[PDF file]: […] British political system, is that real political power in the UK rests with the Prime Minister. When I became interested in the relationship between the intelligence and security services and the British political system in the late 1970s, it was believed on the Labour left that the intelligence and security services were allpowerful and […]
[PDF file]: […] headline in Lobster only because Howard and I had been invited by the BBC, one afternoon in Leeds in 2011, to hear the former director-general of the Security Service , Eliza Manningham-Buller, giving a Reith lecture on security. When I commented that twenty News of the World journos had already admitted phone hacking but […]
[PDF file]: […] especially during its war in Vietnam. The core concepts upon which what has been called a ‘revolution factory’ are based can be found in Sharp’s book National Security through Civilian-based Defense (Omaha, Nebraska: Association for Transarmament Studies, 1970). Of course to understand Sharp’s exercise in reverse engineering it is helpful to read Douglas Valentine, […]
[PDF file]: […] with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and well-being. From surveillance and the national security state to the ‘war on terror’ and control orders and rendition, Ewing’s solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but also to a broader […]
[…] of this thesis by re-reading Gore Vidal’s ‘Japanese Intentions in the Second World War’ in his Dreaming War (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002). force – British Security Co-ordination – in Washington and worked with it in 1940/41 in one the biggest covert operations ever seen to neutralise Congressional opposition to US entry into […]
[PDF file]: […] doggedly to extradite the autistic IT expert Gary McKinnon to the United States. In 2001, McKinnon had gained access to US military databases, exploiting their surprisingly weak security systems to find information about UFOs.’ McKinnon never disclosed his findings to the public, but the embarrassed US government still indicted him for a potential 70-year […]
[PDF file]: […] policing were reforms designed to protect those non-whites who just might, in the eyes of an omniscient god, really be part of the Elect. (Just as social security is really an insurance policy taken out by the Establishment to cover the risk that it might, accidentally, exploit the Elect among the poor, e.g. deserving […]
[PDF file]: […] Wallace sloppy or malicious? Still in Ireland, Bloom turns to Maurice Oldfield, and mentions the 1987 story in the Sunday Times which said Oldfield had: ‘been a security risk when caught “cottaging” in 1980. It was not exactly true, however, but plausible enough to cause damage.’ What does ‘not exactly true’ mean? Oldfield wasn’t […]
