[…] Party and the IRA. And here is the core of my complaint: it wasn’t just a plot against Wilson; it was a plot against the Labour and Liberal parties and the Heath wing of the Tories. And it wasn’t just MI5 doing it, either.(1) It did contain two significant new pieces of information. The […]
Peter Gill Frank Cass, London, 1993 Academia’s a swine. Writing an essay on International Relations (the ideological version of Foreign Office ‘realism’) for my Politics MA, I managed to smuggle in a few references to actual politics — European Nuclear Nuclear Disarmament, the SNP, and ‘independence within Europe’, that kind of thing. Flushed with success, … Read more
[…] aspects of what has become known as Neo Conservative politics in the United States — the proposal of a new kind of interventionism which has been called liberal interventionism, or in some places neo-imperialism.’ () His principle role has been to support those who have sold the UK into this Eva Braun-like marriage to […]
[…] General Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), 1948-57; General Secretary 1957-64. John Raeburn, past Secretary of London Trades Council. (58) Phillip Fothergill, ex-President of the the Liberal Party. Admiral Lord Cunningham (who as Chief of Staff had in 1945 threatened Attlee with resignation over defence policy.) And a coterie of other retired senior […]
John Ross Common Courage Press Monroe, Maine, 2000, $15.95 (pb) (www.commoncouragepress.com) John Ross is the foremost chronicler, in English, of modern Mexican history. He is particularly knowledgeable about the Zapatista movement and its revolutionary forerunners. In addition to the very good The Annexation of Mexico – from the Aztecs to the IMF, about said country’s … Read more
For some time, the world’s secret services have been making use of loose structures parallel to the official clandestine hierarchies for their more controversial activities. Fred Holroyd’s revelations have shown how the British state employed Loyalist paramilitaries for kidnap and assassination operations in Eire, whilst the Irangate hearings have exposed what is, so far, the … Read more
[…] only has this say about that relationship: ‘Healey shared, with a whole generation of Labour right-wingers from Hugh Gaitskell to Shirley Williams, a deep affinity with democratic liberal America’. (p. 156) This is true but it isn’t the point. In practice that ‘affinity’ led them to deal with, sometimes be funded and sponsored by, […]
[…] his subject and the economic sections of the book are inadequate. After 200 interviews Bower cannot decide if Brown is a labourist disguised as a neo- liberal or a politician who, like Harold Wilson in the famous Private Eye cartoon, faces both ways at once: to his party and the unions he comes […]
[…] with Kenn Thomas for Steamshovel. I deeply resent Chip Berlet, Z Magazine, various books, that run stories that I am a Nazi. The problem is that the liberal press will not runs stories about what I do…. I’m an orthodox Jew. My mother and her whole family died in the Warsaw ghetto….To say I’m […]
The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European [imperialism] … Read more
