[…] response to a telephone conversation I had which was unknown to anyone but myself and the other person. The Internet attacks In 2002 the story took a new turn. On 12 April a post was made to a number of the larger UK newsgroups which accused me falsely of being a paedophile. The post […]
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia Gore Vidal Forest Row (UK): Clairview, 2004, p/back, £9.95 A new collection from Vidal? Not quite. Nearly half the essays here have been published before in book form; some date from the 1980s, his column in The Nation and previous Republican administrations. On the […]
[…] now can not understand is how these subjects just seem to have disappeared again for the best part of a decade. Injectable microchips? Issue 3 of the New York-based magazine Eye, has an interesting article on injectable microchips. They are being used on pets now; how long before they’re used on humans? And under […]
[…] interests of the City and that handful of UK-based multinationals when it comes down to it, has to continue eating American shit and swearing that it’s ice-cream. Notes The piece of electronic circuitry which was the core of the physical evidence was apparently planted by the CIA. See Lobster 50 p.31. Evidence presented by […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] confidently believed at the time that British covert agencies were implicated in the loyalist campaign and the Brian Nelson case provided concrete evidence for this. Nick Davies’s new book, Ten Thirty Three, explores the Nelson affair and raises issues that must not be allowed to rest. While it is absolutely clear that the loyalist […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] special security squad has been involved in several disputed killings of terrorists. A source of the Sunday News suggested that there might be a link between the new hierarchy and such a squad, which is alleged operates direct to the Home Office. The intelligence masters are widely believed to operate from the old Speaker’s […]
[…] 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 […]
