[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 […]
[…] that would hardly be a surprise. Perhaps he was simply seeking to be a part of the story. 14 Ray and Mary La Fontaine, Oswald Talked: the new evidence in the JFK Assassination (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 1996) pp. 323-325. In the versions of the photographs on-line I cannot see this scar. eyebrows. I notice […]
[PDF file]: […] by the Royal Physician, Viscount Dawson of Penn. Although it was kept from the public at the time, this fact is not in dispute and Lord Dawson’s notes, published in 1986, constitute a ‘signed confession’. It transpires that the death of a Monarch is never recorded on a formal death certificate. Is this the […]
[PDF file]: […] for doing the same.”’ Still, a good thing Margaret Thatcher was about in 1982 to ignore those jellyfish from the Foreign Office and insist that she k new in her bones that the Falklands were ours, right? ‘Now Mrs Thatcher was fully focused. Were the Islands really British? Once Carrington had assured her that […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] appeared with more horse’s mouth tales of either the same plot, or a parallel one. He also brought documentary evidence with him: mainly his 3 See . notes, made at the time. Both these sources were tainted. Wright had his grievance over his pension, and a general air of “flakiness”; and Wallace had just […]
[…] for Press and Broadcasting Freedom’s book on the 1984 miners’ strike. In that I repeat for the umpteenth time Peter Wright’s story in Spycatcher that MI5 k new about the covert Soviet funding of the CPGB in the 1950s and neither exposed it nor tried to stop it. Wright is rubbished repeatedly by Andrew […]
[PDF file]: […] Moreland Press, 2015. 987 pp., illustrated, notes, index. This is a monumental work based on some twenty-five years of archival research and personal interviews. There is much new information here that fills out the sketchier accounts on many matters in other works. However, despite a valiant effort, Caufield does not prove that the American […]
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[PDF file]: Malevolent incompetence Chaos and Caliphate Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East Patrick Cockburn London and New York: O/R Books, 2016, £19/$28, p/b The first striking thing about this book is that the author survived long enough to write it. Cockburn has spent nearly 20 years years, mostly in the […]
