[…] 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 […]
[…] a fount of information on the B-sides of pop singles of the 1960s. Well, pop-pickers, our civil liberties are safe in his hands then. Or not. As New Labour prepares to cut back on the already pretty limited freedom of information legislation in this country, Falconer came out with a classic in the New […]
[…] of which is said to have been in existence for 300 years. Article based on a collection Crisis of Economy and Ideology from British Sociological Association. Profile (New Statesman 23 November 1984) of Cransley Onslow MP, detailing some of his background in British intelligence in the 1950s and ’60s. The LaRouche Connection by Dennis […]
[…] the context of the Kincora Boys Home scandal. In 1985 Fred Holroyd was trying to get the media to take an interest. Duncan Campbell, then at the New Statesman, had written a series of pieces about Holroyd’s account of illegal military and intelligence operations in Northern Ireland. Wallace read them in prison and made […]
[…] Oswald purportedly clashed in the summer of 1963.(14) The anniversary of the Miners’ Strike has inspired a slew of articles and reminiscences. One unlikely source is The New Law Journal in which a retired barrister, David Mason, recollects representing striking miners in court (‘…my clients were, without exception, decent men.’) He also recalls that […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] their own independent investigations. Nor even politicos and journos sharing homes.(2) Oborne describes, for example, how when then Daily Express editor Rosie Boycott was looking for a new education correspondent she and the political editor, the late Anthony Bevins, sought ‘the guidance of Stephen Byers, then an ardently Blairite education minister, for advice about […]
Dave Renton Pluto, London, 1999, £9.99 This book has been touted in some areas as a radical, new contribution to the study of fascism; and it is certainly well-packaged and cheap. To start with the good points which, although few, are important: if you want to know who the current academic theorists on […]
[…] alive and to negotiate for his release seems to have been so structured as to deliberately fail: there are substantial grounds for thinking that the state k new where he was throughout his 55 day ordeal, but chose not to look in the right place, or to publicise the fact. Moro was most likely […]
[…] In the early 1950s an intelligence operation was underway that involved two teenage boys: Lee Oswald from Fort Worth and a Russian-speaking boy named ‘Harvey Oswald’ from New York. Beginning in 1952 these boys lived parallel but separate lives, often in the same city. Sounds incredible, eh? Well it is. But Armstrong scrupulously documents […]
