[…] was asked about membership of paramilitary organisations, he would give a knowing wink — just the sort of behaviour that might be expected from a 18 year-old new to London. Although the state has not been averse to arresting and imprisoning the odd UVF member, according to Brady he has not ever been questioned […]
[…] of the academic mode of analysis, so net tools like Wikipedia, a constantly revisable draft of ‘reality’, scrutinised by knowledgeable and disciplined peer groups, could be the new model for describing and evaluating the world of executive unaccountability as it slips through the net between paper-based evidence and the gossip of ‘unconfirmed sources’. () […]
[…] the others. Such behind-the-scene operations are present on every level, from the mundane efforts of small-scale retailers to gain competitive advantage by being the first to develop new product lines to the crucially important attempts by rival secret services to penetrate and manipulate each other. Sometimes the patterns of these covert rivalries and struggles […]
[…] and Training (IMET), the Pentagon quietly kept on training Kopassus under a different program, Joint Combined Education and Training (J-CET). In a similar way, according to the New York Times, ‘The J-Cet program provided training in psychological operations and marksmanship to the Rwandan Patriotic Army, which has been accused of the massacre of civilians […]
Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba and the Garrison Case James DiEugenio Sheridan Square Press, New York, 1992 Scott Newton The JFK industry continues to flourish. One of its most recent as well as more interesting products is DiEugenio’s study of the assassination and the Garrison Commission. The book has its flaws and recycles a good […]
[…] the miners and wider labour movement in 1985. This was the darkest hour of post-war British history. In my PhD thesis I map the establishment of this new state form through three key film and television narratives which are Defence of the Realm, Edge of Darkness and the TV dramatisation of Robert McCrum’s underrated […]
[…] including prohibitionists, nativists, and racist groups like the Klu Klux Klan. The vast profits made from American industrial expansion, their concentration in relatively few hands and a new mass communications infrastructure gave the rich the means to conduct these experiments in cultural politics. The dislocation and political unrest of the period gave them a […]
[…] its logical conclusion, Eddowes reportedly spent over $10,000 in October 1981 on legal fees and exhumation costs involved in re-opening Oswald’s grave. (5) He arranged for a new autopsy with the consent of Marina Porter (Oswald) to see if the grave contained Oswald or a double. (6) Inevitably such ideas have meant that Eddowes […]
[…] argued alongside the Commission for the adoption of TENs, the largest infrastructure plan in history. TENs includes the Channel Tunnel, numerous airport expansions and 12,000 kilometres of new motorways. Through an intensive lobbying campaign, which specifically targeted national transport ministers, the ERT helped put TENs squarely on the EU’s agenda, culminating in the inclusion […]
[…] was confirmed by one of his friends.) They’d offered Abdul ‘help’ with his application for refugee status and asked him to show the passport to his interesting new English friend, me. Before giving it back to them, Abdul would then have testified that I’d asked him to steal it. A deal is offered The […]
