[…] Ford, and was Secretary for Defence under Bush Senior was hailed as a wise choice of Bush Junior’s: here was an elder statesman, who demonstrably k new the ropes and how to pull them. Halliburton had been stumbling along before Cheney’s arrival and he was credited with turning it into one of the […]
[…] Waters of the Congressional Black Caucus was calling for an investigation, and the Senate Intelligence Committee had scheduled hearings. Belatedly, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times all recognized that, this time around, they couldn’t ignore the story. But instead of investigating the CIA, they investigated their fellow journalists at the […]
[…] CIA and DoD psychic research was awaiting publication in Lobster 30, the CIA went public on its interest in so-called Remote Viewing (RV).(1) As a result much new information has been obtained. This piece should be read in conjunction with the piece in Lobster 30. At the time of the announcement of its role […]
[…] Games.’ The major media had yet to use the word ‘cyberspace,’ a term just then created by William Gibson in Neuromancer, his first masterpiece in a strange new genre of ‘cyberpunk’ fiction. It was ten years ago that establishment liberal David Burnham wrote The Rise of the Computer State with Ford, Rockefeller, and Aspen […]
[…] a police state. The evidence for true tyranny in either country is weak. However, since it came to power in 1997, it might be reasonably argued(1) that New Labour has brought the United Kingdom one third of the way towards a ‘tyranny’ if we look closely at what the Blair Government has actually done […]
[…] War’s suspension from Anti-Fascist Action, were never substantiated.(9) In the words of the Anti-Fascist Action Commission of Enquiry, ‘we don’t have any evidence that Class War k new that NF youth participated on any event in which they took part or organised(10), and Class War’s suspension was therefore revoked.(11) The second point of note […]
Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism Edited by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap Melbourne and New York: Ocean Press, 2003, £14.95 The Politics of Anti-Semitism Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair Oakland (US) and Edinburgh: AK Press, 2003, £9.00/$12.95 The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century […]
[…] of Wellington Confidential from us, get in touch.) Though the W/C piece on the Fiji coup was anonymous, an educated guess would be that its author was New Zealand’s leading parapolitical researcher/writer, Owen Wilkes, who turns out immaculately researched material at an astonishing rate. Wilkes has now started his own newsletter, Wellington Pacific Report […]
[…] politics was central to both Blair and Berlusconi, even if both goals were quickly exposed as being, at best, ‘unrealistic’.(2) But the links between Forza Italia and New Labour go much deeper than having common roots, shared vision and reflecting growing trends in cultural politics. Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi were the highest expression […]
The Sewer not the Sewage? David Mills, Berlusconi and New Labour Imagine that Robert Maxwell had become British Prime Minister. A similar situation actually obtains in Italy with the premiership of Silvio Berlusconi. I examine below one strand of Berlusconi’s activities, mainly through his relationship with one of his senior lawyers. Until recently, David […]
