[PDF file]: […] it is likely to be the biggest for 100 years.1 That said, it lends a certain perspective to the events of the last 50 years and a new twist to the ‘Crisis, what crisis?’ comment (which was falsely attributed to ‘Sunny Jim’ Callaghan, Prime Minister in the late seventies). It turns out that, judged […]
[PDF file]: The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine Bernard Regan London and New York: Verso, 2017, £16.99 ISBN 13 9781786632470 Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom Norman G Finkelstein Oakland (California): University of California Press, 2018, £27.95 ISBN 9780520295711 Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner London and […]
[PDF file]: […] Daily Mail’s correspondent in Germany since 1921 and who completely disagreed with the pro-Nazi stand taken throughout the 1930s by the paper’s proprietor, Lord Rothermere. Will Wainewright’s new book explores this remarkable situation and it’s a story made all the more relevant by the revival of the Far Right today. Reynolds had started out […]
[PDF file]: […] developed at Area 51. But Jacobsen has bookended her account with sensational material about the Roswell event: did a flying saucer with or without aliens crash in New Mexico in 1947? Jacobson interviewed an early alumnus of Area 51 who told her that, yes, there was a saucer; and yes, it did contain bodies […]
[PDF file]: […] unable to detect the payoffs in London, or, having made one failed attempt, just gave up. This is simply not credible.1 The point is that MI5 k new about the ‘Moscow gold’ and said nothing about it. Had the existence of Soviet funding been revealed in the late 1950s, the CPGB would have been […]
[PDF file]: […] a pointer to the fact that this is a story which has been told before. Unger’s book has received a lukewarm reception since it doesn’t really break new ground; but it does have the merit of placing a lot of otherwise widely disseminated bits of information into one volume. Bringing the jumble of bits […]
[PDF file]: […] Jefferson Morley, however, ’Chaos’ had 40 employees and ‘utilized’ 130 agent sources – Jefferson Morley, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton ( New York: St Martin’s Press, 2017) pp. 218-9. Further, Morley contradicts Rafalko’s claim. 1 The Latin vale in the sense of goodbye, farewell, suits him admirably: always […]
[PDF file]: […] Hollywood, they may have heard of Lenin because they know the story of Tsar Nicholas and the fate of himself/family. Couple this information vacuum with a ‘ new’ local narrative bankrolled in London by anti-Putin oligarchs such as the late Boris Berezovksy – ostentatious Russian philistines with too much money in their pockets rushing […]
[PDF file]: […] the gags are pretty much writing themselves now. Deferred prosecution agreements – buying your way out of trouble ‘A deferred prosecution agreement, or “DPA,” is a mechanism for resolving a case against a company that is, essentially, an unofficial form of probation. Although usually used to resolve a criminal case, civil enforcement agencies like […]
[PDF file]: […] whoever won these and the Emperor Bao Dai on the formation of a national government. Simultaneously Cambodia and Laos would gain independence. The intention with all three new countries appears to have been that, albeit self-governing, they would have remained part of a Francophone domain rather like what later did happen with the French […]
