Misc reviews These reviews of mine were written for other publications. Robin Ramsay Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011, £20.00, h/b. After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and reexamining the previous inquiries, […]
[PDF file]: […] on Trump? Perhaps a clue can be found in the infamous meeting between Don Trump Jr. and the Russians who claimed to have compromising material on Hillary Clinton. The Trump team were sent a four-page memo ‘asserting that Democratic donors had allegedly evaded paying US taxes on Russian investments. They had been donors to […]
[PDF file]: […] magazine could describe him as the fourth most powerful man in the United States. He was, at this time, a pillar of the neo-con opposition to Bill Clinton. Murdoch established the neo-con Weekly Standard with a start-up cost of $3 million in 1995. Edited by William Kristol, it became ‘the flagship of the neo-cons’, […]
[PDF file]: […] from an offshore radio station owned by a Swiss-based electronics company later shown to have had a connection to the Lockerbie bombing.6 Following the Suez parallel, if Clinton had won the US Presidency in November 2016, is it possible the UK might have dumped Brexit by now? The ‘centre’ emboldened by numerous US telephone […]
[…] late 2007-early 2008: for example, one could simply read the July 9 2007 issue of Fortune magazine to discover who the major backers of John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama were. One could also have read Business Week (25 February 2008) or the Los Angeles Times of 21 March 2008. Through February 2008 […]
[PDF file]: […] His boss at the time was John Smith, leader of the Labour Party and a member of the Bilderberg steering committee. Another attendee in 1991 was Bill Clinton. One can see the value to them of these people mixing with each other, many on the launch pad of their careers. One can imagine Clinton […]
[PDF file]: l Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 Kathryn S. Olmsted Oxford University Press, 2009, £12.99, p/b 1 1 If I was going to be generous I would say ‘Close but no cigar’ to professor Olmsted’s account. She has at any rate identified one of the central issues, expressed in […]
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia . . . In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing […]
[PDF file]: […] is still supposed to be a secret1 2). This influence has continued: after the Iraq war Labour paid £530,372 to Mark Penn, a Washington-based adviser to Hillary Clinton. During the run-up to the 2005 election Penn ran secret polling of British voters from his company’s call centre in Denver while he stayed at the […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been the collapse of […]
