[…] revealed on 7 December, in the UK and the USA, that Russia ‘targeted hundreds of MPs, civil servants and academics in eight-year hacking campaign’: Spies working for security agency FSB ‘snooped on private emails and conversations in sustained attempt to interfere in British politics’, as the clunky headline in the Daily Mail had it.17 […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Hollow Hegemony Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance David Chandler London: Pluto Books, 20009, £17.99 I shouldn’t be reviewing this book: I am not qualified to do so. What do I know about international relations theory, which is what this book is about? And, in any case, its subject matter is really […]
[PDF file]: […] take over the project. They too had their problems. A freelance producer cracked under political pressure and had to be replaced by the Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5). 5 Dr Matthias Uhl of the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau unveiled in 20116 a chilling document found in the State Archive of the Russian […]
[…] revealed on 7 December, in the UK and the USA, that ‘Russia “targeted hundreds of MPs, civil servants and academics in eight-year hacking campaign”: Spies working for security agency FSB “snooped on private emails and conversations in sustained attempt to interfere in British politics”’ as the long, clunky headline in the Daily Mail on […]
[PDF file]: Unwinnable Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 Theo Farrell The Bodley Head, 2017, £25 (h/b) John Newsinger This is the best account so far of Britain’s fourth Afghan War and it is unlikely to be surpassed any time soon. Farrell has written an unsentimental history, for which students of British counterinsurgency campaigns will be grateful and […]
[PDF file]: […] usually everything continues to work correctly. We accept all comments and wishes regarding the panoramas published by our company, but we will do everything only after the security restrictions imposed on the military aggression of the Russian state are lifted on the territory of Ukraine. Glory to Ukraine!6 The second appendix to this essay […]
[PDF file]: […] Percy Holt were my contacts, plus Tippit a few times. Otherwise I can’t say who ran the safe house.’ In this paragraph he offers the Defence Industrial Security Command (DISC) and MI5 Division 5, who were in a version of the assassination story circulating in the 1970s called The Torbitt Memorandum (which originated in […]
[PDF file]: […] Met’s undercover unit, the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). The one area which is still fuzzy is the relationship between groups such as TCA and the police and security services. There are fragments suggesting that there was such a relationship but the evidence is thin. 1 2 There are hints that there are other companies […]
[PDF file]: […] There is something worth quoting on almost every page. In the other equally entertaining and lucid chapters Taibbi discusses the Tea Party and what it means, social security and the attempts by the Republicans to get their hands on it, oil prices (and commodity speculation in general) and the selling-off of American infrastructure – […]
