Jane Kelsey, Pluto Press, London 1996, £14.99 Kelsey describes how a handful of bureaucrats in the New Zealand state, backed by some of the big New Zealand companies, seized control of economic policy in New Zealand and imposed on it a bizarre amalgam of the IMF restructuring programme traditionally imposed on the Third World, […]
[…] story we want to go back over.’ Back over? On 4 July the Observer ran a third of a page on the political situation in Nigeria, ‘ New rules, new date, same old fraud on Babangida’s election.’ Roughly; for the first time the Northerners lost control in an election, so the army promptly ruled […]
[…] been started for the staffs of the East African forces going to Burma. Lengthy reports and descriptions of Pacific actions, Japanese tactics and weaponry received weekly from New Delhi, Melbourne, the U.S. Mission and Eastern Fleet were quickly analysed and turned into training and recognition aides by a team of Japanese speakers and experts. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] that a Directorate colleague had statements and witnesses ready on the premises to give evidence against suspended members of Newham branch.'(8) (Emphasis added) At the meeting a new ‘Executive Council’ was elected, containing Nick Griffin on the one hand and Martin Wingfield, Andrew Brons, Paul Nash, Tom Acton and Joe Pearce on the other. […]
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 […]
[…] the expense of the royal family.’ () Flashing lights If the crash wasn’t a simple accident, how was it engineered? The laser gun theory has resurfaced, with new witnesses claiming to have seen ‘an enormous radar-like flash of light’ caused by a device fired by the pillion passenger on a motorbike which had followed […]
[…] regime of Salvatore Allende (1); and to the United States, where David Kennedy, President of Continental Illinois Bank is said to be a “conspicuous friend of the new power brokers in the Order of Opus Dei.” In France, Opus Dei has had a particularly notable influence going back as far as 1938. It became […]
[…] accepted cartels (market fixing). Its market-share, however, has been under threat for years from surviving members of the cartel; and they have all been under threat from new, sophisticated arrivals. Anything that damages the brand – supposedly offering alternative worlds and values – kills it. Those who lobbed the missile at its HQ in […]
[…] major hand in launching it via the 1984 Jonathan Institute conference. (See the book review, Lobster 13 p 20). The Israeli state’s interest lies in getting this new definition of ‘terrorism’ into common currency so they can assign the PLO to it, thus justifying their continuing repression.) Jilian Becker/Institute for the Study of Terrorism […]
