From David Hambling On the topic of the People Zapper (Lobster 41 p. 9), the new ‘Active Denial System’ is probably not the first microwave weapon to be deployed. There have been repeated rumours of cruise missiles with HPM (high-powered microwave) warheads being used in former Yugoslavia to knock out communications centres, though apparently […]
[…] NACRO, The Howard League for Prison Reform Trust useful or otherwise though at times these last may well have been. It is crucial to appreciate which new groups emerged, when, how and in certain cases who was involved and, the extent to which (ie. on which matters they separately as well as jointly […]
[…] of the Conservative Party may discover that upon its heart in the 1960s “Rhodesia” was indelibly graven.(1) With the arrival of Mrs Thatcher in 1975 came “the New Right”, with about as much claim to be called “new” as had the “New Left’ a decade earlier. Although the Tory right has a history with […]
[…] Black Point: Clarity Press and Fernwood Books, 2006, $16.95 In a year in which Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Gaza were accompanied by more stories of New Labour loans and the arrest (twice) of Tony Blair’s fundraiser and Middle East ‘envoy’ Lord Levy, it would have been good to have seen British publications […]
[…] US government is the chief protagonist and the US military-industrial complex the chief beneficiary’. ( p.109) In his introduction Winer writes: ‘Progressive ideology cries out for a new kind of critical analysis and an enhanced quality of historical interpretation’. ‘Progressive ideology’? Yes, the author is apparently an apologist for the Soviet Union. For example […]
[…] the book will be familiar in outline if you have read the extant material on the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), Saunders has dug up mountains of new detail, and vividly conveys the preposterous arrogance of the Ivy League, button-down, white Americans who were trying to regulate the non-communist world in the 1950s. In […]
‘Let me through! I’m an academic conspiracy expert.’ Peter Knight London and New York: Routledge, 2000 p/b £16.99, h/b £60 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 DeLillo’s novel about Lee […]
[…] to recreate the space technology used by the aliens. Working on the alien craft project is a super secret government group code-named MJ12. This is not a new thesis in the world of UFOlogy and Mr Good received much of the extensive media attention he did partly because of the support for his claims […]
NFTB There is a new issue, no 6, of Larry O’Hara’s Notes from the Borderland. It is 68 pages, glossy paper, with essays on ‘journo-cops’, Paul Foot, Shayler and Machon and the Copeland bombing. In the UK this is £3.50 from BM 4769, London WC1N 3XX; a two issue sub is £7.50. Outside the […]
[…] phrases from the sentence where I relate what Rep. Smith told me. I won’t cut the whole sentence, just the last fourteen words. Then I’ll put this new version out on the wire.’ Edwards: ‘Kick doesn’t even suggest that some kinds of change are being made more than others: “Overall, the changes are usually […]
