[…] centrist ‘Keep Calm’ group in the Labour Party, Stewart went to the United States in the summer of 1954. (13) He most approximated the ideology of the liberal American Democrats, being to the left on social policies but an anti-communist cold-warrior on defence and foreign policy. This was the ideal of the liberal wing […]
Ideas and Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain: Volume 1 edited by Michael David Kandiah and Anthony Seldon Frank Cass, London/Portland, Oregon, 1996 £29.50 As the title suggests this really contains two separate though not unrelated areas. The first is a series of shortish essays about so-called think tanks in the UK which follow on from […]
[…] probably still has) connections with British intelligence. Intermittently funny in an unintentional way, Good Times Bad Times is a revealing portrait of the intellectual bankruptcy of the liberal end of the British ruling class. RR Contact A.F.N.Clarke (Pan, London 1984) Direct, earthy account by ex-Parachute Regiment Captain of his experiences in Northern Ireland from […]
Mike Hughes ISBN: 0 948994 06 1. Available on PC disc for £4.99, and as a hard copy plus disk for £19.99 from: 1 in 12 Publications, 21-23 Albion St, Bradford, BD1 2LY. Web: http://merlin.legend.org.uk/~brs/catalogue/cat97.html Available for download at: http://merlin.legend.org.uk/~brs/catalogue/ftpindex.html This book/disk is actually two things which do not connect up too well. The bit … Read more
James Carroll Boston: Houghton Mifflin; 2006, $30 h/b Juan Bosch was the president of the Dominican Republic from 1963-65. He tried to implement land reforms and was removed from office by a military coup which was then supported by the deployment of 20,000 US troops. In 1967 he published a little book called Pentagonism: […]
[…] (1983) pp52/53Here it should be mentioned that masonry in France is still of political significance. It is split into several organisations. The French Grand Orient is politically liberal, and has sharply attacked the Nouvelle Ecole school in its journal Humanisme (March 1981). The more conservative, pro-British Grande Loge Nationale Francais is based in Neilly-sur-Seine, […]
[…] became GLC representative for Hackney North. A few weeks later he was selected as Labour Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Hampstead defeating Vincent Cable (currently a Liberal Democrat MP) in a contest for this position. Ted Knight became PPC for Hornsey at the same time. They would both have thought it likely that […]
[…] genuine intellectually and morally retarded voice of ‘national security’. L’etat? C’est nous. EXTRA! EXTRA! is the newsletter of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting), a US left/ liberal response to AIM (Accuracy In Media). It is edited by Martin A. Lee and its Executive Director is Jeff Cohen. It is 16 pages, A4, beautifully […]
Kissinger Commission Letter in International Herald Tribune 22nd January 1984 from one Eugene L. Stockwell who testified before the Kissinger Commission on Central America. He writes: “During my hour and a half testimony most of the commissioners repeatedly indicated that they believed today’s Nicaragua to be as bad or worse than Nicaragua under Somoza; Mr … Read more
Gecas and Special Branch A wonderful example of the reach and power of intelligence connections was provided in January. Why did the British state refuse to extradite Anton Gecas, the WW2 Lithuanian war criminal, to the Soviet Union in 1976? Turns out not only had Gecas worked for SIS at the end of WW2, he’d […]
