[…] invasion of Canada) overseas. Now, Bloom does trace the linkages between activists across the waters – much of it due to exile or transportation – but the gold miners’ struggle in Ballarat in Australia, while very interesting and while some of the participants were former Chartists, was not a struggle for a British republic. […]
[…] throughout his life. Thomas Pakenham The Boer War, (New York, Random House, 1979). This book disclosed for the first time conclusive evidence of Milners collusion with the gold mining corporations during the Boer War to ensure adequate supplies of native labour for the mines. This collusion had long been suspected, but had been systematically […]
[…] a well-regarded Marxist author, trusted associate of Trotsky and key mediator between the Kaiser and the Bolsheviks who arranged, starting in 1915, for the flow of German gold into Russia that funded the propaganda campaign of Lenin’s little band of anti-war Marxists. Some Russian revolutionaries grew to distrust this erratic and ‘Falstaffian’ figure, with […]
[…] payments of £14,000 and £15,000 in 1978.’ In fact, as has been reported in these pages before, Falber’s role as the Soviets’ bagman was first revealed in Peter Wright’s Spycatcher in 1987. Falber’s role had been known by MI5 from the outset. MI5 for whatever reason chose to let the ‘Moscow gold’ continue.
[…] in recommending to Attlee that he make a statement in parliament, the document reveals that MI5 were prepared to allow Attlee to mislead the country.’ () Moscow gold According to a recent piece in The Spectator, ‘…any mention of the word “oligarch” the average Russian reaching for a gun. That’s because much of the […]
[…] R. Wrone’s The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: A Comprehensive Historical and Legal Bibliography 1963- 1979 (Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1980): a volume worth its weight in gold and one that badly needs updating. Guth and Wrone also detail every relevant article in The New York Times relating to the Garrison inquiry. For more […]
[PDF file]: […] clear to me – of the programme contained in the ‘British Road to Socialism’ had been written by the Soviet Politburo and approved by Stalin himself.281 Moscow gold? There was ‘Moscow gold’ – bags of used notes, as well as the subsidy by virtue of the Soviet Union’s bulk order of copies of the […]
[PDF file]: […] which it declared a crisis as being imminent. It confirmed that the fault lay in government spending being too high; and, because Sterling was pegged to the Gold Standard, if deposits of gold held by the Bank of England were withdrawn from the UK either due to a ‘lack of confidence in Sterling’ or […]
[PDF file]: […] in Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, as well as being the creative force behind the light shows used by the Grateful Dead. The Committee had devised a film, Gold – a western type farce about some hippies who discover a gold mine and their subsequent tribulations with authority – but had run out of money […]
[PDF file]: […] money delusions Bartholomew Steer Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The inside story of the Treasury since 1976 Aeron Davis Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022, £16.99 (p/b) War and Gold: a five hundred year history of Empires, Adventures and Debt Kwasi Kwarteng London: Bloomsbury, 2015 £9.99 (p/b) The Capital Order: How Economists invented Austerity and paved […]
