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); […]
[…] All Public General Acts (plus Data Protection Act 1984) in full text, from 1996 inclusive. Also summaries of a range of earlier Acts. Aim is for all new Acts to be published on the Internet within 10 working days of their publication in printed form. Search engine – will search text of all Acts […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of Andrew Gilligan blamed by the internal BBC inquiry while all his superiors escaped censure throws a little more light on the tightness of the New Labour network. Conducting the investigation was Caroline Thomson, the BBC director of policy, who is married to Roger Liddle, Tony Blair’s adviser on defence. Thomson and […]
[…] contra effort. The details of this insanely complex affair now fill a 600-page volume called Compromised by John Cummings and Terry Reed, published by SPI books ( New York, 1994, $23.95) Briefly: Terry Reed functioned as an army intelligence officer during Vietnam, turning to civilian spookery in the late 70s. In 1982 he met […]
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) […]
23. Book Review. The Round Table The Anglo-American Establishment From Rhodes To Cliveden Carroll Quigley (Books in Focus, New York 1981) This, I think, is the most important book ever written about the British ruling class and its foreign policy. In outline Quigley has rewritten the political and diplomatic history of Britain (and thus […]
[…] most interest on reading the book version. In one section pp.48-49 (which also appeared in the Sunday Times on 4 February) Tomlinson describes how his intake of new SIS recruits were briefed by the then SIS chief McColl. One of the new recruits put the obvious question: ‘ “Sir, why do we have an […]
[…] 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 […]
