[…] 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 […]
[…] Dallas, that he met Oswald when Oswald was living there, are of some interest. It is in this context that the testimony to the Warren Commission of New Orleans lawyer Dean Andrews is so interesting. When I skimmed through the Warren Commission’s twenty plus volumes of evidence and testimony twelve years ago Andrew’s contribution […]
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 […]
[…] plot against the Labour and Liberal parties and the Heath wing of the Tories. And it wasn’t just MI5 doing it, either.() It did contain two significant new pieces of information. The first was Wilson’s attempt to steer Penrose and Courtiour towards Northern Ireland and Colin Wallace. Wilson’s tale of a press officer, a […]
[…] phones may raise cancer risk in children, study finds children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain cancer if they use mobile phones, a new study suggests.’ ‘Professor Lennart Hardell of the University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden, told a conference that the risk of a cancer in the cells which support […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006 $75.00 (US), £37.99 (UK), h/b This is an interesting and timely book and it is a great pity it is so expensive. Put out as a paperback and maybe with a less academic-sounding title, this would sell. Little of it is intellectually taxing and […]
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[…] 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. […]
