[PDF file]: […] some of the introduction, this is a talk I gave to the conference on SCADS, state crimes against democracy, in London in October 2011. The rise of New Labour Robin Ramsay I was asked to talk about the rise of New Labour, presumably because in some way it illustrates the notion of a SCAD, […]
[PDF file]: […] the JFK researchers as ‘amateurs’. Iran-Contra is sketched in and she flunks the central issue of the CIA’s role in facilitating the wholesale importation of cocaine. She notes that CIA officers (she calls them ‘agents’, often a sign of someone not familiar with the territory) ‘turned a blind eye’ to the import of cocaine […]
A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency Richard Helms and William Hood ( New York: Random House, 2003) The Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby John Prados Oxford University Press: Cary , 2003 The Man Who Kept the Secrets Thomas Powers (New York: Knopf: 1979) […]
[…] technophile US librarians described in Nicholson Baker’s thoroughly-researched and passionate polemic. This is a world in which the archivist of a historical society orders volumes of the New York Times to be fed into a steam-engine of a vintage sawmill; in which the Deputy librarian of Congress purports to demonstrate the terminal brittleness of […]
[…] 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 […]
The New Pearl Harbour: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 David Ray Griffin Northampton, Mass.: Olive Tree Press/Interlink 2004, $15.00, p/back available at Putting this out in America took some courage. Most of the content of this book is so far off the mainstream radar as to be invisible. A professor […]
[…] advocating the revolutionary use of psychedelics to undo contemporary social conditioning; he also refers to Stark, in 1969, meeting ‘associates of the Black Mask/ Motherfuckers group in New York’ at Frendz (sic). (The New York Motherfuckers’ views on revolutionary violence can be inferred from their statement in praise of Valerie Solanas’ shooting of Andy […]
[…] than the occasional generosity of its readers. Notes on Contributors Peter Dale Scott teaches English at the University of California at Berkeley. He has just finished a new book, Cocaine Politics. Scott Newton teaches history at the University of Wales. He is the co-author of Modernization Frustrated (Unwin Hyman, London 1988) and is currently […]
[…] similar job on Labour. However, Labour Party plc is more than a simple history of party financing, it seeks to show that Labour, or should we say New Labour has become a slave to the private sector, thus turning its back on its roots. All the well-trodden paths are examined Mittal, Ecclestone, Maxwell, […]
[…] the press, just as they may do today, for all I know, they made their fury felt.’ Angleton’s ghost A wonderful piece of disinformation appeared in a New York Times editorial (7 January ’90) speculating on what we might learn from the Soviet Union now that the Cold War is over. Under the heading […]
