[…] At some point Ross and the Advertiser parted company, but I rediscovered him shortly thereafter c/o the Weekly News Update on the Americas (WNU, 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY, 10012, email ). In addition to more than a thousand published pages on Mexican politics in fact and fiction, Ross manages to come up […]
[…] Government to cease their collaboration with the Americans in either facilitating rendition or torture. But involvement in human rights abuses, torture, and detention without trial are not new instruments of the British State. Thousands of people in Africa, Asia and the Far East lost their lives in anti-colonial struggles; while in Northern Ireland there […]
The real story of the Budget is not to be found in the striking figures concerning the government’s borrowing requirement. These figures are symptomatic of a much deeper crisis which is rooted in Britain’s economic history over a 30 year period. The fundamental problem facing the UK is the shrinkage of the manufacturing sector. […]
[…] specialised knowledge of this area all I can do is confine myself to the two books: the WIA updated and revised paperback, 260 pages long with no notes and no index; and the Short book, 350 pages with some notes and an index. On the basis of this evidence there really is little competition. […]
[…] pp. 217-243. The assassination dilemma is addressed in a special issue of the University of Richmond Law Review. With articles bearing titles such as ‘Proposal for a new Executive Order on assassination’ and ‘It’s not really “assassination”: legal and moral implications of intentionally targeting terrorists and aggressor-state regime elites’, it’s not difficult to see […]
House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger New York: Scribner, 2004, h/back, $26.00 I bought this because it was reported in the UK that the book couldn’t be published here due to our ‘stricter’ libel laws. Naturally, I wondered who among the Bushes and the Saudis might consider themselves libelled. The book […]
The Information Research Department Andrew Defty Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2004, £23.99, p/b Thinking about this book, I wondered why people like me have been so interested in IRD for the last 30 years. There are two reasons, I think. The first is that way back in the 1970s, when information about the […]
[…] Britain. From 1963 onwards, after Blunt’s outing by Michael Straight, curiously coinciding with Philby’s by Flora Solomon and Rothschild, some members of the British upper classes k new of Blunt’s role and the subsequent offer of immunity. Though not, until much later, Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister, nor his Law Officers, the Attorney General […]
[…] a junior minister in the Treasury during the Heath years. His account confirms the analysis I offer of this period in chapter 1 of The Rise of New Labour. Obsessed with British entry into the EEC, Heath embarked upon his ‘dash for growth’, and turned the bankers loose. Having worked in the City, Nott […]
[…] supply operation. (3) Perhaps because of this, the Americans are making every effort to dispel suspicions of sabotage. But the Pakistani authorities are in no doubt: the new President Ghulam Ishaq Khan has spoken of the enemy penetrating into the very heart of the nation. The two main candidates for a sabotage operation must […]
