[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]: […] in Israel, with John Bolton, for example, calling for the US to defund the UNHCR. For the Israel-South Africa connection see Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2010). 5 6 Terris (see note 4) pp. 241, 255. Norman Finkelstein, Gaza: An Inquest into Its […]
[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]: […] January 1925. 8 Philip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, (Harmondsworth, Penguin: 1975) p. 103. See also John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies (1984). extensive military and secret police force to suppress opposition to it. Officially, US national security means the protection of its territory, fundamental ‘freedoms’ and the interests of the US abroad, […]
[…] I now can’t remember how I first came across the LBJ-dunit thesis. Perhaps it was the reference to it in Michael Milan’s The Squad: the US Government’s Secret Alliance with Organized Crime.7 The pseudonymous author of that book I discount James Files’ story. That, as Garrick Alder has shown, is an invention. See . […]
[…] RT.72 Old friends David Black is an old friend of this journal. The first edition of his book on the history and politics of LSD, Acid: the secret history of LSD, was reviewed in Lobster 35. He has a new, much revised edition out, published as an e-book.73 A sense of what is in […]
[PDF file]: […] was a fraud. He revealed nothing that couldn’t have been gathered from existing books and articles. He was teasing his readers, beckoning them with as yet unspoken secret knowledge, and none of that existed. The opening page of Chapter One has this: ‘Accounts of her childhood vary. The primary source I have for the […]
[…] is C. B. Macpherson’s. See . 17 5 18 Oh, really? Our political perspective is Left/Green, but we welcome truth-tellers, whatever their affiliation. Research interests include the secret state (MI5/MI6/Special Branch, now SO15) & their assets, including those in the media. We are resolutely anti-fascist, and to that end investigate the far right and […]
[PDF file]: […] on the IMF events, Donoughue revealed the following. . . .in the middle of this crisis I was privately summoned to the United States Embassy for a secret meeting with a very senior official there who said, ‘You should be aware of something, which is that parts of the Treasury are in very deep […]
