[…] years before it was exposed, and describes P2 boss Gelli’s plan to take control of Italian society by buying the media and the unions, and forming a new kind of political party – some of which Berlusconi did do. Berlusconi is generally thought of as being a front man for organised crime; but in […]
[…] systems worldwide including Carnivore (see below) and SORM (Russian FSB’s internet surveillance project); plus extensive links on electronic surveillance. The original source for the first Echelon report (New Statesman 12 August 1988) is revealed as Margaret Newsham, who worked at Menwith Hill from 1978 onwards as a software sytem support co-ordinator. Newsham talks about […]
[…] the world from America but has been unable to save the Labour Party from the machinations of a relatively small number of misguided and/or shyster careerist politicians. Notes 1 A short summary of Corfe’s philosophy is at 2 Corfe writes of American culture as if there was just one when there are many cultures […]
[…] a series of essays – Labour and Europe; Conservatives and Europe; economics and Europe; public opinion and Europe etc. – which survey the subject of the UK’s involvement in the EU project since the war. If there is anything new and significant in this second volume I missed it; but I did merely skim it.
[…] the modern ‘security and intelligence community’. Whilst some of the earlier chapters do go over old ground, the later chapters tread into so far uncharted areas. This new ground, it is widely assumed, is going to be much less cosy for the security and intelligence services than before. The end of the Cold War, […]
[…] bent on ‘full spectrum dominance’. As the text for this issue was being finished, the British media was full of stories about disillusion with Tony Blair and New Labour. Just this once I’ll say it: Lobster that is this writer and other contributors – never believed a word of it and the analyses […]
[…] the body taken after the ‘execution’ of Green. As Lobster 4 was being prepared this story broke on Channel 4’s Diverse Reports and in the Guardian and New Statesman. It is of interest, re the reliability of Sunday News reports, that in this instance their story was correct. More on this in Lobster 5. […]
[…] would be dismissed by non-historians as obvious baloney. For example, looking at the rationale of ‘spreading democracy’ offered by the neo-cons for the invasion of Iraq, Porter notes: ‘…the haste with which the US, whenever she conquered countries in the post 9-11 period, set about instituting free markets, privatisation and so on there, usually […]
[…] major mystery of this episode is not that the right-wing should attempt such a fraud, but that the liberal wing of the American ruling elites, especially the New York end of it, should allow them to do so with so little protest. Almost the only voice raised against the ‘Team B’ fraud was ex […]
[…] everyone circles, puzzled, but certain that it must mean something. Eventually I gave up trying to make sense of the jumble of names and dates….’ In this new version Young, Walter Walker and all that has gone. Colin Wallace is not mentioned; Wright gets one reference in the introduction. Instead of redoing Pencourt as […]
