[…] praised by the judge), and given a light sentence; his British Army ‘handler’ was given a gong; the section of the Steven’s report on Nelson et al suppressed; and the whole episode pretty much forgotten by all but the IRA and its supporters(2) until the leak to the Sunday Telegraph of 29 March 1998 […]
One of the benefits of living in the West is the freedom to criticize our politicians. The fact that the electoral system rarely reflects considered criticism is not the point. We have always known that it is centred on political parties that are run by small groups more intent on newspaper opinion, and on that … Read more
AMBUSH: the war between the SAS and the IRA James Adams, Robin Morgan and Anthony Bambridge (Pan, London 1988, 200 pp £3.99) Following the Gibralter shootings, the Sunday Times ‘Insight’ team lead the campaign to discredit eyewitness accounts of how the SAS killed the IRA unit.(1) Ambush is their account of the shootings and SAS … Read more
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing Stephen Marshall (Guerilla News Network, $13.22. Available from <> and <amazon.co.uk>) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein, (London: Allen Lane, £25.00) ‘When new (forms of capitalism) emerged in the past …they sparked a flood of analysis and debate about how such seismic shifts in the production … Read more
[…] with Alparslan Turkes’ fascistoid Milliyetci Hareket Partisi (MHP Nationalist Action for Movement Party), for which see Deger, Roth and Taylan pp.90-4, 116-20,130-7. Ironically, the MHP was later suppressed by the military regime it had helped to seize power in 1980, apparently because Turkes was becoming too power-hungry. It is significant that none of the […]
[…] understandable. The book has no footnotes. The bibliography includes something called the German Research Project – available from a P.O. Box in California – and allegedly a schedule of ‘secret and suppressed’ technology. This book is nonsense, and dangerous nonsense at that; and I question the judgement of Counter Productions in making it available. Avoid.
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more
[…] the truth is we don’t know enough yet to say anything positive and the minutes of the Cabinet meeting at which MI5 presented their evidence are still suppressed. Charles Higham, as always, is certain: Pressed by the Labour Party leader, Clement Attlee, he (Churchill) instantly acted to destroy the entire group that was planning […]
[…] is to stop them converting it all to disk? They could get their entire subversive collection onto a few CD-roms. Second, the reasons MI5 want the files suppressed has less to do with embarrassing past informers, than revealing the scale of its penetration of British politics. Colin Wallace’s MI5 briefing notes showed that MI5 […]
On 8 March 1985 an attempt was made to assassinate one of the founders of Hizbullah, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, by car bomb in Beirut. The attack failed in its objective, but there was some ‘collateral damage’. While Fadlallah was untouched, some eighty bystanders, men, women and children, were killed and over two hundred injured. … Read more
