[…] Muslim extremists in Manila had been trained in Afghanistan. A similar group, trained in the same place, is said to have bombed the world trade centre in New York.. The Times of India reported in March: (2) ‘The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in tandem with Pakistan to create the “monster” that is today […]
[…] a bombshell. (Quite what the previous history looked like I cannot imagine: they just upped and left of their own accord?) For his contributions to the ‘ new Israeli history’ and later for refusing to serve in the Israeli army on the West Bank, Morris became a celebrity. I kept bumping into his writing […]
[…] accounts are agreed that Michael Levy then set about raising money – the figure of £7 million is widely quoted – for the personal use of his new ‘friend’, Tony Blair, leader of the Labour Party. The big early contributors to the ‘blind trust’ which funded Blair’s office were: ‘….a group of businessmen involved […]
[…] production of munitions. It even referred to ‘Churchill Matrix’ (sic). The Interdepartmental Committee set up with FO, MoD and DTI representatives to review export license applications and test them against the Howe Guidelines, would in Scott’s view, have refused licenses or the export of machine tools if it had known about the contents of […]
Mark Perry William Morrow and Co, New York, 1992 I’m not even sure if this has actually been published in the U.K.: I’d never heard of it until this copy turned up in my local library with a UK price stuck over the dollar price, suggesting a few were imported. This should have been […]
[…] what global empire-building looks like: buy our seeds or else. (In the British empire the injunctions were different: ‘buy our opium’ and ‘buy our cotton’ or else.) Notes Jeremy Laurence, ‘Inquiry into Dr David Kelly’s death was flawed, say experts’, The Independent 17 September 2004 ‘Kelly death paramedics query verdict’, The Observer, 12 December […]
[…] ‘source within the Crown Prosecution Service’. Now this is impressive: London free-lance goes to Nottingham and finds a source within the CPS willing to break the law for him? (I wrote to the Nottingham CPS about this and have not yet had a satisfactory reply.) Irving reports how he had filed a Freedom of […]
Robert Parry Sheridan Square Press, New York, 1993 ISBN 1-879823-08-X This is an account both of the October Surprise story and of the author’s attempts over two years to stand it up. This works at several levels. The first is an intelligible recounting of the main features of the developing October Surprise allegations. He […]
[…] that existing material has been digested, this isn’t just that synthesis; this is a giant step forward. In almost every chapter there are major revelations among the new information. To take just two examples: the chapter on IRD’s role in the removal of Sukarno of Indonesia will entail a complete revision of extant accounts […]
[…] arrived to late for inclusion in this issue but will be reviewed in Lobster 39. Further information can be had on the publisher’s Website at www.autonomedia.org The latest book from John Newsinger, author of the piece about Orwell and IRD in this issue, is a study of recent British comics: The Dredd Phenomenon: comics […]
