[…] unable to plan for the post-war phase until December 2002 – just three months before the start of the invasion.’(2) In The Guardian, in extracts from his new book, Jonathan Steele reported: ‘The government’s top foreign policy advisers were as inept as their US counterparts in failing to see that removing Saddam Hussein in […]
[…] (at $100,000 per plane) in the extremely controversial TFX fighter. Some of the people involved in this project come into Oswald’s orbit. On November 1 1963, The New York Times, investigating charges by Fidel Castro, printed a picture of a 174 vessel, The Rex. The NYT learned that the ship had been bought by […]
[…] gives a hint or two. Goodman spent most of his career close to the Labour Party and – here’s the clue – the trade unions. He k new many of the leaders of both; and by the mid 1970s two of the union leaders, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, had been promoted to the […]
[…] was pointed at Libya.(7) The demonisation of Libya, justified or not, was complete. ‘The bullet was not fired from the embasssy.’ We can now turn to the new Channel Four analysis of the key events in St James’s Square. The combined evidence of many distinguished experts, including Professor Bernard Knight, one of the Home […]
[…] evidence of links between such groups as the Rosicrucians and ‘ Scottish Rite’ Freemasonry. (3) Lincoln and co.’s selling of the idea of conspiracy to create a new world monarchy is so unconvincing that you get the impression that they are more interested in the cheap thrills market. Inextricably tied to the bourgeoisie, the […]
[…] from the US-dominated global surveillance system. (I don’t take seriously recent newspapers stories about the UK creating a defensive missile screen and building – or acquiring – new aircraft carriers.) He looks at the post-war Anglo-American relationship, and the initial experience of the Labour Government since it took office last year and shows that […]
[…] essays are everywhere; and now they’re mostly political. As well as The Last Empire there is also Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta ( New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002, $11.95) and Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace which, I read in The Spokesman 77, contains essays previously published in Vanity […]
[…] different approach. All reasonable people would hope so. The results of the last Israeli general election, though, do not indicate that it is a country considering a new approach to the many problems it faces. In the last resort Israel has been so heavily armed over the last 50 years by the US and […]
[…] Chronicle as saying: ‘I have been with him since he became leader and I will be at his side until the end.’ The strong Israel network in New Labour is likely to continue beyond the retirement of Blair and Levy. Gordon Brown has often spoken to his attachment to the Israel cause and regularly […]
[…] In the IPS case, which takes up more than half the book, the Crozier case was unproven, and in my view unlikely. IPS really did irritate the new cold warriors who gathered round the broken down old movie actor in Washington. There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly […]
