[…] the book will be familiar in outline if you have read the extant material on the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), Saunders has dug up mountains of new detail, and nothing else so vividly conveys the preposterous arrogance of the Ivy League, button-down, white Americans who were trying to regulate the non-communist world in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Mr Stokes Once the war with Poland was over, though, Ramsay and his friends openly strove to reach a deal with Hitler. Nor were they alone. Griffiths notes the effort put into this by Richard Stokes – Labour MP for Ipswich.(4) The Soviet attack on Finland (November 30th 1939) opened the possibility of converting […]
[…] be found at Russell’s story Roderick Russell, whose experience at the hands of agents working for Grosvenor International was briefly described in Lobster 56, has placed a new full-length account, originally a paper delivered at a conference, on-line (6) Centrally he asks the question: ‘From a victim’s perspective, how do you protect whistle-blowers when […]
[…] odd in itself – and, as Cutler has shown, the news story about KAL007 we all remember was not the first published. This story appeared in The New York Times on the 1st September: “A South Korean airliner with 269 people aboard disappeared this morning near the Soviet island of Sakhalin… according to reports […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Peter Phillips and Project Censored (2003) New York: Seven Stories, £12.99 Project Censored is a centre for research and campaigning related to freedom of information, set up in 1976 at Sonoma State University in California. Every year since 1994 (with a break in 2002), the project has produced a survey of the year’s […]
[…] with howls of execration but not a word in this speech was falsified. But then Ken Livingstone had done his homework, and it shows. It is hardly new material: most of Fred Holroyd’s allegations were made nearly 4 years ago in the New Statesman and on Channel 4’s Diverse Reports. There is a major […]
[…] the back of the increasing awareness of, and anxiety about, the polluted industrial environment, the anti-fluoride case has crawled out of the sandpit and has shaken itself free of the most destructive associations. This terrific, massively documented book does tell that story; but the big story it tells is how fluoride got into the […]
