[…] 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 […]
In 1998, I left the New Labour Party, more out of exhaustion than anything else. For two or three years, I had been at the forefront of the drive to modernise the Party through promoting internal party democracy, first as Deputy Chair and Founding Member of Labour Reform, and then as Coordinator of the […]
[…] part of the CIA/Mafia milieu will not be sent to jail. (1) In 1943, the prominent Italian-American anti-fascist editor, Carlo Tresca, was murdered in the streets of New York. The case against New York Mafioso, Carmine Galante of the Bonanno family, might have seemed air-tight; he was under surveillance at that time, for parole […]
[…] Clinton guarantees a 50-billion dollar loan to Mexico to bail out the collapsing stock market. The Mexican market gambles of American companies like Goldman Sachs, a huge New York investment banking firm and one of Clinton’s principal financial donors, are thereby secured. January Sergio Moreno Perez is replaced by LUIS ANTONIO IBANEZ CORNEJO as […]
[…] is hard to disagree with Jenkins’ comment: ‘This is bureaucracy gone mad. It embodies the over-regulated, service-quantified, risk-averse, publicity-obsessed style of government that has come to typify new Labour in government.’ Mad or bad? Jenkins’ piece raises the central question about this government: are they corrupt cynics or are they really the dummies they […]
[…] Wilson’s private secretary, and Lady Annabel Birley, who had separated from Mark Birley and was now living with Goldsmith. In July 1975, after Thatcher had become the new Conservative leader, Goldsmith met Wilson. Latching on to Wilson’s concerns that his office and home were being bugged, Goldsmith volunteered his own private security company to […]
Mandy, The Independent and Europe As pictures of H’Angus the Monkey, the new elected mayor of Hartlepool, filled the news pages, it emerged more quietly that the other public face of that poor North-East town, Peter Mandelson, had joined the international advisory board of News and Media, the owners of The Independent and The […]
[…] Kennedys set Mongoose going underneath everything. It looks like a contradiction. Is it? PDS: This is particularly complicated because the Church Committee chronology suggests that there were new operations authorised against Castro in June ’63, which, of course, seems to work against my thesis that they were learning to live with Castro. Let me […]
[…] Staff (DIS) used a human source who claimed – falsely, of course – that Iraq had been developing chemical and biological warfare capacities. But to use this new ‘source’s’ intelligence in this way, the expert in the field, Dr Brian Jones, of the Defence Intelligence Staff, was simply not told about the source or […]
[…] play. (18) First pick your voters In Florida’s Seminole county alone, 15,000 absentee votes were registered, mainly for service personnel – traditionally, Republican supporters – posted abroad. New York lawyer Harry Jacobs announced that he would sue Seminole county’s election supervisor, Sandra Goard, after overhearing a county election official say that Goard had allowed […]
