[…] ‘stacking’ under the guise of free markets clearly cannot be obvious or overt, but will continue nevertheless. Why else would the government feel compelled to publish a new Competition White Paper to combat cartels? And why else would the European Parliament, in defence of the single market, want to hold an inquiry into the […]
Jon Ronson New York: Simon and Schuster,2001 $24.00 London: Picador, 2001, £16 (hb) Picador, 2002, £7.99 (pb) This is the book of the TV series on Channel 4 in 2001. Through a series of encounters Ronson presents various aspects of the current, predominantly American, conspiracy theory culture. A bit like Louis Theroux, Ronson tries […]
Dan E. Moldea W.W. Norton, London and New York 1995 I didn’t notice this when it was first published and came across a remaindered copy. Unlike the JFK murder, this case is absolutely straightforward. The forensic evidence is quite clear and inarguable: Robert Kennedy was shot three times at point-blank range – i.e. a […]
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 […]
Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005, h/b, $33.00 There is 900 pages of this, in the first 250 or so of which the authors demonstrate that there was a Kennedy brothers plan to create an internal coup in Cuba, which was set to go on 1 December 1963. […]
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 […]
[…] this is true or defensible. This is big stuff. James’ book is an unprecedented insider account of the military-commercial-intelligence network at the heart of the British state. Notes This was reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph, 7 January 96; James was profiled in Independent on Sunday, 18 June 1995. James is another disillusioned Tory. There […]
The rise and fall of the Bulgarian Connection Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead (Sheridan Square Publications, New York, 1986) When the Turkish Grey Wolves hold rallies they howl collectively. So, at times, do journalists of the ‘free press’. In 1979 Edward Herman wrote After the Cataclysm with Noam Chomsky in which they shredded […]
[…] had sent a memo to Milner arguing the case for a Jewish national home in Palestine on strategic grounds. (In addressing himself to Milner, Samuel clearly k new who was pulling the strings in British imperial policy at the time). In March 1917, Milners semi-secret Round Table organisation held a moot (or congress) to […]
[…] we both had concerns about John Ware. He had written articles or produced TV documentaries about subjects of which we both had some knowledge which we k new were wrong, but for which he had never had to apologise or make a public correction. In the first section I return to the Colin Wallace […]
