[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] does Gordon Brown understand British economic history? Or: does he understand economic politics? In any case, I would have been asking a question to which I k new the answer. Brown knows little of British economic history: he demonstrated this when he gave away control of interest rates to the Bank of England on […]
[…] of the American Defense Preparedness Association on November 16 and 17 1993, the following speakers presented papers on different topics of mind control, as part of the new, non-lethal weapons concept: Dr. George Baker (Defense Nuclear Agency — now Defense Special Weapons Agency, DSWA): ‘Radio Frequency Weapons — a very attractive non-lethal option’. Dr. […]
[…] US strategic doctrine. In the early 1980s, the first period of neo-conservative dominance in US politics, analysts of international relations were struck by similarities between the ‘ new cold war’ prosecuted by the Reagan administration and the great power stand-off before August 1914.(2) In both cases scholars noted the influence of a ‘cult of […]
[…] the British (Fontana) edition. When Summers finished the book he continued to follow up certain leads, particularly those connected with “Maurice Bishop” and Oswald in Mexico City.This new information was to appear in a series of articles, “The conspiracy that nearly led to holocaust” for The Observer. Unfortunately, owing to continuing legal difficulties with […]
John Smith: Old Labour’s lost leader? In non- New Labour Labour Party circles the late John Smith is remembered with great reverence.(1) Quite what this is based on escapes me. All I can identify is his dislike of Peter Mandelson: Smith kept him at bay therefore Smith was a good man seems to be […]
[…] is right there, at the hinge where business meets the politicians. Palast’s concerns are the main agenda: America, the power of the corporations; the institutions of the new world order – and, almost a sideshow, New Labour. In the last few years he has exposed the nature of the New Labour government in the […]
[…] US government during and after the Second World War, but rather at how they succeeded in effecting the integration of the Western European capitalist class into a new Atlantic alliance system The period 1945-50 is highly complex and debate still rages over the origin and nature of the ‘Cold War’: for example over the […]
