[PDF file]: […] complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), set up under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, to hear complaints relating to conduct by the intelligence and security agencies, and complaints about phone-tapping. It is also the only appropriate Tribunal for the purpose of certain proceedings under s7(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998: […]
[PDF file]: […] This well-referenced report tells us that the HJS promotes a strongly pro-Israel agenda; organises anti-Islam activities, particularly against British Muslim students, and advocates a transatlantic military and security regime. The authors conclude: ‘The fact that HJS refuses to publish its list of donors also highlights its own illiberal tendencies. Far from promoting democracy both […]
[PDF file]: […] demands on Japan and then by suppressing intelligence about the pending attack on Pearl Harbour.5 It then allowed MI6 to assemble a 1000 strong force – British Security Co-ordination – in Washington and worked with it in 1940/41 in one the biggest covert operations ever seen to neutralise Congressional opposition to US entry into […]
[…] issue here is a British defence secretary who had a parallel advice structure designed expressly to serve the interests of another state and linked to that state’s security services. That is not just a sacking offence, it is treasonable.’1 8 In a later piece, with the answers to questions to the FCO by himself […]
[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 […]
[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]: […] burn the last legal barriers protecting ostensible income reserves — the deferred tax assets accrued from the meagre state pension and healthcare systems — cynically named ‘Social Security’. The Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US debt was as predictable as the burning of a Debenham’s department store in Clapham Junction — once the largest […]
[PDF file]: […] body parts points to him dying as a result of an explosion in the WTC lobby before the plane impacts.3 Two whistle-blowers, Thomas Drake of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Coleen Rowley of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), offer telling 1 The film documentary 9/11: Press for Truth at details the campaigning […]
