[…] about this legislation is that from then on, direct involvement in illegal acts did not have to be proved for the person (or whole group) to be suppressed. Thus, merely publishing an inflammatory far right or far left magazine would be enough. For an insight into how the same legislation was used to attack […]
[…] this trial, Kennedy’s barrister, Michael Mansfield QC, said there had been a police cover up: ‘every category of police document in the case had, since 1990, been suppressed, gone missing, or been forged’ ‘closed ranks, closed doors, closed files’.(2) . A key police officer in the case, who was on duty at Hammersmith Police […]
Part 1, 1974-83 See also: Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) Introduction This essay does not set out to be a comprehensive history of fascism in this period but rather to … Read more
In this article I amplify and update my account of the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul which appeared in Lobster 37. Since it was written there have been a number of interesting developments – the publication of Trevor Rees-Jones’ book; James Hewitt’s impromptu recreation of the fatal car … Read more
[…] and sloppy thinking. But this isn’t bad, mostly reporting of official material and interviews. It is Marrs’ misfortune to have had this book’s publication in 1995 ‘ suppressed’, as he puts it without explanation. Had it appeared then it would have been very striking, the first item in the literature on the US military’s […]
[…] who listened to FBI wiretaps of the Khan network using Turkish intermediaries and American lobbyists and politicians in the network’s continuing pursuit of nuclear technology, has been suppressed in the United States.(7) It also explains the persecution of Atif Amin, a UK customs official who was investigating the Pakistani nuclear trade.(8) This story is […]
[…] their classical liberal, individualist ideology is applied rigorously in the field of social and industrial policy — and also in respect of European unity — it is suppressed when it comes to the civil and military authorities which underpin the British nation state. For Western Goals (UK), however, their cherished ‘Western’, ‘European’ or ‘Christian’ […]
Roundtable I get regular e-mail bulletins from an organisation called the roundtable – not the Round Table but somebody? some people? – trying to document the US ruling elite by the study of its organisations. Really they should be called Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) – because it is the CFR they mostly write about; … Read more
Cock-up, conspiracy, or both? Israel and the Clash of Civilisations Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East Jonathan Cook London: Pluto Books, 2008, £14.99, p/b Was the invasion of Iraq a disastrous cock-up by the Americans and British, and by the Pentagon in particular? There certainly is a long line of people … Read more
Secret Nazi Technology which could have changed the course of WWII Gary Hyland and Anton Gill, Headline Books, 1998, £18.99 Thirty years ago schoolboys built model aeroplanes. The most common and popular were, for the Airfix generation, the main combat types of the last great war – Spitfires, Me109s, Mustangs, Zeros, Lancasters, Flying Fortresses etc … Read more
