[…] decade, Iraq’s rulers apparently believed world opinion would come to the country’s rescue. This dream evaporated following arrival of George W. Bush and the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. While living in Iraq, Al-Ani noted widespread apathy and depression among key Ba’athist leaders. Saddam Hussein himself had long […]
[…] High Court.(2) Resilient people, these MI6 assets in the media! Coughlin’s own contribution to the rubbishing of Saddam Hussein in this period was an extract from his new biography of him in The Sunday Telegraph 13 October 2002. The highlight of this was Coughlin’s account of Saddam Hussein dumping someone in a bath of […]
[…] action that resulted from this refusal is still working its way through the US legal system. Why the refusal? As Michael Phayer makes clear, in his fascinating new book, the Vatican bank still holds the Ustasa gold looted by the Croatian fascists during the Second World War.(1) Ante Pavelic’s Ustasa regime was responsible for […]
The first of three essays in this issue are about New Labour and its origins. I put mine first because of its general, context-setting nature. The subsequent essays, on the Successor Generation and the operations in the British Unions, deepen and thicken the section towards the end of the opening essay which discusses New […]
[…] phones may raise cancer risk in children, study finds children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain cancer if they use mobile phones, a new study suggests.’ ‘Professor Lennart Hardell of the University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden, told a conference that the risk of a cancer in the cells which support […]
[…] Targets unattainable? Lower the targets! ‘Significant changes are being made to national tests for 14 year-olds to make them more accessible as schools strain to reach demanding new government targets.’ (‘”More accessible” English tests for pupils at 14’, The Guardian 8 July 2002) ‘Lessons in algebra, geometry and trigonometry, the bane of generations of […]
[…] of Justice where the names of James Callaghan, Oliver North and Manuel Noriega crop up with such regularity as they did in Bankrupt: The BCCI Fraud. Kochan’s new book is similarly revealing. He opens by throwing light on the way the Russian oligarchs most of them equipped with Israeli passports, he tells us […]
[…] down our boys and girls in uniform by questioning their mission. For most of the rest of the time – not many long periods without wars under New Labour – critics have usually been charged with being anti-American and/or soft on communism or terrorism. The history of the decline and fall of other great […]
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006 $75.00 (US), £37.99 (UK), h/b This is an interesting and timely book and it is a great pity it is so expensive. Put out as a paperback and maybe with a less academic-sounding title, this would sell. Little of it is intellectually taxing and […]
[…] embassy in Helsinki received a message on 5 December, 1988, that ‘within the next few weeks’ there would be an attack on a Pan-Flight from Frankfurt to New York. This was confirmed by the Israeli army who, three days later, found planning papers following a successful assault on a PFLP camp in Lebanon. Another […]
