[…] ‘our European partners’. But the idea was that the UK would become a leader of the EU by virtue of it bearing the gospel of American neo- liberal ideas – the so-called Washington consensus. Hard though this may be to credit, the stupid schmucks really seem to have believed that the other EU leaders […]
[…] fides of their southern Irish counterparts, considering many to be still IRA men at heart, waiting for the opportunity to restart the war; or there was a liberal hope that limited self-government was a step towards some form of political rapprochement and reunion, albeit on different terms than before. Few were willing to accept […]
[…] genuine intellectually and morally retarded voice of ‘national security’. L’etat? C’est nous. EXTRA! EXTRA! is the newsletter of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting), a US left/ liberal response to AIM (Accuracy In Media). It is edited by Martin A. Lee and its Executive Director is Jeff Cohen. It is 16 pages, A4, beautifully […]
[…] the role that McCarry had while he was in the CIA.) McCarry presents a fairly positive picture of CIA people and activities (he was obviously on the liberal wing of the agency) and to judge by the acknowledgement by Alexander Haig to McCarry in the front of Haig’s memoire Caveat (1983) for assistance with […]
Web update Jane Affleck Thanks to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Comments and details of interesting websites are welcome: my email address is 101521.3515 @compuserve.com Freedom Of Information Campaign for Freedom of Information http://www.cfoi.org.uk ‘The Campaign for Freedom of Information campaigns against unnecessary secrecy and for greater public access to official and other … Read more
[…] of his insight shortly after election day. Who does Mr Morris think is to blame for the discrepancies in exit polling? Why, the usual monolithic conspiracy of liberal, leftie, terrorist-loving, media pantywaists, of course. Mr Morris’s extravagant claims are worth quoting at some length. ‘Exit polls,’ he (rightly) remarked, ‘are almost never wrong. They […]
George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the arrest … Read more
[…] compromise this work enough to mean that it is not definitive. Burrows is prepared to take the DIA’s Soviet Military Power at face value – something no liberal defence analyst is prepared to do – and also regards the process of actual analysis of overhead intelligence as a purely objective process, which the experience […]
Gordon Winter In Lobster 18, dated October 1989, under the headline: ‘Inside BOSS and After‘, you wrote the following: ‘Gordon Winter is an Englishman who was recruited by BOSS. His 1981 book Inside BOSS, was the first (and only) inside account of South Africa’s intelligence agency. We still think this is one of the most […]
[…] With Milner in South Africa (1936), vol. 8 of the Cambridge history of the British Empire (1929-59), 613-40, 34-8 J. Conway, The Round Table: a study in liberal imperialism, PhD diss., Harvard University, 1951 J. R. M. Butler, Lord Lothian (London: Macmillan, 1960) L. M. Thompson, The Unification of South Africa, 1902-1910 (New York: […]
