[…] with Margaret Thatcher, and later with John Major. This material is extremely interesting, providing, among other things, an insider’s account of Murdoch’s embrace of Tony Blair and New Labour. In a country with a more robust democratic tradition what Wyatt reveals would be a scandal, in Britain we have become so used to governments […]
[…] and the Soviet Union to reach terms. The German reply to the Soviet approach mentioned by Hitler to the Japanese ambassador was to propose a new border which would include the Baltic States, Belarus and the Ukraine all being retained by Germany or within the German sphere of influence. By November 1942 […]
It was very interesting being reviewed by the major media. While the left press – New Statesman, Tribune, Socialist et al – Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the non-metropolitan and Irish papers like it, we were slagged off by the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the […]
[…] desire to run a joint space programme with the Soviets. Alex Cox sent the following outline of US-USSR space negotiations during JFK’s term. ‘….. In fact, The New York Times reported that JFK raised the prospect of a joint lunar landing with Khrushchev at their 1961 meeting in Vienna (NYT 22 September 1963, p. […]
Drugs, oil and war Peter Dale Scott Oxford (UK) and New York : Rowman and Littlefield Inc; 2003, $22.95, p/b On the left-hand page facing his first page of text Scott gives us two definitions of deep politics, the concept he introduced which succeeded his earlier concept of parapolitics. deep politics: ‘all those […]
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 […]
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 […]
Greg Palast New York: Dutton, 2006, $25.95, h/b Another whizzer from Palast. It’s content is similar in a general sense to his previous one, The Best Democracy That Money Can Buy: the corruption and power of the global corporations; the venality of politicians (and the incompetence and cowardice of the Democrats in particular); […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
