarrassment of having one’s errors pointed out is, or should be, outweighed by the exhilaration of making new discoveries. Bossy held to his conviction that ‘the duty of a historian is to tell true stories about the past’. That’s how you do history. Or […]

Misc reviews

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[…] landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers is a commentator on recent American history and the role in […]

Shameless!

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[PDF file]: […] Planning Council, believing that this would be a better use of his time than working – essentially – as a civil servant in London. To facilitate his new role in 1965 he resigned from Newcastle City Council. Later Smith came to regard this as a miscalculation. It turned out that Brown had little real […]

Brexit beginnings

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How our politicians helped to kill UK manufacturing

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was the case with the manufacturing industry suffering painful reductions in markets, capacity Dan Atkinson’s thoughts on what is coming are in his ‘The dawning of a new era?’ at . 1 It received one or two decent reviews but was largely ignored, as far as I can see. One was by Robert Skidelsky […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] – barely recorded outside the small number of persons interested in the arcane world of jet fighter procurement – has arisen in the saga of the two new ‘super-carriers’ under construction for the Royal Navy. It will be remembered that in 2010 there was talk of cancelling one of these, or at any rate […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] His latest was reported on the BBC News website: he wants a ‘global fund for education’.6 No doubt this will be next on the list after the new global financial system he wants is in place. Labour and the City W ho is doing the economic thinking for Labour these days? Well, Katherine ‘Kitty’ […]

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