[…] Of course it wasn’t anything resembling a ‘war’ at all. Even a very Kennedy-phile account such as that in chapter two of Victor Navasky’s Kennedy Justice (Atheneum, New York, 1971) makes it clear that ‘campaign’ or ‘drive’ is certainly a better term than ‘war’ which suggests a scale and commitment which is inappropriate. (As […]
[…] is being anti-semitic. This is considered in a very good article in the US magazine The Nation 2 February 2004, by Brian Klug, ‘The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism’, in which Klug reviews four recent American books which attempt to argue that line. 5 There is a series of reports by Patrick Martin on […]
UK readers should note that remaindered around September was a big collection of essays (500 plus pages) by the American writer Ron Rosenbaum, Travels with Dr Death (Papermack, 1999). This includes essays on JFK’s death and the assassination research community; the death of Mary Meyer; Watergate; the secret society Skull and Bones; and the […]
[…] than $50,000. Unfortunately for Holihan the June 1983 election intervened and Thatcher cut short her US visit following the Williamsburg summit meeting. ANON. * * * The New York Times obtained transcripts of conversations between Charles Z. Wick, Director of the US Information Agency, and James A. Baker, White House Chief of Staff. (International […]
[…] sent from Fred Holroyd on May 13th 1987 Dear sir, It comes as no surprise that Mrs Thatcher over reacted to the media attempting to discover the real facts of the Gibraltar shootings. Her attitude is vulnerable to close scrutiny, especially in the two areas of SAS operational deployment and the ethics of soldiering. […]
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[…] liaison committee on June 18, Tony Blair declared that democracy and freedom are ‘universal values of the human spirit and always will be.’ Even if I k new what ‘the human spirit’ meant, this is manifestly falsified by the slaughter-strewn history of the 20th century. A spook by an other name In the New […]
[…] well known were Raymond Fletcher, and Le Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a KGB asset when really an MI6 agent. New information on Le Cercle (aka the Pinay Circle: see Lobster 17) from Hollingsworth is the role of former MI6 officer Geoffrey Tantum as Le Cercle UK […]
[…] the book has had wonderful reviews. The exceptions are the Guardian, for whom Clive Ponting wrote a very odd, almost evasive review (2 June 89); and the New Statesman and Society (21 July 89) in which Duncan Campbell tried to undermine Wallace and denigrate the book -presumably because it was a story he had […]
[…] out his otherwise over simple conclusions. It is remarkable that a book as good as that written by Bryan Clough should only appear through a minor publisher. Notes There is a theory that Kent had begun working for the Soviets in 1938 in Moscow and – this being the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact […]
