[…] 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 […]
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 […]
Patriots not sneaks After a year of New Labour I feel beholden to write something on this subject, but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping […]
[…] their use….. and to reduce the worldwide incidence of deadly conflict. The organization is working to improve the capabilities of the American intelligence community to respond to new and emerging threats, reducing the need to resort to the use of force, while enhancing the effectiveness of military forces when needed. GlobalSecurity.org also supports new […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
