[…] involvement of Sheikh Bakhsh, came the appointment of his representative Talat Othman on Harken’s board. After the Bahrain deal, Othman met with the President, and his National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft, three times in 1990.(20) Bush Snr. also met with the Saudi bin Laden family, in 1998 and 2000 in Jeddah. Jean Becker, his […]
[…] by U.S. multinational capital of a goodly chunk of the so-called Third World in the post-war era.(4) A similar role was played by the British intelligence and security services in the British state’s attempts to hold on to its empire in the post-war era.(5) It is becoming increasingly clear that MI5 have played a […]
[…] party’s headquarters at King St, besides the civilised, Euro-communist CP she belonged to. (3) Enter MI5 So far, so straightforward but, like most stories which involve the security services, there is more here than meets the eye. According to Falber, in 1958, the year the clandestine payments started, ‘MI5 were planning to break into […]
[…] On 26 February, 1994, the Independent reported David Thursfield, Assistant Chief Constable of West Mercia police, as saying that his officers had been ‘been given access to security service, military and nuclear industry files and had found no links to Miss Murrell.’ No doubt. But they can’t seriously have expected to find such links, […]
[…] that extra productivity would be linked to increased wages, thereby securing the labour force’s allegiance to free market capitalism, was not supported by everyone. When the Mutual Security Agency (MSA) replaced the European Recovery Program (ERP) in 1954, the idea that there should be an equal share-out of the gains of higher productivity between […]
[…] from government departments was a mere seven, (3) though others were moved sideways. Cyril Cooper, General Secretary of the Society of Technical Civil Servants, was deemed a security risk because he had been a member of the Communist party ‘many years ago’. (4) The flames had been partly fanned by Chapman Pincher during his […]
[…] with the perspective….. that, ultimately, their road to power will be a violent one’. (20) Not only has Brady’s passing reference in the document to the advantageous security aspects of decentralisation to be seen in the context of struggles with the ‘political soldier’ NF group — i.e. answering their arguments — later contributions by […]
[…] Peter Dolder. The following August, C. C. Van Den Heuvel, a civil servant in the Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs, – an officer of the Dutch Internal Security Service (the BVD) – set up in The Hague a foundation for research into human ecology. This appears to have been a front organisation: it soon […]
[…] series of diplomatic and strategic moves which were happening in the South Atlantic before and at the time of the Falklands War. “The Politics of South Atlantic Security: a survey of proposals for a South Atlantic Treaty Organisation” looked at the task of “relating western concerns for South Atlantic security to the interests and […]
[…] government contracts from 2004 to 2006. Not bad, considering the total value of contracts for that period came to $25 billion.(18) The Human Rights First report Private security contractors at war: ending the culture of impunity argues that the US Department of Justice’s ‘systematic failure to hold private security contractors operating in Iraq and […]
