[…] the media treat, for example, the crushing of the Turkish trade union movement under the military regime in 1981 versus their treatment of Solidarity’s repression by the Communist regime in Poland in the same year. Or how they treat the Polish Communist government’s killing of the Catholic priest Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984 versus the […]
[…] by President Carter because he publicly opposed the withdrawal of some ground forces from South Korea. This may be explained by his membership of the World Anti- Communist League (WACL) which is heavily backed by the Korean Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. In 1980 Singlaub went to Central America with Reagan adviser and former […]
[…] ‘displeasure of UVF Brigade Staff’, and proferred his opinion that their lives and commitment to proletarian struggle — they were members of an obscure Maoist sect, the Communist Party of England — Marxist Leninist — might soon be discontinued. (11) At the very least, this letter is tasteless, but such sentiments (expressed both publicly […]
[…] network reviewed below, trace intelligence gun-for-hire Litvinenko’s activities with the so-called Mitrokhin Commission in Italy, the attempt by Berlusconi to use the Mitrokhin information to fabricate a communist ‘trace’ on his political opponents in time for an Italian general election. (And it seemed to have paid off, too: a communist smear was generated against […]
[…] but there isn’t any evidence. After the rioting in Handsworth in Birmingham, Shipley explained to the readers of the Daily Telegraph (12/9/85) that members of the Revolutionary Communist Party ‘were present in Birmingham in the days preceding the outbreak of this week’s rioting, ostensibly to hold meetings – some on the streets – about […]
[…] is not helping Indonesia militarily. It is, however, permitting us to maintain some contact with key elements in Indonesia which are interested in and capable of resisting Communist takeover. We think this is of vital importance to the entire Free World.(2) A Defense Department official reiterated in 1998 that the training program was to […]
[…] book Stalin and German Communism appeared some years ago, a number of reviewers made the point that she still saw herself as a socialist or even a communist, even after her high-profile ‘anti-communist’ ventures. Regarding Ignazio Silone, the Suddeutsche Zeitung (15 October 1998), citing an Italian periodical, reported that Silone was ‘between 1928 and […]
[…] sizeable population of heroin addicts was in the U.S. It was, however, understandable in terms of national policy, if one recollects in 1959 all the leading anti- Communist U.S. proteges of the region – Ngo dihn Nhu of South Vietnam, Sarit Thanarat and Prapas Charusathien of Thailand and Phoumi Nosavan of Laos – were […]
[…] and the last thing he would have wished on himself was another Cuban crisis in his first days in office. The FBI, the great seekers of ‘ Communist conspiracies’ may be presumed to be eager not to be revealed as having missed the big one, the only such ‘communist conspiracy’ worth a damn since […]
[…] takes the reader on a tour of practically the entire spectrum of the American right, from the prosetylising end of the Born Agains to the World Anti- Communist League (as was). If the territory is familiar from other works, much of the detail and some of the perspectives are new. Doing this kind of […]
