Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

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[PDF file]: Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

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[PDF file]: […] the most egregious case of U.S. war crimes by proxy’ and example of lawlessness in the post-war era. A veritable microcosm of the U.S. behemoth, Israel, a secret nuclear power, and funded (officially) an average of $3 billion annually by the U.S., has committed serial violations of the Geneva Conventions, the U.N. Charter, multiple […]

Well, how did we get here?

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[PDF file]: […] to one of selective intervention; and also to a major reflationary policy….’2 0 The ‘brooding in the car’ story was a fiction. Armstrong had been chairing a secret Whitehall economics committee, created by Heath, that had been in existence for a year.21 The committee has been set up to devise a way of creating […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

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[PDF file]: […] into the post Cold War world which have shaped the visible, formal American politics and shows continuity of methods and some personnel. But this isn’t some ‘ secret team’, to use Fletcher Prouty’s term. (And a sense that the concept of parapolitics encouraged ‘secret team’ notions is one of the reasons Scott abandoned it.) […]

View from the bridge

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[…] . . In one of his (now deleted) YouTube pieces Professor Jeffrey Sachs mentioned a book about US covert action: Lindsey A. O’Rourke, Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018). (Be warned: there are apparently free PDF copies of this available on-line, but my computer’s system flagged the sites […]

View from the bridge

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[…] . . In one of his (now deleted) YouTube pieces Professor Jeffrey Sachs mentioned a book about US covert action: Lindsey A. O’Rourke, Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018). (Be warned: there are apparently free PDF copies of this available on-line, but my computer’s system flagged the sites […]

Using the UK FOIA, part III

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[PDF file]: […] of their deliberations: it has been denied. I know every minuted word from those meetings but, according to the Tribunal, who said those words is actually more secret. In two previous editions of Lobster I have charted the course of my appeal under the FOIA.1 I included my original Lobster article on the WUCC […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] was to hit the car and JFK was struck by accident. 9 This was the bullet recently revealed to have been found in the limousine by a Secret Service agent. See, for example, . 10 It doesn’t really matter whether or not Oswald actually owned a Mannlicher-Carcano, or if the picture of him holding […]

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