[…] 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 […]
[…] economic crises. From the perspective of the British establishment the great merit of Brandon was, first, his ability through his Sunday Times articles to carry to the liberal intelligentsia the case for the special relationship, and secondly, his talent for delivering to senior British politicians and diplomats his well-founded insights into what their opposite […]
Tom Nairn London: Verso, 2002, hb £13 I really like Tom Nairn. He is wonderful writer and this is a delight. If you’ve read Nairn all you need to know is that this is more of the same. But if you haven’t I’m not sure how to convey what he is about. This is … Read more
‘Everything is going to change’ JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters James W. Douglass Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2008, h/b, $30.00 I am writing this immediately after Barack Obama’s victory in the US Presidential election, almost half a century after John Kennedy became the first, and thus far … Read more
[…] 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
[…] tell anyone – not even my wife. They will go with me to the grave, and that is where some of them should stay.’(12) Dr. David Kelly Liberal Democrat MP, Norman Baker, gave an account of his investigations into the death of David Kelly at a public meeting in Lewes, East Sussex, on 11 […]
[…] ‘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 […]
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
