[…] at the end of the War. What is really quite astonishing is that Skidelsky’s travesty has remained the standard biography of Mosley until now. Stephen Dorril’s hefty new study, Blackshirt, supersedes it in every way. Indeed, Dorril actually writes of how when he read Skidelsky’s biography back in the 1970s, he had been ‘deeply […]
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 […]
[…] were trying to educate themselves about the role played by the intelligence and security services in our democracy. In 1985/86 I was corresponding with my equivalents in New Zealand and getting material from them on the attempts being made by the United States to overturn New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy. I had read enough about […]
[…] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62663-2001Dec 18.html (1) There are lots of obvious uses for such a device, some of them positive but most of them ominous. Mobile phones ‘Mobile telephones in new brain tumour alert’ – was the headline to a story by Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, filed on 5 September 2001. Uhlig wrote: […]
Psi Spies: The true story of America’s psychic warfare programme Jim Marrs Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; New Page Books (newpagebooks.com), 2007, $15.99, p/b I’m not a fan of Marrs. I didn’t think much of his JFK book, Crossfire; and his The Terror Conspiracy (which isn’t included in his CV on the rear cover, for […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] in his introduction, the Labour Party and its politicians have been the subject of much greater and more critical exposure – as one would expect of anything new. As a consequence, it has appeared as if Labour was more often the party beset by turmoil and internecine warfare. Three major Conservative themes emerge from […]
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 […]
[…] embassy in Helsinki received a message on 5 December, 1988, that ‘within the next few weeks’ there would be an attack on a Pan-Flight from Frankfurt to New York. This was confirmed by the Israeli army who, three days later, found planning papers following a successful assault on a PFLP camp in Lebanon. Another […]
[…] of Justice where the names of James Callaghan, Oliver North and Manuel Noriega crop up with such regularity as they did in Bankrupt: The BCCI Fraud. Kochan’s new book is similarly revealing. He opens by throwing light on the way the Russian oligarchs most of them equipped with Israeli passports, he tells us […]
