Straw Wars: Full Spectrum Sycophancy Jack Straw’s briefing with a response by Ken Coates Socialist Re newal, new series, number 8, £3.00 ‘Jack Straw’s briefing’ is a document, written by a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official, justifying UK support for the US ‘star wars’ missile defence system. Coates’ title comes from current US […]
[…] victims that the beating and expropriation is going to be good for them! Bilderberg news The Sunday Times of 13 January 2000 ran a piece, ‘Stop the New World Order, they want to get off’, attacking those who oppose the globalisation process. The authors, John Mickle thwait and Adrian Woolridge, ‘work for the Economist‘, […]
[…] at the end of the War. What is really quite astonishing is that Skidelsky’s travesty has remained the standard biography of Mosley until now. Stephen Dorril’s hefty new study, Blackshirt, supersedes it in every way. Indeed, Dorril actually writes of how when he read Skidelsky’s biography back in the 1970s, he had been ‘deeply […]
[…] were trying to educate themselves about the role played by the intelligence and security services in our democracy. In 1985/86 I was corresponding with my equivalents in New Zealand and getting material from them on the attempts being made by the United States to overturn New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy. I had read enough about […]
[…] the reactionary cabal inside his own country. The war against Hitler was conducted partly by military means: but it was also waged with Machiavellian cunning. Churchill k new that Tyler Kent, a coding clerk at the US Embassy in London, had stolen copies of his correspondence with Roosevelt. Had the details of Kent’s treachery […]
[…] is, I take it, our common long-term objective”. In fact, it was meant to be satire, written not edited by Barbara Goodwin. It is thus an interesting new member of a very small category, the geopolitical conspiracy theory satire. (Only Report from Iron Mountain and the various books by Robert Anton Wilson spring to […]
Psi Spies: The true story of America’s psychic warfare programme Jim Marrs Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; New Page Books (newpagebooks.com), 2007, $15.99, p/b I’m not a fan of Marrs. I didn’t think much of his JFK book, Crossfire; and his The Terror Conspiracy (which isn’t included in his CV on the rear cover, for […]
[…] Monroe had ‘secrets’ including: ‘a visit by the President to a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting from outer space. Kilgallen replied that she k new what might be the source of the visit. In the mid-fifties Kilgallen learned of secret effort by US and UK governments to identify the origins of […]
Inside the League Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson (Dodd, Mead and Co., New York 1986) This is the only book I know on the World Anti-Communist League. Most of it is new to me but the few bits I am familiar with look accurate, and it is reasonably well documented. It is really […]
[…] interesting marginalia nonetheless. Notably, former FBI agent Turner tells us: that the book may have resulted from contact between the Garrison inquiry and the KGB. Working for New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, Turner wondered what the Soviets knew about Oswald and sent someone to contact the KGB in Mexico City. (Innocent days, eh? In […]
