Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair Things had been going rather well for the British security and intelligence services in the 1990s. Under pressure from the Wright-Wallace-Massiter revelations of the 80s, they had conceded a notional form of parliamentary accountability with the creation of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With members who either knew nothing […]
The SAS, MI6 and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost Nigel West Little Brown and Company, 1996, £16.99 There are two substantial essays in here, one about the SAS raid on the Argentine mainland which didn’t take place, and the other about the SIS operation to prevent the French delivering any more Exocets to the […]
[…] for deeds and orders are taken for their effects. Nor is this a new phenomenon. The political genius of the group that surrounded Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in the 1990s was to see this system for what it was and then to develop rules for the acquisition of power that may have been […]
[…] 2001. Tesco also announced record profits (£1bn – The Daily Telegraph 10 April 2001) due mainly to their huge expansion in eastern Europe post 1990. Blair and Brown have so far rejected the idea of any windfall tax. 3 The Sunday Times 17 June 2001. 4 The Sunday Times 11 and 18 March 2001. […]
[…] the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department; former CIA director James Schlesinger; another well known CIA man, Ray Cline; Robert McFarlane, former US National Security Adviser; and Irving Brown, former head of the international work of the AFL-CIO, the American TUC and a well known CIA figure in the post-war labour movement. Among the senior […]
Blowback: the cost and consequences of American Empire Chalmers Johnson London, Little, Brown and Company, 2000, £18.99 (hb) Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism John Cooley London, Pluto Press, London, 2000, £12.99 (pb) It has recently been revealed that the CIA inadvertently helped to create Soviet chemical and biological weapons by convincing the […]
[…] examines the US military’s heavy reliance on PMCs (Private Military Companies) to help with the provision of essential support services in Iraq. In the vanguard is Kellogg Brown and Root, which just happens to be a subsidiary of Dick Cheney’s old company, Halliburton. Particularly heartening is the final paragraph: ‘If conditions in Iraq continue […]
[…] May 2006) opened with this: ‘The long arc of Tony Blair’s rise and decline has been punctuated by journeys to Washington. He went there first with Gordon Brown in January 1993……’ Which is wrong, of course. As was reported in The Observer, Blair first went to Washington in 1986() and returned from his six […]
[…] and not later was the time to strike. It is now more likely that New Labour will begin to respond to dissenter concerns, starting with the Prescott- Brown initiated debate about regional democratic government, acceptance of the need for a proper debate about Europe, signs that ‘excluded’ individuals are to be welcomed back into […]
[…] the lawful order while ignoring those communications which they are not authorized to intercept…the Carnivore device works much like commercial ‘sniffers’ ….'(www.fbi.gov/programs/carnivore/carnivore2.htm) Stop Carnivore http://www.stopcarnivore.org By Lance Brown. What is Carnivore; What can it do; Check your ISP for Carnivore; Carnivore-free ISPs; privacy protection software; campaign against Carnivore. Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act […]
