[…] like a full-time job and I don’t have the time. Plodding along years behind the buffs, I came across Walt Brown’s Treachery in Dallas (Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995), an interesting book, dotted with new (to me) bits and pieces. What leapt out at me was a section on pp.306-8 which contrasts the […]
[…] a non-profit public interest organisation based in Washington DC. CDT’s mission is to develop and advocate public policies that advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies.’ A lot of info on the U.S. debate on electronic privacy and the FBI’s attempts to have greater surveillance powers with regard […]
[…] suggested this interpretation to him. If there’s any truth to it, however, it becomes worrying in a political sense. With the Guardian moving ever closer to the New Labour establishment, what else wouldn’t they investigate if they came across it? Is the smell of incense currently wafting from the Guardian offices covering a more […]
[…] nuclear stockpiles and relations between the superpowers (‘Verification of the Salt 2 treaty’ in 1980 SIPRI Yearbook pp285-313). SALT 1 forbade the creation of more than one new generation of nuclear weapons and the encryption of data that could conceal such developments (‘Verification of the Salt 2 treaty’ in 1980 SIPRI Yearbook pp286-303). In […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to attack the Soviet Union found in the US national archives was code-named MAJESTIC! (1) Cannon commented: ‘The website is devoted, in general, to Tim Cooper’s ‘ new’ MJ12 documents, which I believe are phonies. He’s been receiving these things for the past few years. The ‘old’ MJ12 documents – the ones originally given […]
[…] as much as any other organisation – as ‘a little country punching above its weight’. This identity, because of Iraq, has been sacrificed and, to date, a new one not found. At the moment, a key consumer marketing trend is ‘humanising branding’, the creation of a brand-person. This merges celebrity icon with product: e.g. […]
[…] 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, […]
Down Under David Lange may have come and gone and the New Zealand Labour Party may have blazed a rightwards trail for Tony Blair et al to follow, but the New Zealand anti-military, anti-spook campaigns continue. The latest journal to document the activities of the spooks and military in that part of the Pacific […]
[…] to the SIS – blamed their exiled ‘kings-in-waiting’ for supplying information that, not surprisingly, advanced the latter’s singular objective: to replace Saddam Hussein as President. SIS under new management Under new management, a battered SIS is now being forced into ‘co-ordination’ (sometimes confused with ‘consolidation’, which may also be happening) which has the laudable […]
