[…] of one of the major operating divisions of the Department of Plans – a cover for covert operations – part of that being the secret funding of liberal foundations and student organisations. When these activities were revealed (via Ramparts magazine) in the 1960s, Meyer was kicked upstairs to become head of the CIA London […]
Gordon Winter In Lobster 18, dated October 1989, under the headline: ‘Inside BOSS and After‘, you wrote the following: ‘Gordon Winter is an Englishman who was recruited by BOSS. His 1981 book Inside BOSS, was the first (and only) inside account of South Africa’s intelligence agency. We still think this is one of the most […]
[…] With Milner in South Africa (1936), vol. 8 of the Cambridge history of the British Empire (1929-59), 613-40, 34-8 J. Conway, The Round Table: a study in liberal imperialism, PhD diss., Harvard University, 1951 J. R. M. Butler, Lord Lothian (London: Macmillan, 1960) L. M. Thompson, The Unification of South Africa, 1902-1910 (New York: […]
[…] ‘One of them is that his brother is president.’(43) Conclusions? What is one to make of all of this? One could easily become a member of the liberal ‘elite’, so memorably described in the words of one of Dick Cheney’s Vice Presidential predecessors, Spiro Agnew: ‘….the raised-eyebrow cynics, the anti-intellectual intellectuals, the pampered egotists […]
[…] international convention introducing a global ban on all developments and deployments of weapons which might enable any form of manipulation of human beings.’ In the UK, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and the Christian People’s Alliance all support that call for a ban on ‘manipulation weapons’. But the British government, formed by the […]
[…] time and money on funding Britons Publishing with Arnold Leese. Others who followed him remained politically active. Colonel Kerr (as Lord Teviot) organised the merger of the Liberal National Party with the Conservatives in 1947. Major Edmondson was Chairman of the Carlton Club until 1956. Lt. Commander Agnew remained MP for South Worcs until […]
James Carroll Boston: Houghton Mifflin; 2006, $30 h/b Juan Bosch was the president of the Dominican Republic from 1963-65. He tried to implement land reforms and was removed from office by a military coup which was then supported by the deployment of 20,000 US troops. In 1967 he published a little book called Pentagonism: […]
Blowback: the cost and consequences of American Empire Chalmers Johnson London, Little, Brown and Company, 2000, £18.99 (hb) Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism John Cooley London, Pluto Press, London, 2000, £12.99 (pb) It has recently been revealed that the CIA inadvertently helped to create Soviet chemical and biological weapons by convincing the Soviets […]
[…] became GLC representative for Hackney North. A few weeks later he was selected as Labour Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Hampstead defeating Vincent Cable (currently a Liberal Democrat MP) in a contest for this position. Ted Knight became PPC for Hornsey at the same time. They would both have thought it likely that […]
[…] Some details of Hurd’s ‘Arabist’ inclinations in dealings with the Helen Smith enquiry/cover-up are included in a profile of Hurd in Private Eye (21 September 1984). Such liberal internationalists trace their historical roots back to the formation of the Round Table network at the beginning of the century, and if Carroll Quigley’s analysis is […]
