[…] 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 […]
[…] Lobster 19, here are some more fragments of evidence. Journeying Far and Wide; A Political and Diplomatic Memoir Philip M. Kaiser Maxwell MacMillan International/Charles Scribner, Oxford and New York, 1992 This one slipped by me when it was published and I came across it in the library. A pleasant, if unexceptional, memoir by US […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Monroe had ‘secrets’ including: ‘a visit by the President to a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting from outer space. Kilgallen replied that she k new what might be the source of the visit. In the mid-fifties Kilgallen learned of secret effort by US and UK governments to identify the origins of […]
[…] mainly Christian Democrats, who are having the report translated into German. And he had shown a copy to the Spanish Minister and to the Pope. NSIC in New York had bought 500 of the ISC’s initial print order, and another 500 had been bought by the American Bar Association. In effect we were out […]
Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding Andre Deutsch, London, 1999 £17.99 At one level this whole Shayler affair is quite odd. For Shayler is the quintessential, contemporary, football-mad, New Labour-oriented, a-political technocrat – someone who can use the word ‘modern’ without blushing and putting it in scare quotes. (Shayler’s complaints about MI5 can be seen […]
[…] assistance. I cannot recall anywhere that I have been where there is such a degree of helpfulness, general good humour and pleasantness. I am certain that other new Members think the same. I do not know why that should be. Perhaps close proximity to 649 fellow politicians induces this state of good humour, or […]
[…] NL Netherlands, Her Majesty the Queen of the NL Wijffels, Herman H.F. Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Nederland P Balsemao, Francisco Pinto Professor of Communication Science, New University, Lisbon; Chairman, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister P Borges, Antonio Dean, INSEAD P Galvao Teles, Jose M. Lawyer, Member of the Social Party, Member of […]
[…] by the wayside in 1990, unseated by the contradictions of her own ideology, particularly over European integration, and by the idiocies of the poll tax. Yet no new politico-economic strategy appeared and the defenceless British economy continued to receive a buffeting from international capital, bringing to its people increasing insecurity, immiseration and social disintegration. […]
