[…] 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, […]
[…] in opposition to the other. One was Nationalist and the other Unionist. Mac Laughlin isn’t simply jumping onto the parity-of-esteem band-waggon, here. He’s recognising and analysing something real. Crossed with the idea that Ireland was a colony, and thus faced all the problems of an emerging nation, is another theme, that of hegemony. Just […]
[…] ironic. That both novels needed to be so heavily distorted illustrates Orwell’s ideological distance from Western Cold War orthodoxy.’ Shaw draws widely on both contemporary assessments of new films and subsequent evaluations by participants and scholars. Information not easily incorporated into the main body of the text is helpfully appended in more than 50 […]
[…] economic arguments was that the hand of the Treasury can be seen at work just as much in the retreat from Empire and adoption of a new world role (chief supporter on the block of the US ) as it can in the failure to pay decent pensions, build a proper Channel Tunnel […]
[…] Carter administration has taken up Nixon’s demand for an Official Secrets Act which would provide criminal sanctions against future Daniel Ellsbergs. *** John Dean, Blind Ambition ( New York, Simon and Schuster, 1976): p81 cf. Watergate Hearings, Vol.2 p788 U.S. Cong. House Committee on Armed Services, Inquiry into the Alleged Involvement of the Central […]
[…] John Scarlett was still trying to get ‘false and dubious’ intelligence put in the report of the Iraq Survey Group after the invasion had been successful. () Notes At the National Security Archive site, See, for example, Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘We got it wrong on Iraq WMD, intelligence chiefs finally admit’, The Guardian 8 April […]
[…] in Lobster, has uncovered a fascinating mass of information relating to covert cross-border operations by the Ulster security forces, and the subsequent “shoot-to-kill” inquiry conducted by the new retired Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, John Stalker. Basing himself largely on the evidence of Captain Fred Holroyd, Doherty unravels a whole series of covert […]
[…] is one of the best books on the war in Northern Ireland I have read and the best account we have of the loyalist-British state alliance there. Notes 2 My guess is we will never get that, not even if we get some kind of Truth and Reconciliation process there. And there will be […]
[…] Web Conspiracy Page http://www.nova.cioe.com/html/politics.html Lists conspiracy-related net sites and newsgroups. Under ‘top secret files’ the menu includes Bilderbergers, EMP Weapons, FEMA, HAARP, Mind Control, Nazis and Occult, New World Orders, Opal Files, October Surprise. (Had difficulty down-loading – info may be zipped). Online discussion forum contains articles on conspiracy issues and Non Lethal Weapons […]
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