[…] the response of the British left media to my pamphlet, The Clandestine Caucus. I sent review copies to every British left journal I could trace (except the New Statesman; why waste the stamp?) and to date the only one to review it has been the journal of the Socialist Party – and their reviewer […]
Olivier Schmidt Atlanta (USA): Clarity Press, 2005, $14.95, p/b www.bookmasters.com/clarity/currenttitles.htm Here’s a new name to me, the publisher Clarity; and a familiar one, Olivier Schmidt. In the 1980s Schmidt was producing a very good newsletter in Paris, Intelligence and Parapolitics. This got expensive, professionalised and eventually went on-line for subscribers as Intelligence.(18) This […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of the CIA in 1972. He apparently admitted this while visiting Beirut in the autumn of 1980. He also claimed to have worked for the UN in New York and to have been Idi Amin’s advisor there. These ‘revelations’ were made at an intimate little social gathering in the basement restaurant of the Wilner […]
[…] never thought I’d see was, ‘Time to come clean over the army’s role in the Dirty War’, atop a piece by John Ware in the 25 April New Statesman. This is the John Ware who, with David McKittrick, did the big smear job on Colin Wallace in the Independent in September 1987. Then he […]
[…] drugs were loaded and unloaded at Fort Lauderdale in broad daylight without any problems. Morales heard from one of his own informants that Florida law enforcement k new of at least one of his 1985 drug flights but did not act on it.(10) (Morales was ultimately indicted and arrested in 1986, after the Contra-drug […]
[…] and numerous high profile Private Eye battles, nothing seemed simpler to a left-liberal movement in desperate search of something to be angry about at the height of New Labour triumphalism. Quickly, groups like the ICA and a queue of liberal lefties jumped on the dubious bandwagon. But what does LM stand for and where […]
