[…] Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists 1968-1980 (Zero Books, 2022). 1 1 There was a dramatic move from the Old Left to a more disparate New Left. The book is very much a celebration of resistance and its sound track. The FBI had never confined their activities to the surveillance of the […]
[PDF file]: Finks How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers Joel Whitney London and New York: O/R Books, 2016 1 paperback, 328 pages, bibliography, notes, index W hitney had the bright idea of exploring some of the activities of the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) in the 1950s and 60s by showing how the […]
[PDF file]: […] neo-liberal project from the 1930s onwards.’ (emphasis added) 5 4 5 129 Summer 2010 This is shocking? What did the author think was happening? Bloody Sunday A new study of the events leading up the Bloody Sunday killings in Northern Ireland, ‘Bloody Sunday: Error or Design?’ by Niall Ó Dochartaigh, concludes: ‘ …the killings […]
[PDF file]: […] 1986 was that the City asked for lighter and lighter supervision – and boy, did it get it. It was part of the Faustian pact that got New Labour into power in the first place. (“What you in the City have done for financial services,” enthused Gordon Brown in 2002, “we as a government […]
[PDF file]: Books Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq John W. Dower New York: W.W. Norton, 2010, $29.95 (US), around £20 (UK), h/b Simon Matthews John Dower is a retired Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an expert on USJapanese relations. His book compares Al Qaeda’s surprise […]
[PDF file]: Some Warren Commission stuff……… Anthony Frewin A CRUEL AND SHOCKING ACT The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination Philip Shenon New York: Henry Holt & Co, 2013 Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 625 pps. The subtitle is misleading. It should read, more correctly, The Secret History of the Warren Commission. But hold on, that’s not […]
[PDF file]: […] of the global-financial world. But with a spin. It included these sections. ‘It would be odd if the current integration of the world economy did not produce new global elites – business people and financiers who run global companies and global politicians who steer supra-national organisations such as the European Union (EU) and the […]
[PDF file]: […] 1956 he was presenting radio shows in Denmark and later wrote guide books for students studying abroad. In 1958 he quit Denmark and travelled via London to New York. Roberts points out that Shinkfield was a fluent speaker of Danish and Norwegian. He could not have learned these at school (they weren’t on the […]
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[PDF file]: […] drove a large US Buick around London and moved in the same circles as Princess Margaret, and, like her, kept some extremely louche company. He turned his new home, a town house in Lownes Square SW1, into a private gambling club modelled on the Clermont and Les Ambassadeurs. (The property was used in 1968 […]
