[PDF file]: […] go codes (Strategic Air Command ’s one-size-fits-all nuclear launch code was 00000000), but there were no recall orders. As Ellsburg relates, base commanders and bomber pilots had real autonomy to use their nukes; yet there was no system in place to stop them, in the event (for example) of an error of judgment, or […]
[PDF file]: […] US involvement in the ‘pirate’ radio stations of the 1960s, Robert Henderson’s piece on Enron accounting, John McFall’s account of casualties of the US empire, to my notes on the economic crisis, America’s (failing) empire and this country’s relationship to it is clearly the major theme. And how could it be anything else? Because […]
[PDF file]: […] respond to critics of the Warren Commission’s verdict on the assassination of JFK: namely that those criticising Warren’s conclusion should be described as ‘conspiracy theorists’. The author notes that this turned out to be ‘one of the most successful propaganda initiatives of all time’; the ‘conspiracytheory label has become a powerful smear that, in […]
[PDF file]: […] received some glowing reviews from the major media. I read only the second half of this nicely produced, thoroughly bound 260 page paperback: the essays on the New Statesman under Kingsley Martin; Encounter, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA; and Karl Miller and the London Review of Books. These essays are very […]
[PDF file]: […] silence with the police’ towards the end. Appendix 4 Part of the Public Interest Immunity certificate issued to prevent Mrs Sanderson suing the Chief Constable of Cleveland for false arrest. Appendix 5 Press report of the restoration of the listed dovecot on the Boston Spa property rented by Sanderson. Sanderson is on the roof. […]
[PDF file]: […] account there isn’t one of them you would have enjoyed talking to. (Listening to is probably more accurate; these people were transmitters not receivers.) There is no real indication from these biographical sketches of why these people ended up with their heads full of this particular rubbish. There is just the occasional glimpse of […]
[PDF file]: […] (HIA). But while the mainland UK inquiry has the power to compel testimony under oath, the Northern Ireland version did not. When this was announced we k new that another Kincora cover-up was going to be perpetrated and British secret state awareness of the Kincora abuse was going to be denied yet again. Because […]
[PDF file]: […] to stop it being published – what the publisher of every book about intelligence hopes for – I didn’t pay any attention: even if it contained something new it wouldn’t be reliable enough to be of use, so why bother? But there it was in my local library and as I flipped through the […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘domestic terrorist threat’, comprising eco-sabotage, anticorporate demos and suspected Jihadis has been created from the whole cloth. It is the same as it ever was, with one new wrinkle: preventive detention used before planned demos. But the radicals are being put in prison; they are not yet being killed, as were some of the […]
[PDF file]: Notting Hill in Ye Olden Tyme Murder in Notting Hill Mark Olden Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2011, 196pps, illus., notes and sources, p/b, £11.99. The murder of the black carpenter Kelso Cochrane on the streets of Notting Hill by a white gang in 1959 has never gone away. Never gone away because it was […]
