[…] 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); […]
[…] 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 […]
Russ Kick (ed) New York, The Disinformation Company, 2003, 350pp, $24.95 / £17.99 (available in the UK from Counter Productions and Turnaround Distribution) ISBN 0-9713942-4-5 This is the third compilation of essays from Disinformation, and, unlike the first two, nearly all the essays in this anthology have been written specifically for this publication, […]
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 […]
[…] any of this relevant to the book? Well, here he goes again, defending Mil-osevich – whom he has defended before – while analysing his trial and the new court body, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) which was trying him. I didn’t pay particular attention to either the break-up of Yugoslavia […]
[…] evidence falls very far short of claims that the Bilderbergers created the oil price hike. Indeed, the evidence offered by Newton suggests that all this was ‘in the wind’ at the time. Notes You can read Palast’s recent journalism at his new Website www.gregpalast.com http://www.radiopinoyusa.com/matanglawin/ml-09-25-2000.html The Akins in the Bilderberg minutes discussed above – RR
[…] In quite separate proceedings, Kennedy’s original case has been referred to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the body set up to review suspected miscarriages of justice, after new evidence was uncovered that throws fresh light on the case. Framed by the police Kennedy was convicted of manslaughter in 1994, after three trials and an […]
[…] and exported all around the world and one of its implicit messages was that railways should be run as a single unitary authority; but John Major k new better (with his rushed through privatisation) and New Labour, despite pre-election undertakings to re-nationalise the industry, just went belly-up on the proposal. Remember Tony Blair in […]
[…] in advance. Which brings me to Russ Kick’s vast and sprawling collection – 400 large format pages, 65 pieces by 55 contributors. No loon material here: no New World Order, no alien abductions, no faked moon landings. Instead, there are pieces on media control and political scandals and cover-ups and the rewriting of history. […]
