[…] from two speeches by Judge Joe Brown, one of the judges involved in the civil proceedings successfully brought by William Pepper against Lloyd Jowers and unnamed co-conspirators for the unlawful death of Martin Luther King. A black American, Judge Brown was too sympathetic to the plaintiffs in the case and was removed during the […]
[…] a key figure both in creating Hitler’s anti-semitism and, through the work done by his student Alan Turing at Bletchley Park, in defeating it. More detective work on Wittgenstein’s life in Cambridge during the 1930s now seems essential. Perhaps some answers will emerge, not from Cambridge, but from the new treasure-trove of Russian archives.
[…] going to a lot of trouble to get this nonsense circulated. A free sample should be forthcoming on request from “Friends of the UK” PO Box 76D, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 4BB, UK. In the US from PO Box 597004, Department 608, San Francisco, CA 94164-9004. Coming In From The Cold: British Propaganda and […]
[…] print, and three examples of the kind of micro-textual analysis which the serious JFK assassination researcher does so well. Editor is Jerry Rose, State University College, Fredonia, New York 14063. Intelligence/Parapolitics We should have given a lot more attention to the Paris-based Intelligence/Parapolitics than we have to date. It really is wonderfully interesting, simply, […]
[…] Hope: U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War 2 (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage, 1995) are among the essential texts of the past 20 years. In this new book Blum has produced a kind of handbook on American hypocrisy, comparing what America actually does in the world with its rhetoric of freedom, human rights […]
[…] Vigilant State: the London Metropolitan Special Branch Before the First World War Bernard Porter (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1987) Porter is an academic historian working an interesting new seam, and this is really very good indeed. If anything his account of the SB’s fabrication of an ‘anarchist’ and ‘Irish threat’ in the 1880s and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] one of those named in the anonymous 1972 pamphlet The Monday Club – A Danger to Democracy. To judge by the statement of the aims of the new Campaign for Conservative Victory, with its emphasis on ‘coloured immigration’, Mr Swerling’s views have not changed much since the early 1970s. Mr Swerling took out a […]
Ken Silverstein Verso, London (£19.00) and New York ($25.00), 2000 Ken Silverstein is co-editor of CounterPunch, a very good radical – left radical – newsletter in Washington (http://www. counterpunch.org/). This book is a group of essays centred round a central theme rather than an attempt to encompass the whole area of the relationship between […]
[…] good. Urban’s book is a long catalogue of failures. For all the global surveillance of the National Security Agency and its minor allies in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, British (that is US) intelligence were completely taken by surprise by the collapse of the Soviet empire, unable to penetrate Soviet diplomatic traffic, unable to […]
