[…] but also to wage a propaganda war on their own population. Of course, this material has been out there for years, but what is interesting in this new look at it is the way it is put into the context of an overall approach to the ‘threat of Islamism’. Besides revealing the smoke and […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ago, thinly disguised in the Robert Moss/Arnaud de Borchgrave novel about KGB penetration of America, The Spike. (20 Landau, I guess, is an example of the old New Left, who have been right about most things, in my opinion; and, crucially, right about the nature of American capitalism and imperialism. I think this is […]
[…] dear old Tavistock Institute in London, here given three pages and lumped in with RIIA, Round Table, as some sinister force in preparing the world for the New World Order. Oh, really? And his sources for this? John Coleman, he of the ‘Committee of 300’ fantasies, and writers from La Rouche’s EIR. Even worse, […]
[…] has done the bulk of the writing, has a nice plain, simple writing style and an eye for the telling detail which punctuates the who-what-when-where narrative. He notes on p. 228 that a UN arms inspector named Allison, said of the UN team’s reaction as it watched Powell’s UN performance: ‘Various people would laugh […]
[…] ‘Roy wants a coalition government and expects to see one in the first half of this year….Roy said he wouldn’t mind whether Wilson or Callaghan led the new government but made it clear he would expect to succeed whichever of them took it on.’ (January 1 1975, p.184) When McIntosh warns Jenkins that a […]
[…] the whole book. While Stafford has many interesting things to say, he has effectively surrendered to the Churchill myth. What we have here is a Churchillian history of the Secret State that glorifies both the man and the institution. Notes Newsinger’s Mussadiq is my Mossadeq. There appears to be no concensus on this – ed.
[…] sometime full-time soldier, now with the BBC, Urban affects not to be just the traditional defence correspondent, dependent on the droppings of the MOD press office. He notes in this book that while he was entitled to non-attributable briefings from the MOD, he chose not to have them while writing it. While non-attributable briefings […]
[…] replace the popular culture provided by the Occult Establishment for many people. Hind’s pursuit of Open Enlightenment is a daunting task and he is suitably daunted. He notes on the last page: ‘Enlightenment is dangerous. As we begin the work of knowing the world without restraint we will be forced to address subjects that […]
