John Perkins San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004, $25.95, h/b ( £14.50 from Amazon.co.uk in January 2005) This is an interesting book, though it is not quite as interesting as it sounded in the interviews with the author which are on the Net. The key material is Perkins’ account of working as an economist for an […]
[…] Centre for Education in Democratic Socialism in the mid-1970s; and that ‘Jack Hill’ and ‘David Williams’ were two pseudonyms of the same person, an agent for a Labour MP, now dead. But which one? Match me, Sydney! Vicky Woods in the Sunday Telegraph 30 November 1997: ‘I don’t understand why Jonathan Powell finds the […]
[…] the Democrats willing to take before they conclude that attack may be the only form of defence? Notes I haven’t read the party’s history before 1960 and don’t know. A great deal of this critique of the Democrats – fear of the spooks and the media, for example – applied to the pre-Blair Labour Party.
[…] British Fascisti et al, will want to get a copy of its companion piece, ‘British Fascism and the State 1917–27: a re-examination of the documentary evidence’, in Labour History Review, Vol 57 no. 3, Winter 1992. This is a look at the evidence on the links between the ‘radical right’ groups like British Empire […]
[…] global corporate culture and its corrosive effects upon the body politic of America. British corporate culture and its increasing ‘synergy’ with the structures of the state under Labour would benefit from similar scrutiny. Indeed such a study would be particularly timely given Tony Blair’s concerted attempt to dissolve the current democratic safeguards which prevent […]
[…] expose Garrison’s investigation as a fraud.”. Did we know this? I didn’t. Survey of personnel and income of Adam Smith Institute, AIMS, CPS, Economic League etc in Labour Research February 1985. Anyone interested in the details of Oleg Bitov’s statement/fairy story concerning British intelligence’s ‘kidnapping’ of him can see some of them in Current […]
[…] supporters would keep marching straight on. But then all of us down at the bunker were the awkward squad anyway – Committee of 100 fellow-travellers rather than Labour Party stooges as we then saw CND. Spies for Peace gave a lot of us a taste for counter-government surveillance and I spent more weekends than […]
This essay has been written using recently declassified records on Project Pandora released on 19 December 1994 to the author after a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed three years ago. The aim of Project Pandora was to study the microwave frequencies targeted on the US Embassy in Moscow by the Soviets during the 1960s … Read more
[…] the anti-communist activity since the war which reached a peak in the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security […]
[…] The Price of truth: the story of Reuters’ millions by John Lawrenson and Lionel Barber which will no doubt skim over Reuters’ connections to British intelligence. Former Labour Home Secretary, Merlyn Rees, although he says he’s for Freedom of Information, will likewise be closemouthed in Northern Ireland: a personal perspective (Methuen) Out soon from […]
