Volume 20 of Research in Political Economy, edited by Paul Zarembka, titled ‘Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists,’ (JAI/Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 2002) contains important essays on the current US administration’s foreign policy by Peter Dale Scott and David MacGregor. The abstract to Scott’s essay is : ‘The United States since … Read more
[…] more specific examination of its subjection to the USA. Williams knows this well enough, and everything he says points in this direction. The true meaning of ‘national security’, he demonstrates, has always been the protection of ‘institutions’ (above all, in effect, the defence of capitalist property relations) rather than protection of the population. While […]
[…] of people and someone in, or close to, the plan realised that the perfect conditions were going to be created for a real hit to take place. Security would be lax: the existence of the phoney set-up would ensure that no-one would want to examine the mess: and, most of all, there is Oswald, […]
[…] Plimpton served as editor of The Paris Review, he was an agent of influence for the CIA, according to a former ambassador who served on the National Security Council. That is, he was not an intelligence officer as Matthiessen was, but one of the many journalists who were paid sub rosa to penetrate the […]
[…] Scott, Dallas Conspiracy ch 8 p17) And in one of those coincidences which mark the Kennedy assassination, it seems an employee of Collins Radio, who had a security clearance, was parked in the car park where Oswald allegedly dropped a jacket shortly after the murder of Officer Tippit. (This is in a volume of […]
[…] vigorously fight his conviction. We believe he is a victim of a miscarriage of justice perpetrated by the British MOD, Crown Prosecution Service and Police. The British Security Services continue their underhanded methods as revealed by the current case of ex-MI5 spy, David Shayler, who tried to whistle blow on his secret service bosses.’ […]
The Case Against Israel Michael Neumann Oakland (US): CounterPunch, $15 Edinburgh (UK): AK Press, £10, 2005 The Power of Israel in the United States James Petras Atlanta and 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 … Read more
[…] ‘The Round Table Movement and India 1909-20’ in Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies, November 1971 A.L. Rowse, All Souls and Appeasement (Macmillan, London, 1961) M.G. Fry, Illusions of Security (University of Toronto, 1972) W. B. Nimmocks, ‘Lord Milner’s Kindergarten and the Origins of the Round Table’ in South Atlantic Quarterly, Autumn 1964. D.C.Watt, Personalities and Policies […]
[…] trying to get ‘false and dubious’ intelligence put in the report of the Iraq Survey Group after the invasion had been successful. () Notes At the National Security Archive site, See, for example, Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘We got it wrong on Iraq WMD, intelligence chiefs finally admit’, The Guardian 8 April , 2005 See ‘Iraq’ […]
[…] Telegraph reported that ‘…a friend of the former MI5 agent told the Sunday Telegraph that there was “concrete evidence” that two senior ministers had worked for the security service…..the same source said that Mr Shayler’s girlfriend, Annie Machon, also knew about the ministers, knew of the location of the evidence, and might be prepared […]
