[…] were connected to the drugs/guns traffic in the region. Also averting their eyes, she tells us, were the liberal media in the US, especially (of course) the New York Times. Herman and Brodhead, two critics of Ms Sterlingās earlier, Readersā Digest version of the āBulgarian Connectionā, are just as critical of the same media […]
āLet me through! Iām an academic conspiracy expert.ā Peter Knight London and New York: Routledge, 2000 p/b Ā£16.99, h/b Ā£60 Ā Page one of this book or, rather more accurately, page ix, the first page of text, saw my heart sinking. There, above the preface, was a quote from Don DeLilloās novel about Lee […]
[…] the CIA and the Russian intelligence service to talk to him, as well as SIS and MI5, and the result is a kind of survey of the new world disorder. Iām not very interested in, or knowledgeable about, the current state of the CIA or the Russian service, and skipped through most of that. […]
NFTB There is a new issue, no 6, of Larry OāHaraās Notes from the Borderland. It is 68 pages, glossy paper, with essays on ājourno-copsā, Paul Foot, Shayler and Machon and the Copeland bombing. In the UK this is Ā£3.50 from BM 4769, London WC1N 3XX; a two issue sub is Ā£7.50. Outside the […]
[…] phrases from the sentence where I relate what Rep. Smith told me. I wonāt cut the whole sentence, just the last fourteen words. Then Iāll put this new version out on the wire.ā Edwards: āKick doesnāt even suggest that some kinds of change are being made more than others: āOverall, the changes are usually […]
[…] Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and Videography, 1963-1992 (ISBN 0-313-28982-4). The book is divided into 12 chapters covering such subjects as Oswald in New Orleans, Dealey Plaza (some 40 entries, no less), Dallas post-assassination, TV programs and compilations, documentaries, videos, theatrical motion pictures, and even lost, unconfirmed and spurious titles. […]
[…] as the Czechs had peeled away, two Spitfires from the crack 602 City of Glasgow Squadron were scrambled from their base in Scotland. āPedroā Hanbury and the New Zealand ace, āAlā Deere, were vectored in to shoot down the German intruder. In his autobiography, Deere said the pair of 602 Spitfires got close to […]
Peter Oborne and Simon Walters London: Aurum Press, 2004 p/back, Ā£8.99 Ā If you were going to read only one book on New Labour, this account of the New Labour people and their relationships with the media, from the days of opposition through to Campbellās resignation in the wake of the death of Dr […]
Dick Russell Carroll and Graf, New York, 1992 This is one of the most interesting JFK assassination books to have emerged from the movie and 30th anniversary tie-in crop. Given the vast amount of attention paid to Gerald Posnerās āOswald did it after all!ā apologia, Case Closed, it is unfortunate that Russellās book still […]
[…] the problem.ā According to one former CIA operative, we are āan Islamist swampā. So much so that 40 per cent of āCIA activity designed to prevent a new terrorist spectacular on American soil is now directed at targets in the UK.ā(11) Top of the form One of the by-products of the āWar on Terrorā […]
