[…] to authority: an experimental view (London: Tavistock Publications, 1974) Alfred W. McCoy, A question of torture: CIA interrogation, from the cold war to the war on terror (New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2006) p. 47. See also David H. Price, ‘Buying a piece of anthropology. Part 1: Human ecology and unwitting anthropological research for […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Duff pages 237 and 240. The latter section begins: ‘A number of young people from peace movements and CNDs met that summer in a Quaker camp in New York in the United States called Camp Sunnybrook…..’ Picture on the left shows Tim Hepple in the left-hand corner, with the shades and is from the […]
[…] Intellectuals and the Congress for Cultural Freedom’ Jessica Gienow-Hecht: ‘(High) Culture and US Cultural Policy towards West Germany’ David Monod: ‘Porgy and Bess as Cold War Propaganda’ Hugo Frey: ‘Hitchcock, the Cold War, and Film Reception in France’ Notes 1 The author’s essay on the Congress for Cultural Freedom appeared in Lobster 36 and 38.
[…] type in Bernardo De Torres you find it does not appear. In fact, further research shows that my biography is not in the Google index. You can test this out by typing in a passage from this page in the Google search-box. The page is just not in there. My whole website is indexed […]
Brian Brivati Richard Cohen, London, £25 At the height of Labour’s early 1980s challenge to the siting of a new generation of nuclear weapons in Britain, a rising trade union official was invited to the west London home of a former US labour attaché. On the recommendation of a colleague who was active […]
[…] troops were trained in Malaysia (Kotce Timpyt) Individual SAS members were transferred – through the British Military Attache in Saigon, Colonel John Waddy – to Australian and New Zealand SAS units, as an auxiliary force for the US expedition there. (The Kitson Experiment, Faligot) One such soldier would seem to be Capt. Robin Letts […]
[…] ordinariness, therefore, from 1979 onwards HM’s subjects have been consoled with the iron sacraments of neo-liberalism, Margaret Thatcher, the Falklands War, fake Americanisation, and then more recently New Labour’s successor to British Socialism, the Third Way – and a subsequent “resignation” of half the electorate. All this and the Dome as well. ‘ (p. […]
[…] a dollar-laden future as a World Statesman, writing something has proved to be irresistible. In Lobster 33 and subsequent issues, Lobster’s writers gave a view of the New Labour thing as it began. We got much of it right; but what we didn’t foresee, and what now strikes me most powerfully, is what a […]
[…] event of the post-war US empire. ‘The Octopus’ is a decent metaphor but on the evidence presented here – and the authors have had access to Casolaro’s notes and his manuscript – Casolaro’s evidence for this central control group was thin; and for the role of Angleton and the Albanian connection non-existent. To even […]
