[…] 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]: […] a feature of not only the G20 meeting. It has characterised the responses of many individual governments around the world, and has certainly reared its head in New Zealand. Contrary to the expectations of many of us that the global financial crisis would be seen as a conclusive judgement on the failures of neo-liberal […]
[PDF file]: […] the Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA and 25% for Brazil’s Petrobras. In 2013 Reuters reported that President Peña Nieto ‘… proposed energy reform that would bring in new capital to help exploit Latin America’s third-largest proven oil reserves. The president hopes that by offering profit-sharing contracts with oil companies, crude output will jump, generating […]
[PDF file]: The Black Door Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac London: William Collins, £30 T his new book by two respected academics has a lot to tell us about how Britain is run. We are told, for example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party […]
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[PDF file]: […] Kennedy and the campaign to clear his name. The Undercover Policing Inquiry is going to hear, eventually, hear from the Special Demonstration Squad officer codenamed HN15 – real name Mark Jenner12 – who, amongst other tasks, spied on the Colin Roach Centre in Hackney, East London, where the ‘Free Malcolm Kennedy Campaign Justice for […]
[PDF file]: […] principles) and consistency with well-established historical facts (minimal rewrite). There are clearly a whole raft of theoretical issues in 1 Remarks of President George W. Bush, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 16 June 2003. 2 E.H.Carr, E.P. Thompson and Tristram Hunt have all taken this view. 3 See, for example, Philip E. Tetlock and Aaron Belkin […]
[PDF file]: […] He worked with Paul Foot on the Private Eye special, Lockerbie: The Flight from Justice and Allan Francovich in his 1994 film The Maltese Double Cross.1 This new book not only gives us al-Megrahi’s story, but enormous detail about Lockerbie drawn from Ashton’s encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject. It is not the author’s intention […]
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[PDF file]: […] was a military event), has done research that is exhaustive, but despite providing us with much fact about what happened, he moves us no closer to any real understanding. The advantage the Bugliosis and Posners have is that they don’t need to do that, and the reviewers who praise their books in the mainstream […]
