[…] think of one. Some of this material was presented in greater detail in Pepper’s first book on the case, Orders to Kill (reviewed in Lobster 32). This new account briefly reruns that and adds much new information and an account of the successful civil trial Pepper brought against one of the conspirators after a […]
Greg Palast New York: Dutton, 2006, $25.95, h/b Another whizzer from Palast. It’s content is similar in a general sense to his previous one, The Best Democracy That Money Can Buy: the corruption and power of the global corporations; the venality of politicians (and the incompetence and cowardice of the Democrats in particular); […]
[…] to a fiasco after Local Government reorganisation. British Telecom requires that relevant numbers be nominated annually; otherwise the lines are put back onto Category 3. Unfortunately the new local authorities were considered to be separate bodies from the old, so Telecom felt unable to disclose which lines were already on TPS (and why). Emergency […]
[…] Kitson was concerned there was a serious danger of revolutionary disturbance in Britain in the foreseeable future. To meet this challenge the army needed to develop a new preemptive strategy. The traditional role of providing support for the civil authorities, ie. putting troops on the streets when the police had lost control, was no […]
[…] more than describe and comment I want to try to shape debates, to move upstream in the process of how ideas bring about change.’ The chosen new arena for her talents was the congenial world of thinktankery Demos, no less, the home of the Third Way dreamed up by Geoff Mulgan (before […]
[…] had seen its factory in Germany seized by the Nazis during the war. Violet resolved the problem and Pinay was so satisfied he recommended him to the new French intelligence organization, SDECE. Violet duly became an SDECE operative, utilizing a global network of contacts to assist that agency in its work.(2) Violet’s early post-war […]
[…] looked less ridiculous doing it.) Parmet, a historian, fails to convey that sense of history. His perspective is hampered somewhat by his role as one of the new defenders of the Warren Commission report on Kennedy’s assassination. It’s almost nostalgic to read Parmet seriously quoting Warren Commission lawyer Bellin’s view that Jack Ruby’s encounter […]
[…] when he brought his brand of clever, witty and vigorous exposure to bear on the Blair government in 1998. For detailing the corruption at the heart of New Labour in his Lobbygate reports in The Observer (see Lobsters 36 and 38), Palast was branded a liar on the front page of the then Blair-backing […]
[…] guerilla military resistance to the Castro-led socialist government. These forces would also mount terrorist military attacks against the economic infra-structure of Cuba, making it difficult for the new revolutionary government to organize and operate the economy. 70.3. With this covert NSC-CIA program underway in early 1960, then Vice President Richard M. Nixon secretly “reached […]
[…] subject I am interested in, this looks very impressive and is thoroughly documented. September 1988 includes (using IFA’s headlines) Jerusalem Christian ’embassy’ aids Contras Israeli Help on New South African Aircraft Pentagon Sleaze Pipeline Sleaze etc etc. It’s your basic parapolitics methodology (read and collate a hell of a lot) applied to Israel’s foreign […]
