[…] preceded by the publication of the latest account of his political career, Andrew Hosken’s Ken – The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone.(1) Although it contains some new and interesting material (but has no index), it is similar in many ways to Citizen Ken, an account of Livingstone’s life and exploits published in 1984 […]
[…] I spoke about a month ago in Berkeley, concerning Ali Mohamed, Washington’s double agent inside al-Qaeda, and also a chief 9/11 plotter.(1) I want to add important new material tonight. Ali Mohamed, an Egyptian, was a close ally of Osama bin Laden. As he later confessed in court, he also aided the terrorist Ayman […]
[…] was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.’ Incensed by the duplicity of the NED’s activities which now perpetuate the subversive activities of the CIA, a new foundation of progressive American scholars, lawyers and activists have started The International Endowment for Democracy (IED) ‘dedicated to promoting real democracy in the country that needs […]
[…] and labour organisations: the ‘sanctuary movement’, the Native American movement and one industrial dispute, are analysed as case studies. They are preceded by a long essay, “The New State Repression”, by Ken Lawrence, a frequent CAIB contributor and member of CAIB’s Board of Advisors. In his essay, a kind of theoretical framework for the […]
[…] to hold all the strings of power he could lay his hands on… he wanted all decisions to go back to him.’ (3) Further, Webster had no new strategic ideas, and in the early 1980s sought to repeat, in changed circumstances, the strategy that had given the NF apparent success for a time in […]
Organisation, History and Politics In the early years of the Thatcher decade, the radical or ‘ new’ right was generally treated as though it was a united palace guard for libertarian Conservatism. More recently it has become clearer that the radical right in Britain was, at best, an ‘anti wet’ alliance between authoritarian/ nationalist […]
[…] longer version is at < http://www.pertier.com/demos.html > Ostensibly a left-leaning ‘think tank’, Demos’ initial Advisory Board gathered mostly those who wished to extend ‘Thatcherism’ into the ‘ New Labour’ project. The Advisory Board Martin JacquesHis time in the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has been portrayed as one of deception, secret funding, rigged […]
[…] (Lobster 33 et seq) on this side of the pond. To cover the American countdown to war, long-time UK advisory board member Jim Naughtie returned to the New York home of his alma mater, Syracuse, and thence to Washington DC where he spent time away from The Guardian in 1981 on his Lawrence M […]
[…] overall strategy of US foreign policy has always been a matter of contention. In terms of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), the original analyses came from New Left historians (2) who were writing within the overall critique of post-war policy, particularly from the perspective of the interests of political economy.(3) While the New […]
[…] in the UK have tended to assume that journalists should be concerned solely with failures to follow the rules (hypocrisy) or with anomalies and injustices for which new rules should be created. Investigators are almost painfully liberal. The forms of constitutionalism are important to them and this quaint belief in the system working properly, […]
