A Franco-German Bomb? A study by the German historian Werner Abelhauser casts new light on Franco-German efforts to provide the youthful European Economic Community with military capability.(1) The essay is notable because it adds another dimension to our grasp of how and why the EEC was formed. Most modern work follows from the thesis […]
[…] information runs the risk of being accused of treachery. That explains why the leaders of the national groups treat this problem with the greatest discretion.'(5) Indeed, the New York Times reported that the ‘Free Trade Unions (sic) in Exile… worked with underground anti-communist forces in Eastern Europe.'(6) The ICFTUE also had access to a […]
[…] News: Big Swing to BAP’. This began: ‘No less than four British-American Project Fellows and one Advisory Board Member have been appointed to ministerial posts in the new Labour government.’ New names on the BAP roster include Geoff (from Militant via Red Wedge to the PM’s Office) Mulgan, Julia (not now, daddy, I’m busy) […]
Dodgy dossiers Steven Kettell, author of Dirty politics? New Labour, British democracy and the invasion of Iraq (London: Zed Books, 2006), argues that New Labour wanted regime change in Iraq before Bush and before 9/11 and that the production of the WMD Dossier was one of the key components of a broader political strategy […]
[…] revelations of the 80s, they had conceded a notional form of parliamentary accountability with the creation of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With members who either k new nothing about the subject, or who, like chair Tom King, had been part of the system as a minister, said committee had investigated nothing of consequence […]
The journal, The Round Table, originally the public face of the secret Round Table network, has reappeared after folding in the late 1970s. It’s new editorial board includes MPs Donald Anderson, Guy Barnett, Robert Jackson, Robert Rhodes-James, and Cabinet Minister Timothy Raison. Other well-known names about London’s elite circles involved are D.C. Watt and […]
In this essay I offer some informed speculation on the assassination of John Kennedy. I have called this a new hypothesis, but in fact it is the elaboration of a hunch about the case – but an interesting hunch, I think. I take as proven that there was a conspiracy to murder Kennedy and […]
[…] the Bolshevik menace. (20) The SOJ rests upon an ecclesiastical alliance of Roman Catholics, traditionalist Old Roman Catholics, and Russian Orthodox believers. Its members refer to the New Mass as an “unspeakable abomination” and take violent exception to the “infidel marauders” who have corrupted the Vatican in recent years. The order’s former grand master, […]
Thanks to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Contributions comments are always welcome. E-mail me on 101521.3515 @compuserve.com Electronic Privacy and Encryption Privacy and Human Rights http://www.gilc.org/privacy/survey/ New GILC/EPIC/PI report details the state of privacy in 50 countries. Includes Threats to Privacy; The Right to Privacy; Technologies of Privacy Invasion. The report was written by Privacy […]
[…] to argue that the ‘war’ had little to do with protecting Saudi Arabia or removing Saddam Hussein but was instead a manifestation of what he calls ‘ new militarism’. Whereas previous modern conflicts had involved most of the populace in what was by convention referred to as the war effort, the trend over the […]
