[…] 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 […]
[…] cocaine in Panama between December 11, 1975 and April 1 1976……. Colby told me that profits from the pre-positioned cocaine would be laundered by Al Carone, the New York Mafia and Robert Vesco…..’ Notice Al Carone in the last sentence. He figures elsewhere in the Dowbenko piece, as a ‘CIA operative’ who makes the […]
[…] went through a bad shock with Watergate. But even then, all they were asked to believe was that their president had been a bad person. In this new situation they are asked much more; they are asked to believe that their country has been evil. And nobody wants to believe that.’ The word for […]
[…] the Stern Report on global warming (now safely dumped into the recycling bin and forgotten in Whitehall) that ‘it was the perfect report for the government………..it allowed New Labour to say that it was necessary to make “hard choices” while at the same time validating the failure to make a choice. This was the […]
[…] copy the moves which were made when MI5’s chief target was so-called subversives. It was not just your actual subversives who were monitored, but people who k new or associated with, and might support or be influenced by subversives. Organisations had to be be ‘checked out’ to make sure they didn’t contain subversives or […]
Thomas J. and Kathleen Schaeper Herghahn Books, Oxford and New York, 1998 No price stated Chatty, readable account of American Rhodes Scholars. Although full of interesting anecdotes about individuals, this makes no serious attempt at the second half of the subtitle. Despite listing the large numbers of Rhodies in the Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton […]
[…] 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 […]
William F. Pepper Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995, but distributed in the UK by WWM at £21.00 Tony Frewin mentioned this book in his survey of the JFK and related literature in Lobster 31. It deserves more than that. William Pepper is an American lawyer with an office in London as well as […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] circumscribed Egyptian ‘land grab’ in the same category as the ‘open-ended Anglo-American war against terrorism’. Firstly, Victorian Liberalism permitted more open debate about ‘imperialism’ and ‘terrorism’ than New Labourism has allowed us. Newton would be better deployed recounting how Gladstone’s flexibility about such healthy debate enabled him to resist the financial, annexationist interests Newton […]
