[…] still investigating its activities well into the 1970s, believing that portions of it had survived various Gestapo crack-downs and had gone on to become embedded in the new pro-NATO West German state.) Kilzer reasons that because the intelligence provided by the Orchestra to the Soviets was so good, so detailed and so close to […]
[…] young son watching the ex-president on television. After a panel’s worth of contemplation, the boy asks, ‘He’s lying now, isn’t he?’ The parents beam with pride. ‘A new generation recoils!’ In this study of Nixon’s image-making, and America’s perception of it, David Greenberg recoils not at all. This could be seen as academic neutrality, […]
Paul Krugman London: Allen Lane, 2003, h/b, £18.99 I only caught up with this at Christmas. Krugman writes a column for the New York Times and this is a collection of those columns. Krugman is an academic economist at Princeton and saw pretty early that Enron and others similar were just frauds, and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] opposite problem.)(5) An electronic voting system gave Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus. Which is bad enough until you learn that only 638 people voted. In New York, voting machine problems surfaced in a contested state Senate race. Elections officials disclosed in court that seals were missing or broken on 22 impounded voting […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
