[…] regime, this hits the right targets: corporate dominance of politics, stealing the election, 9/11, the hyping of terrorism, the Patriot Act, neo-cons, the religious right the new American Reich which Bush Jnr. has fronted since the Republicans ran their little coup in Florida. All entirely acceptable but rather familiar and mostly unsourced. It […]
[…] in these areas where abuse is most likely to occur. What should be done? It is my belief that civil liberty activists should not merely be opposing new repressive legislation but should be actively campaigning for the extensions of liberties and the creation of real accountability so that abuses and violations of civil liberties […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of confidential briefings by the British spooks, I’m not sure you would be my idea of a ‘non-partisan reporter’, either. Papa! Kevin Koogan e-mailed me about the new Pope, Ratzinger, quoting the New York Times to the effect that Ratzinger had been brought to the Vatican Council at the age of 35 by Cardinal […]
[…] the USA. I suspect we will find that throughout the Commonwealth countries the same thing happened. Little fragments keep cropping up. The latest is the report from New Zealand that their Security and Intelligence Service recruited the former general secretary of the New Zealand Communist Paper, Victor Wilcox in the mid-1980s.(6) Significant if not […]
[…] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62663-2001Dec 18.html (1) There are lots of obvious uses for such a device, some of them positive but most of them ominous. Mobile phones ‘Mobile telephones in new brain tumour alert’ – was the headline to a story by Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, filed on 5 September 2001. Uhlig wrote: […]
[…] Technology, December 7 1987. The alternative explanation, that all over the world groups of nutters are spontaneously making up the same spurious allegations, is no longer credible. New sourcesAnother little group interested in this field is Bioelectromagnetics Special Interest Group of American Mensa. They produce a newsletter, Resonance, edited by Judy Wall at PO […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
