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Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years
[PDF file]: […] and J.‘Kayode Fayemi (eds), Mercenaries: An African Security Dilemma (London: Pluto Press, 2000) p. 20 7 For more detail see Chapter 6 of David Tomkins, Dirty Combat: Secret Wars and Serious Misadventures (London: Mainstream Publishing, 2008). along with a dozen other soldiers; he was one of the four that were sentenced to death by […]
Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972
[PDF file]: […] A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union 1962-1974 (Repeater Books, 2018) and Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists 1968-1980 (Zero Books, 2022). 1 1 There was a dramatic move from the Old Left to a more disparate New Left. The […]
Sailing Close To The Wind: Reminiscences by Dennis Skinner and Kevin Maguire
[PDF file]: […] the press and a degree of police repression not seen since the 1930s. As he points out, the union argued that Thatcher ‘had 70 pits on a secret hit list’ and planned the effective destruction of the coal industry, something that was vehemently and categorically denied at the time. Thirty years later, ‘we got […]
Brexit beginnings
[PDF file]: […] it was committed to playing its part in European Monetary Union.4 On 19 October 1997 The Guardian noted: The last Tory Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, now makes no secret of the fact that he deeply regrets the day when, under pressure from rightwing Cabinet colleagues, he agreed to commit the Tories to holding a referendum […]
Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow by Gerald Horne
[PDF file]: […] this more apparent than in the support sought and readily given by the both corporate sectors in combatting Cuba’s revolution. One of the executive functions of the secret police and ‘invisible armies’ (CIA, DEA, FBI, et al.) is to manage relations between the state and these two competing and yet interlocking corporate blocks. 14 […]
Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] in 1988 led to a joint career as a magazine publisher and house-husband, balancing domestic duties with efforts to expose the murky machinations of the Anglo- American secret state. Producing Lobster is Ramsay’s main raisor d’etre, but he’s realistic about its ability tc promote major change. “Lobster is a futile remnant of an ancient […]
Beaumont novel copy
[…] of the real world incident – minus the orgy claim – when Johnson was Foreign Secretary, see or . 2 1 Not that any of this is secret. The House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee’s 2020 report Russia analysed the creation of the ‘laundromat’ in London for the washing of dodgy money.3 That […]
Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney
[PDF file]: […] at . Afghanistan. It is here that the second striking assertion appears. He notes (p. 262) that Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s, Secretary of State, has admitted that secret US aid to the mujahideen preceded the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Whitney thinks this probably triggered that invasion;5 and since that ultimately gave us Al Qaeda, […]
The view from the bridge
[…] November that files in the European Central Bank on Goldman Sachs’ role in faking Greek state debt figures to enable Greece to join the Euro will remain secret. The European Union 1 http://osb.revues.org/1115 general court in Luxembourg declared ‘Disclosure of those documents would have undermined the protection of the public interest so far as […]