[PDF file]: […] work yet to do.’ Anthony Frewin 20 Remember this? ‘Tony Blair personally ordered an exemption for motor racing from a tobacco sponsorship ban after Labour received a secret £1m donation from Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One boss’ (The Times, 12 October 2008). That million was or would be ultimately forthcoming from Big Tobacco. Just […]
[PDF file]: […] corporate policing activities. OSS was essentially the kernel of what the CIA would become – what Philip Agee called ‘capitalism’s invisible army’ (one ought to add its ‘secret police’, too).1 6 The creation of the CIA and the origins of the ‘Cold War’ are inseparable. The CIA was founded in 1947, the same year […]
[PDF file]: […] Powell, Downing Street chief of staff. Nor Alastair Campbell, Director of Communications. More importantly still, I have not discovered from either the Joint Intelligence Committee or the Secret Intelligence Service that the prime minister was misrepresenting their intelligence. This failure to challenge Mr Blair means that the Secret Intelligence Service in effect colluded with […]
[PDF file]: […] and the global partnership of McKinsey and Co, I do so with a clear-eyed understanding of it all. A little further on he comments: The dirty little secret of Davos is that it’s one enormous business opportunity. Financial and industrial titans come not primarily to plot social and political control but to make money, […]
[PDF file]: […] to a famous investigation into the origins of the 1991 North Wales care homes scandal conducted by the late Richard Webster and reported in his book The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt.14 Smith and Burnett follow Webster’s argument that people mounting a moral crusade against child abuse can […]
[PDF file]: […] commentators, that in the case of the United States, the ideological duopoly is little more than a carefully constructed façade designed to distract the masses from the secret unity of its ruling elites. Furthermore, this governing stratum – known variously as the ‘Power Elite’,1 ‘The Eastern Establishment’,2 ‘Insiders’3 the ‘Shadow Government’,4 ‘National Security 1 […]
[PDF file]: […] Indeed, Johnson has actually blamed his father for his own conduct, on one occasion, telling his second wife, Marina, after she had thrown him out, ‘his innermost secret’. He had seen his father ‘hit Charlotte. So much about Boris was explained by that experience’. (p. 92) Both she and Bower seem to have fallen […]
[PDF file]: […] down salaries in response to public outrage after the world’s governments spent billions rescuing the system. Chief executives from the world’s banks discussed the plans at a secret dinner held at Claridge’s, the London hotel, last October, at which several leading British bankers are said to have suggested that the sector should take greater […]
