[…] a retired civil servant. Scott Newton teaches history at the University of Wales. Previous Lobsters 9, 10, 13, are £1.25 each (UK); $3.00 (US/Canada); £2.00 (Europe, Australia, New Zealand) 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 21 are £2.25 each (UK); $4.50 (US/Canada); £3.50 (Europe, Australia, New Zealand) 19 is £4.50 (UK); […]
[…] influence of US public diplomacy in the UK, in particular the use of the International Visitor Program as a channel for encouraging dialogue and the introduction of new ideas into the Labour Party during the 1980s.’ And Smith lists all those who took the freebies on offer (for the most part they are the […]
[…] dismiss the impossible you have to live with the improbable. That is the reality of the Hess affair: for all his merits Padfield fails to address it. Notes Hugh Thomas, Hess: a Tale of Two Murders (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988); Frank Kippax, The Butcher’s Bill (London: Harper Collins, 1991) John Costello, Ten Days […]
[…] KGB about Lobster can only have been, at best, about issues 1-6. In other words, this is bullshit, Mr Gordiefsky merely passing on a smear from his new employers in that funny Lego building being erected on the bank of the River Thames in London. On 22 November, three days after this curious telephone […]
The Terrorism Industry Edward Herman and Gerry O’Sullivan, Pantheon Books, New York, 1989, $15.95. Since the revelation of the activities of Forum World Features in the mid 1970s, it has become apparent that Western intelligence services have used ‘research institutes’ and ‘study centres’ with impressive and neutral-sounding titles to put over their world view […]
[…] irradiated by persons unknown, for reasons unknown, at their retirement home in Kent. She is the first UK fatality of which I am aware resulting from the new generation of electro-magnetic weaponry; and it says much about this society, its government and its mass media, that her death will go unexamined. Roger Sandell died […]
[…] were going to have more evidence: advance publicity was appearing for a book by a Texan lawyer, Barr McClellan, Blood Money and Power: How LBJ Killed JFK (New York: Hanover House, 2003). McClellan worked for the law firm which handled Johnson’s affairs and obviously knows quite a lot. But his book is a dud; […]
[…] British state. Robin Ramsay Britain’s Role in Human Nuclear Experiments: what’s been did and what’s been hid Armen Victorian Eileen Welsome’s articles in the Albuquerque Tribune in New Mexico in 1993, described a series of human experiments by the US Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Energy (DOE) and led up to the […]
[…] off the cops and the local Democratic Party. Unaware of the intelligence connections of the laundry, or the money (and votes) given by the Dominicans to the New York Democratic Party, the head of the anti-smuggling unit of the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) in New York leads a multi-agency task force to investigate […]
[…] a treasure trove of bits and pieces on British politics in the post-war era, decades ahead of the crap that then constituted political analysis in this country. I checked the indexes of The Times, Spectator and New Statesman for the 1964-66 period and none of them reviewed this. Information on Mr Kisch would be welcome.
