[PDF file]: […] my first article on the British influence on the world of Private Military Contractors (PMCs),1 I covered the period from the 1960s to the beginning of the new millennium. I showed that there was a distinct market (either genuine or created) for ex-servicemen to fight proxy wars for the government of the United Kingdom. […]
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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. * new* Dallas again We all have blind spots. Like many of the Kennedy assassination researchers, the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent […]
[PDF file]: […] to the latter half of the 20th Century is all part of the narrative sweep and one thing Mr Talbot does very neatly is to ‘frame’ a new narrative around the bizarre witch-hunts of the McCarthyite 1950s. For Mr Talbot, the entire episode is a show-trial (or, rather, a series of show-trials,), in which […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. * new* Dallas again We all have blind spots. Like many of the Kennedy assassination researchers, the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent […]
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[PDF file]: […] Otto Warmbier. He was the young American who was detained by the NK state on 2 January 2016. It was alleged that, in the early hours of New Years Day, the then 21 year old Otto Warmbier had stolen a state propaganda poster1 from a ‘staff only’ area of the hotel (the Yanggakdo Hotel, […]
[PDF file]: […] had established extensive connections with the ruling families and governments of the major Middle Eastern and African states. This proved to be a fertile ground for the new venture. In a brief history of Watchguard, within his wider 1 The name change was prompted by the overwhelming critical mass of negative publicity regarding incidents […]
[PDF file]: […] across to Heywood and Middleton in Greater Manchester. Two extracts will give you some flavour of his findings. Here’s Payne with David (now Lord) Blunkett, the former New Labour Home Secretary: ‘Blunkett agreed with my emerging conclusion that Labour’s collapse in the red wall was in part due to structural changes, not purely the […]
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