[…] Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli used the crisis to buy the Khedive’s shares in the newly built Suez Canal. In 1876 Egypt was forced to accept a new financial regime, known as ‘Dual Control’. This put control of Egypt’s finances in the hands of British and the French personnel, although the majority were in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] These have been painstakingly plotted and appear to be accurate. The Text section constains the entire Warren Report, Jim Marrs’ Crossfire: the Plot that Killed Kennedy ( New York, Carrroll and Graf, 1989) and The Assassination of JFK: A Complete Book of Facts, an almanac-style compendium of people, places, events and ideas compiled by […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] statecraft, which generates legitimacy and acknowledges that in our globalized world the state has lost its monopoly on the processing and diffusion of information.’ (p. 57) ‘This new imperialism….may threaten, coerce and at times even invade, but it does so with the claim to improve (that is, democratize) states and then leave.’ (p. 59) […]
[…] Simon Matthews, Grattan Healey, David Turner, Jane Affleck, Harlan Girard, Anthony Frewin and Tom Easton for cuttings and other material since the last issue. Two years into New Labour and the loudest sound is the sound of surprise being expressed by people who ought to know better. There were the animal welfare and right-to-roam […]
[…] and distance itself from Republican goals enabled a self-serving rabble-rouser like Ian Paisley to contribute to the biggest example of self-fulfilling prophecy in history. There is new material on the emergence of McKeague’s Shankill Defence Association from Paisley’s Ulster Protestant Volunteers.() Unfortunately, there is nothing on McKeague’s paedophile activities, e.g. at Kincora Boys […]
[…] became, with others, a partner in Edsaco, while moving the administration of Berlusconi’s various offshore companies to Withers, the established law firm in which he became a new partner. As also recorded in this verdict, other Withers partners now began to take part in the administration of Berlusconi’s offshore companies. (2) This was not […]
[…] and detailed examination of current (Griffin) BNP ideology, Copsey tells us ‘the trained eye does not have to look too far to find evidence that Griffin’s “ new” BNP is not that different to the BNP of “old” ‘ (p. 170). He draws attention to two ‘ideal types’ on the far right: ‘revolutionary nationalist’ […]
Susan. L. Carruthers Leicester University Press, London and New York, 1995 £45 hb, £16.99 pb. This is an important study of British psy-war activities, and the politics thereof, since the war. Almost all of this book was new to me, though I haven’t studied anti-British insurgencies. Originally a PhD thesis, happily, in Carruthers case, […]
