[…] evidence that he was suffering from it while Prime Minister, nor for some years afterwards, and his medical problems need to be disassociated from his anxieties about coup plots. It is not even a case of post hoc ergo propter hoc: the illness came after the allegations and not the other way around and […]
[…] too much credit in the system, the Bank of England, on their behalf, would put the interest rates up. What a truly wonderful racket! It was a coup by the Bank of England – on behalf of the clearing banks in particular and the City in general. Having persuaded the Tories to reintroduce ‘freedom’ […]
[…] (I attempt a general overview of U.S. relations since World War 2 to the drug traffic, including Genovese, in my ‘Foreword’ to Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup (Boston: South End Press, 1980): pp1-26 Nicholas Gage, Mafia,USA (New York, Dell, 1972): p157-8 U.S. Congress, Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to […]
[…] investment came from Harvard University’s endowment fund, on whose board of directors sat an old Bush family friend, Robert Stone Jnr. Then in 1990 came Harken’s biggest coup – winning a Bahrain deal against bids from oil giants Amoco and Chevron. This was despite the fact that Harken had never been engaged in international […]
[…] to shame. He should also be given credit for quoting KGB files, in so doing discarding cold war paranoia (still prevalent if the official reaction to Costello’s coup is any guide) in the cause of sound scholarship. Despite all this it is difficult to avoid finishing the book without feeling disappointed. There are some […]
[…] importance, likewise you should go for a substantial sum.’ Hounam said if Murrin acted to set up Oyston, he must be decisive: ‘It’s got to be the coup de grâce’ for Oyston. Murrin discussed his next meeting with Oyston in the taped conversation with Peter Hounam of the Sunday Times in which Hounam suggested […]
[…] United States than most Americans are willing recognise.’ (p.21) ‘At about the same time in February 1948 when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was carrying out a coup d’état in Prague, rightwing forces in the southern half of divided Korea, then under the control of the United States, were slaughtering at least thirty thousand […]
[…] Kirk died while we were still digesting the Watergate scandals, before the major Watergate-related disclosures about CIA dirty work and assassinations, and before the CIA- assisted “Kerr coup’ against Gough Whitlam in Australia. Even so, many people close to Kirk believed he was murdered. He was a very sick man, certainly, but he should […]
[…] a meeting in Rome with his MI6 contact in February 1957. Between then and the following November Khalil was given a total of £162,500 to finance a coup and restore the monarchy. This was terminated on “23 rd December when Nasser announced the existence of the ‘restoration plot’ – as it became known – […]
[…] became a European commissioner in 1972, one of the many Atlanticist Gaitskellites to find the Labour Party an increasingly inhospitable home as the Vietnam War, the Chile coup, and other US foreign policies failed to chime with younger party members as they had with Thomson’s older post-war and early Cold War generation. Lord Thomson […]
