[…] 14 March 1993. The Independent of that date had as the heading to its second Hatton story, ‘Prosecution hung on two ambiguous diary entries’.) This is the latest instance where there is almost enough evidence to show that the prosecution was mounted by the state simply to discredit an individual. Millions of pounds are […]
[…] his government was the bad guy in the story and the Libyans might be telling the truth. There is, it should be noted at the outset, nothing new here on the bombing. There are, however, thirty or so photographs of Chasey skiing at Vail, Colorado, shaking hands with Senators, foreign leaders, Presidents etc.; and […]
[…] this sort of intervention to be rather bad form. Like the airline pilots, he disturbs the journey only occasionally, usually with a wry aside, as when he notes that: ‘1977 was supposed to be the year of punk, and certainly the music industry believed it to be so, dropping entire rosters of semi-established acts […]
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[…] adversary is inherent to the British approach.’ In his interesting short history of anthropology’s relationship to US overt and covert foreign policy in the 20th century, McFate notes that the US military’s need of anthropologists is stymied somewhat by the state of American anthropology after the Vietnam War. ‘Rejecting anthropology’s status as the handmaiden […]
[…] Programs. They’ve been used on women’s groups like the Greenham Common women and the Women’s Encampment for a Future Peace and Justice at Seneca Army Depot in New York. Because of my interest in the technology, I am contacted from time to time by people who believe they are being assaulted with microwave weapons […]
[…] the University of Kent (Funnell) and two of his colleagues – work their way through the experience of privatisation in the UK, Australia, the USA, China and New Zealand. Very carefully the authors show us what we knew already: privatisation failed in its stated aims of cheaper, better services; but succeeded triumphantly in its […]
[…] agents were used by their intelligence handlers to bring about the deaths of certain members of the IRA’ (p. 193) ‘After twenty years, parts of the military machine were out of control’. (p. 192); Sound familiar? There is also what seems to me to be substantial new material pertaining to the Stalker and Stevens inquiries.
[…] is a very complex subject which really has no place here. However, at some level “sexual politics” does seem to me to be true, does describe something real. Some kinds of generalisations about your average British Movement thug’s sexual/emotional capabilities and inclinations just are going to be true. In this kind of framework, what […]
