[…] to carry out his research wherever it may lead him, and condemns the use of intimidation and guilt by association to silence discussion.’. On October 15 the New Statesman and Society published a piece by its deputy editor, Paul Anderson, which surveyed the dispute with Searchlight and took O’Hara’s side. Gerry Gable replied in […]
[…] (Times 14th May 1984). But as one of the hostages later said “Unita had been in the town for some time spying out the land. They k new we were all here.” (Times 16th April 1984) Perimeter security at the mine was carried out following consultations with the shadowy British group, Defence Systems International. […]
[…] pages with the central text bordered with photographs of the people and incidents concerned, newspaper clippings, posters, cartoons etc. With scanners and computers Christie has devised a new kind of illustrated history book. This covers the period from 1967 to 1975 and centres on the Angry Brigade events. Thanks to the publicity surrounding Christie’s […]
[…] that smoking and drinking make the damage worse! See ‘A Preliminary Study to Assess Possible Chromosomal Damage Among Users of Digital Mobile Phones’ at < www.hese-project.org/Dr/Gadhia/Gadhia.htm > Notes 1 < http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/20jun_TMAclouds. htm > 2 At < http://slink.com.com/slink?212215 > There is much more on this at < www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega2002.htm > 3 There is a selection of […]
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs Douglas Valentine London/ New York: Verso, 2004, h/back, £20 This comes garlanded with praise from Jim Hougan and Anthony Summers. The praise is justified: this is, as Hougan says, ‘a ground-breaking work of investigative reporting’; and it is, as Summers […]
[…] in the global drugs trade but this is the first book that actually brings it all together in one place. The authors haven’t exposed much that is new, instead they have taken all the previous stories and strung them together to make a damning indictment of the CIA. All your favourite stories are in […]
[…] the Piper?’ and implied, rather than actually demonstrated, that the CIA was calling the tune. Over a much wider field than Saunders, with chapters on IRD, the New Leader, labor diplomats (American labor attachés), the European Movement and the creation of Bilderberg, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and Encounter/, Wilford questions the conclusion of […]
On the jacket of his new book, reviewed in this issue, Steve Dorril writes there that he ‘is founder-editor of the widely respected journal’ Lobster. I invite you to look on the rear cover of this magazine and see who the editor is. That’s right: it’s not Steve Dorril. I have resisted going into […]
[…] accountable in any real way to the politicians; and, for reasons still unclear to me, this is a situation with which most of our politicians are content. Notes 1 For a secret operation, a huge amount about the FRU has been leaked and published in the last few years, despite the best efforts of […]
[…] being a big-time journalist is that you never have to say you’re sorry. You just write a different story when your informants in the state give you new information and the cheques and the plaudits keep rolling in. (5) Notes 1 The obituary by David McKittrick in The Independent 4 April stated that he […]
