[PDF file]: […] Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State Glenn Greenwald London: Hamish Hamilton, 2014 Since becoming the conduit for the trove of classified documents from former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, Greenwald’s public profile has increased immeasurably.1 In 2013 he was joint winner of the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting […]
[PDF file]: […] establishment is Fort Bliss. The word 2 Blake Morrison, reviewing Lewis’s biography in The Guardian, mentions that he had been told the same thing by a retired security officer. See . bliss appears on page twenty-nine of Burgess’s novel no less than six times.’ Lewis’s reaction to this information is expressed in his description […]
[PDF file]: […] of which have appeared in English. But in the end he doesn’t tell us who shot Sweden’s Prime Minister in 1986 as he left a cinema, without security: no-one knows. He offers us his best guess: that it was the result of a huge arms contract between the Swedish firm Bofors and the Indian […]
Contents America’s Cold War The politics of in security Campbell Craig and Frederick Logevall Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass. and London, 2009 Robin Ramsay In this two history professors, one British (Craig, Aberystwyth), the other American (Logevall, Cornell) examine the American end of the Cold War and conclude that it was almost but not […]
[PDF file]: […] spokesman. But, he writes: The shadow of New Labourism continued to linger on in the Miliband years. It manifested itself through cruelty towards people reliant on social security, anti-trade unionist positions, and militarism. None of these Blairite tendencies was cured under Miliband. The failure to move on from New Labour would prove to be […]
[…] is the substantial political underpinning to the government’s assault on the NUM. For the previous 20 years or so a lobby of former and serving intelligence and security personnel had been asserting that there was a substantial Soviet threat to the UK in the form of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Laughable […]
[PDF file]: […] Units, however, were a much larger scale operation than either Section D or Section VII. Any such large-scale effort within the UK border by one of the security agencies would have more naturally been the responsibility of MI5, but they were already stretched to full capacity in attempting to monitor both German and Communist […]
[PDF file]: […] so tragic, and as I read and reread the The Mitrokhin Inquiry Report I was struck by one of the key items contained in the Intelligence and Security Committee’s central questionnaire, which was never answered. It was to be found in point three out of a total of five principal issues to be addressed: […]
[PDF file]: […] China, the last classical enemies were gone – but the war was not over. Carter’s ludicrous attempts to blame the Soviet Union for the war his national security advisor Brzezinski instigated and covertly funded in Afghanistan were largely a deadly distraction with no initial impact on the new ‘enemy’. Reagan’s attempts to portray Nicaragua […]
