[…] it! Peter Jordan Peter Jordan first achieved local fame when he spread tin-tacks on the pitch of the Bristol rugby ground at half-time on the afternoon of New Year’s eve 1969. The West of England regional team were playing the touring South Africans and this was the culmination of a campaign against the tour […]
Who Really Runs the World? The war between globalization and democracy Thom Burnett and Alex Games New York: The Disinformation Company, 2007, p/b, $13.95 Who’s Watching You? The chilling truth about the state, surveillance and personal freedom Mick Farren and John Gibb New York: The Disinformation Company, 2007, p/b, $13.95 Two more from […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] are deemed by many as not comparable, even ‘poles apart’. This book challenges such conventional historical wisdom by taking the existing historical record and rewriting it. No new bombshell discoveries are presented. Instead, the book aims at freeing history from the ‘distorting prism that refracts the present’. The real strength of this book lies […]
[…] KGB about Lobster can only have been, at best, about issues 1-6. In other words, this is bullshit, Mr Gordiefsky merely passing on a smear from his new employers in that funny Lego building being erected on the bank of the River Thames in London. On 22 November, three days after this curious telephone […]
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America’s intelligence agencies James Bamford New York: Doubleday, 2004, h/back $26.95 Ghost Wars: The Secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll New York: Penguin, 2004, h/back $29.95 These books cover some […]
[…] of the Kennedy years David Talbot London: Simon and Schuster, 2007, h/b, £20 Another Kennedy book? Yes, but a good one. Talbot may not have anything new of substance to tell us about the assassination per se but has much new material about events before and after it. Talbot’s JFK is a complex […]
[…] in September 1983. Here it is, unchanged, apart from some minor fiddling with the punctuation. 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Royal Institute of International Affairs – Chatham House in London. He does not mention his participation in the Bilderberg Group in Toronto in 1996.(9) President of the new European Union Commission, Romano Prodi, was the subject of a long piece in the anti-EU Daily Telegraph of the 12 June this year which tells us […]
