[…] who listened to FBI wiretaps of the Khan network using Turkish intermediaries and American lobbyists and politicians in the network’s continuing pursuit of nuclear technology, has been suppressed in the United States.(7) It also explains the persecution of Atif Amin, a UK customs official who was investigating the Pakistani nuclear trade.(8) This story is […]
Roundtable I get regular e-mail bulletins from an organisation called the roundtable – not the Round Table but somebody? some people? trying to document the US ruling elite by the study of its organisations. Really they should be called Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) – because it is the CFR they mostly write about; its … Read more
Cock-up, conspiracy, or both? Israel and the Clash of Civilisations Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East Jonathan Cook London: Pluto Books, 2008, £14.99, p/b Was the invasion of Iraq a disastrous cock-up by the Americans and British, and by the Pentagon in particular? There certainly is a long line of people … Read more
[…] their classical liberal, individualist ideology is applied rigorously in the field of social and industrial policy — and also in respect of European unity — it is suppressed when it comes to the civil and military authorities which underpin the British nation state. For Western Goals (UK), however, their cherished ‘Western’, ‘European’ or ‘Christian’ […]
Secret Nazi Technology which could have changed the course of WWII Gary Hyland and Anton Gill, Headline Books, 1998, £18.99 Thirty years ago schoolboys built model aeroplanes. The most common and popular were, for the Airfix generation, the main combat types of the last great war – Spitfires, Me109s, Mustangs, Zeros, Lancasters, Flying Fortresses etc … Read more
Tony Geraghty Harper Collins, London 1998, £19.99 Before dawn one Thursday in December 1998 a team of six Ministry of Defence police raided the home of the writer and journalist, Tony Geraghty. After seven hours, they left taking his computer, modem, disks and work in progress, having charged him under Section V of the Official … Read more
From Colin Johnson Re: review of Neck Deep in Lobster 54. I think your reviewer missed the main point. The book intended to demonstrate, perhaps over verbally because much of the material comes from articles previously published on Consortiumnews.com mail out, that over the period of George ‘Woodentop’ Bush’s presidency the republic of America was … Read more
Flat Earth News: An award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media Nick Davies London: Chatto & Windus, 2008, £17.99, For many taking a dissenting view of our national life, The Guardian and The Observer have long been part of our diet – the morning fix that sustains us in our daily … Read more
Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research Robin Ramsay ‘The unexpected and dramatic death of the famous, whether statesmen like John F Kennedy, or media stars like Marilyn Monroe, invariably give rise to conspiracy theories.’ Thus Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew, during his disgraceful hatchet job on Hugh Thomas’ books about Rudolph Hess for BBC2 ‘s Timewatch … Read more
[…] praised by the judge), and given a light sentence; his British Army ‘handler’ was given a gong; the section of the Steven’s report on Nelson et al suppressed; and the whole episode pretty much forgotten by all but the IRA and its supporters(2) until the leak to the Sunday Telegraph of 29 March 1998 […]
