[…] thing, the budgets, the armies of fact-checkers and, indeed, the market for this sort of extended politico-analytical foray just does not exist over here. Writing from a New York Times ‘liberal’ perspective, he remains – in contrast to Chomsky, Cockburn and Hitchens – very much the critical insider. In keeping with this stance, however, […]
[…] brain); and so forth. The two issues from volume six I have seen are jumping with information, ongoing research and studies – all the signs of a new field developing at full tilt. In a note the editor, Simon Best, added that there is now a cheap, UK-manufactured shielding material that cuts EM frequencies […]
[…] was just the role of the CIA is false. None of these British reports have surfaced but over a 1000 pages of such reports made by the New Zealand US embassy to the State Department on the tiny NZ labour movement have been declassified and show surveillance down to the level of trades councils […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] though the core of Secret Agenda, is a small percentage of a text which is overflowing with fascinating bits and pieces. And perhaps its the superfluity of new information which has obscured one or two simple points which effectively wreck this central thesis. In the first place Hougan has no evidence, not a shred, […]
[…] Colin Wallace was putting together in Northern Ireland, on behalf of Information Policy, as part of Clockwork Orange. There is the same blend of known facts, intriguing new information, and the subtle insertion of ‘black’ material. All of which is held together, or given a ‘spin’, by the addition of a ‘theme’. The theme, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
