[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and they have tended to remain in Eire. But British Intelligence now has wind of a big recruiting campaign in the U.S. backed by pro-I.R.A. organisations in New York. There is no shortage of ex-Vietnam veterans – many of them Catholics of Irish origin – prepared to hire out their services. And the U.S. […]
[…] copy the moves which were made when MI5’s chief target was so-called subversives. It was not just your actual subversives who were monitored, but people who k new or associated with, and might support or be influenced by subversives. Organisations had to be be ‘checked out’ to make sure they didn’t contain subversives or […]
[…] accounts are agreed that Michael Levy then set about raising money – the figure of £7 million is widely quoted – for the personal use of his new ‘friend’, Tony Blair, leader of the Labour Party. The big early contributors to the ‘blind trust’ which funded Blair’s office were: ‘….a group of businessmen involved […]
[…] Muslim extremists in Manila had been trained in Afghanistan. A similar group, trained in the same place, is said to have bombed the world trade centre in New York.. The Times of India reported in March: (7) ‘The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in tandem with Pakistan to create the “monster” that is today […]
[…] what global empire-building looks like: buy our seeds or else. (In the British empire the injunctions were different: ‘buy our opium’ and ‘buy our cotton’ or else.) Notes Jeremy Laurence, ‘Inquiry into Dr David Kelly’s death was flawed, say experts’, The Independent 17 September 2004 ‘Kelly death paramedics query verdict’, The Observer, 12 December […]
[…] to carry out his research wherever it may lead him, and condemns the use of intimidation and guilt by association to silence discussion.’. On October 15 the New Statesman and Society published a piece by its deputy editor, Paul Anderson, which surveyed the dispute with Searchlight and took O’Hara’s side. Gerry Gable replied in […]
