Mark Felt is ‘Deep Throat’. Bob Woodward says so, and his word is law in this particular arena. No matter that Woodward had a dozen sources, some of whom may have been more important than Throat himself. The point is that ‘Throat’ is anyone Woodward says he is, and he says he is Felt. In … Read more
[…] Member, Congressman Philip Crane, is also one of the original four members of the Advisory Board of IFF’s journal. (The latest issue of that journal shows that Senator Jesse Helms has been added to its Advisory Board. This helps locate the IFF, for Helms is a flat-out ‘know nothing’ racist. See the rather cautious […]
Jane Affleck Here are a few more websites, focusing chiefly on the issue of electronic privacy which is currently being debated both in the U.S. and Europe. Thanks to those who have sent comments, and thanks for contributions to: Terry Hanstock, Ian Tresman and Tony Hollick. Comments and contributions are welcome: I can be contacted … Read more
[…] further fringe of the U.S. right, liberally dosed with now rather archaic communist conspiracy stuff. In the pursuit of which, in an open letter to a U.S. senator, Coleman produces one of the great non-sequitors. ‘If you do not believe that Roosevelt was a Communist, view the footage by C.N.N. covering the dedication of […]
The apparent re-election of George W. Bush as US President seems to have its roots in a mechanical failure. On 12 March 2004, a car went out of control on a busy highway and propelled itself in front of an 18-wheeler. The driver an African-American clergyman called Athan Gibbs was killed outright. Gibbs, … Read more
[…] blood will be found to be thicker than water”), the Earl of Rosebery’s lecture on the English-speaking Brotherhood, and these voices were echoed across the Atlantic by Senator Beveridge (“God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing … No! he has made us master organisers of […]
[…] is trying to bring a civil law suit against Bush, Cheney et al for organising 9-11. Hilton is some time chief of staff for Republican presidential candidate Senator Bob Dole. Kevin Ryan, the head of the Environmental Health Laboratory Div. of Underwriter´s Laboratory, wrote a letter pointing out that the steel in the Twin […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. This essay leads to the same conclusions as Michael Klare’s study for the Washington-based Institute of Policy Studies: if we are to protect our freedoms and liberties from the inflow of barbarism [parafascism] from dictators abroad, we must act now to halt the export of repression to such regimes. … Read more
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. Economic Recession and Arms Sales Increases In this way weakness at the periphery of the U.S. transnational system will generate forces for instability and reactionary oppression at its centre. There is also the immediate risk that this long-run political disequilibrium will be reinforced by long-run economic disequilibrium as well. … Read more
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. There is, of course, much to commend in the steps which Congress has taken to restrain the CIA and all forms of U.S. intervention in the internal affairs of other states. But the effect of these measures will be frustrated as long as new agencies – such as the … Read more
