[…] SIS, becomes a consultant/researcher and stumbles across the traces of a Russian spy and influence network based on Oxford University, involving some of the people he k new when he was an undergraduate there. In this setting Beaumont – whether ex-spook or not – has written a very good, nicely written and gripping account […]
[PDF file]: Destiny Betrayed JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case James DiEugenio New York: Skyhorse, 2012, $16.95, paperback This is the second edition of DiEugenio’s book. The first edition is among the hundreds of JFK assassination books I have not read. DiEugenio is very good indeed, as a quick perusal of some of his writing at […]
[PDF file]: […] pay later Budget’ at or 3 ‘The differences between the right of the Labour Party and the left of the Conservative Party were so small that a new word, Butskellism, was coined to describe this middle-ground consensus.’ John Blundell in 1984 at . 4 market forces. Littlewood commented that ‘ . . . there […]
[PDF file]: […] finance. Having colonized the economic and political systems of the large 3 James S. Henry and Bill Bradley, The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy (New York: Basic Books, 2005). nation states where most of us live, offshore finance has gone a long way in capturing our attitudes too.’ In his final […]
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[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. * new* More Broon At the end of my comment on Gordon Brown (subhead Broon below) I wrote ‘I might take Brown seriously if he offered us just a smidgeon of mea […]
[PDF file]: […] were the most powerful force in British imperial politics at least until the end of World War I: ‘Grey was not the puppet-master; the men of the new policy – Bertie, Hardinge, Mallet, Tyrrell and so on – were not manipulated or controlled by him, but worked alongside him as the members of a […]
[PDF file]: […] The Consulting Association was focused specifically on the ‘threat’ of union activities in the construction industry and was essentially the League’s unit in that field under a new name. Caprim was exposed in 2000 but TCA remained a secret until 2009 – when Chamberlain began writing about it. This book is that Lobster essay […]
[PDF file]: […] covert operations and terrorism The Darkest Sides of Politics, II State terrorism, “weapons of mass destruction”, religious extremism and organised crime Jeffrey M Bale Routledge: London and New York, £29.99 per volume, p/b Robin Ramsay Where to begin with this enormous publication that has over 900 pages between the two volumes? Jeffrey Bale is […]
[PDF file]: […] a decent person defending the indefensible. Nevertheless, the war was being won, she assures us. The US Surge and the Sunni Awakening had turned the tide. ‘The new religion was Counter Insurgency, which we called COIN’, she tells us. But it was all thrown away by the incoming Obama administration, which was determined to […]
