[…] 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 […]
[…] The reason it is included is that Thomas has framed the story around a biography of murdered CIA station chief William Buckley. Thomas obviously has enormous respect for Buckley and interviewed him on many occasions. He doesn’t attempt to hide this, but it does skew the book’s perspective. One of Buckley’s jobs during his […]
[…] a former chair of the Socialist Society, lives in Manchester and works as a systems analyst. He has written widely on fascism, communism and the left for New Statesman, Socialist, Casablanca, and Private Eye. Anthony Frewin works in the British film industry. His The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and […]
[…] is left unexplained. Offut Air Force Base in Nebraska is the Headquarters of the Strategic Planning Staff (it was here that SIOP, the Strategic Integrated Operational Plan for America’s global nuclear war-fighting capability, was developed). It’s an extraordinarily unlikely candidate for a ‘black’ B-52 strike mission base. There are many other US bases where […]
[…] license: Losey made a number of films at Nettlefold Studios, but none of his negatives were destroyed – inspires Losey to defy the enemy and release his new film, Time Without Pity, under his own name. In reality the latter film was a turning point in his career. Following its release, Losey established an […]
[…] the Soviet/USSR apologisms, but at the cost of £1.00, this publication represents astonishing value for money. In case your ordinary bookshop can’t get it the publisher is: Harney and Jones, 119 Falcon Road, London SW11. The author, Denver Walker, is a member of the Communist Party and a journalist with “The New Worker”. John Clayton
[…] in mind whenever reading this book. It is quite fair to say that everything I read or see about developments in Northern Ireland has been given a new perspective. It is one that shows conclusively that the British government colluded with the murder of lawyers sympathetic to the republican cause in that province. Their […]
[…] recent book is The Global Economy 1944-2000. The Limits of Ideology (Arnold, 2004). Terry Hanstock is a librarian working in Higher Education. Larry O’Hara is editor/publisher of Notes From the Borderland. Bernard Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Newcastle University. His most recent book is The Absent-Minded Imperialists (Oxford University Press, 2004). […]
Richard Norton-Taylor, Mark Lloyd and Stephen Cook Gollancz, London, 1996 £9.99 This arrived just too late for the previous Lobster and even though it feels now almost like a museum piece, what with the enormous balloon of guff in which we have been enveloped since the election, this is too important a subject to […]
