[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
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[…] threats after 9/11’. Or take Stephen Holmes, a regular contributor to The London Review of Books and research director at the Center for Law and Security at New York University School of Law, who wrote: ‘….we can safely say that the following jumble of motives, seizing different actors at different times, contributed to the […]
Rob Evans House of Stratus, London, 2000 This is a long (over 400 pages with notes and appendices), minutely detailed account of experiments at Porton Down from the First World War onwards. The story is pretty much what you would expect: thousands of British squaddies were persuaded to volunteer for the experiments, most apparently […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] enjoyed this more than anything else I have read for years. It is also an important book. There have been critics of the free market and the New World Order before – but no-one has treated these subjects with such elegant contempt. All the nauseating bullshit of the past twenty years is trashed in […]
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[…] In the IPS case, which takes up more than half the book, the Crozier case was unproven, and in my view unlikely. IPS really did irritate the new cold warriors who gathered round the broken down old movie actor in Washington. There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly […]
