[…] 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 […]
The other Bilderberg Between 1964 and 1966 there was a little-known attempt to establish a new Commonwealth conference modelled on the Bilderberg Group, with Prince Philip lined up to take a leading role. Nothing ever came of it, mainly because of the impact that Rhodesia’s UDI had on Commonwealth affairs. Newly released documents from […]
[…] alarmed at the dramatic upsurge of industrial unrest and political militancy that followed war’s end. Militant trade unionists, radical socialists, and communists were now seen as the new enemy, attempting to instigate a Bolshevik-style revolution in Britain and its Empire.(22) To combat the Bolshevik danger the Security Service collaborated with those right-wing groups actively […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] – Nov. 1, 1963 — as a “polite letter.” Onassis ate the livers of Hampton and Clark – in Chicago – after Chappa-quiddick – because they k new of the aborted JFK Chicago murder. I love Hearst. Cafarkis – Onassis’ former bus boy – is now a millionaire – hotels on the Riviera. I […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] I was now forbidden to publish his letter. By agreeing to publish his letter uncut I am censoring him? Pilger’s column on the British-American Project in the New Statesman of 16 October was lifted, unattributed of course, from Lobster 33. Why is it that journalists have to pretend that everything starts with them? Milner’s […]
[…] little to do with ideology and is more about organised drug dealing. ‘According to inside sources, the war between the BNP and C18 will move into a new dimension shortly, turning into a war between those who support the UDA and those who follow the UVF and are taking a strong line against the […]
