[…] will be getting a spin.’ In the event it was not the Greek coup program but the financial scandal model, previously used in Australia (against Cairns-Whitlam) and New Zealand, which was eventually used. This, anyway, is one interpretation of the collapse of the case against former Greek President Papandreou in January. (See, for example, […]
[…] collective defensive force against Russia; and, given the propensity of institutions to try and reinvent themselves rather than close down as surplus to requirements, there was a new role for NATO in the projection of Western power as a force for stability and peace against global anarchy and latterly, insurgency. Both of these propositions […]
[…] ‘POW sightings’. In one interview he claimed that he had taken Russian roulette games a la film The Deer Hunter. (International Herald Tribune 24 March 1983) A new faction book, J.C. Pollock, MIA Mission (New English Library, 1983) tells the story of these bizarre searches, based on the operations of Sarg. Major Daniel Lee Pitzer, […]
[…] and Private Eye (item 7 below).This Independent smear – which is what it was – included all the standard anti-Wallace material plus one or two of the new lines developed by the M.O.D. during the summer. It included a variant on the Ulster Citizens’ Army smear analysed in Lobster 14. This is quite the […]
[…] is probably best known in this country for his The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983). His latest, The Secret War against the Jews, contains the largest number of new allegations, and alleged revelations about the post-war era, of any book I have read. However, many of these new claims are sourced to ‘interview with old […]
[…] Andersen’s total fee-income was some $2,000,000 compared with $322,000 in 1920. They had expanded on the back of the US post-war boom, initiating in the process a new degree of involvement in a firm’s total business practice as opposed to just finance and accounting. This involved the collection and classification of both general and […]
[…] presented to the Churchill, pro-war, anti-Hitler faction in the British establishment By June 1940 this series of possibly interlinked manoeuvres against the war was aborted by the new Churchill Cabinet. But new attempts were made. One involved Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, who was also looking for a way to peace. He contacted the intellectual […]
Wellington Pacific Review Owen Wilkes has ceased production of Wellington Pacific Review (ISSN 0135-5619), the New Zealand newsletter on events in that part of the Pacific, but it continues under the control of Iain MacDougall. At £10/ US 14 for 10 issues, WPR should be on the list of anyone with even a passing […]
[…] for example, contains pieces on the boom in private prisons; a report on the Environmental Protection Agency’s report on air quality, ‘the fix is in on EPA’s new rules’; a piece on the influence of the Israeli lobby in Congress; and a piece on an influence meddler named Tommy Boggs. The other issues I […]
[…] was involved in creating organised crime in the US. After Meyer Lansky, who was Jewish, had formed his partnership with Lucky Luciano, who was Italian, in 1920’s New York, organised crime became a completely multi-ethnic enterprise. The Mafia soon came to an understanding with the gangs which had originated in other ethnic groups. Everyone, […]
