[…] chief local surrogate gone, the Carter Administration launched a rearmament programme (which as Sanders shows was in full swing before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan), and the new Cold War was on. Meanwhile the militarist wing of the US establishment had been mobilising. The coalition of hard liners in the intelligence community and the […]
[…] in the UK from the late 1970s, from the ABC trial, Statewatch, his Omega Foundation, through to his role in the revelation of the Echelon network. The New Zealand end of this American intercept network got exposed recently when The Christchurch Press got access to the papers of the late David Lange, former New […]
[…] that Labour could not be trusted to run the economy competently, a view frequently promoted thereafter by the Conservative Party and then, in the 1990s, by ‘ new’ Labour. The criticisms from the right were reinforced from the left by arguments that Wilson, his Chancellor Jim Callaghan and George Brown, the Secretary of State […]
[…] a very specific formula. The writer first notes with shock and disappointment the growing popularity of conspiracy theories and then goes on to provide explanations for this new popularity. This explanation almost always assumes that these theories about the ‘true’ nature of social reality exist to satisfy some psychological need in their audience. Perhaps […]
A new royalty? A few weeks before former BBC political editor Andrew Marr received two Broadcasting Press Guild awards – one as ‘best TV performer in a non-acting role’ – his journalistic colleagues were quietly made aware of a little drama in his own life. Typical of the message from editorial lawyers circulated among […]
[…] originally appeared as the subject matter of a long and extremely interesting article, ‘Destabilising the “decent people”‘ by Nick Anning, Duncan Campbell and Bruce Page in the New Statesman on February 15, 1980. This is still worth digging out, particularly for its detailed account of the context in which the memo was written. As […]
[…] the dismissal of DGSE head Admiral Pierre Lacoste and the resignation of Charles Hernu, the Defence Minister and responsible for DGSE. Socialist Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and new Defence Minister Paul Quiles gave former Chief of Army Staff General Rene Imbot the task of setting the DGSE house in order. The problems facing Imbot […]
[…] might defeat the Conservatives after 13 years in opposition. But Kinnock fell at the final fence in the election that year and by 1997, when Tony Blair’s New Labour wrested power from the Tories, Oyston was in jail, serving a six year sentence for the rape and indecent assault of a young woman. The […]
[…] mount IRA hoax bomb campaign by GERARD KEMP THE IRA is using children, some as young as ten years old, to make hoax bombs in Ulster. The new tactic is costing the Army hours of soldiers’ time as every suspected bomb has to be checked out. It often means sending in two armour-plated vehicles, […]
[…] Born Agains to the World Anti-Communist League (as was). If the territory is familiar from other works, much of the detail and some of the perspectives are new. Doing this kind of detailed, compressed work, Bellant faces in acute form the the basic problem we all have. X knows Y, who knows Z. Is […]
