[…] debacle, not to mention the last decade’s inflation of the housing market and the vast personal debt in this country. (And, unless something is done – by Brown and Darling; you think? – we will get more of the same.) Reduce local state control of the environment and you get Tesco, Sainsbury and Walmart […]
[…] who provided the intellectual underpinning for Gaitskell’s politics and some of his organisational muscle, was paid for a while by the CCF. We know, too, that George Brown, Gaitskell’s deputy, was so close to the Americans as to be described by some as a CIA source. We know that Gaitskell was on good terms […]
[…] to benefit from contracts awarded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Halliburton was the largest single contractor in Iraq in 2004 and its former subsidiary, KBR Inc. (a.k.a. Kellogg, Brown and Root), has carried on the tradition by topping the new list with over $16 billion in US government contracts from 2004 to 2006. Not bad, […]
[…] quite understand that. From M. R. D. Foot Scott Newton seeks to revive in your number 39 legends about SOE propagated by Robert Marshall and Anthony Cave Brown. The collapse of Francis ‘Prosper’ Suttill’s SOE circuit, centred on Paris, in late June 1943 can be fully explained from the circuit’s own weaknesses: it was […]
[…] know that behind my back he is up to something quite different’, explained one Colonial Office Under-Secretary. On the other hand, key officials such as Anthony Montague Brown, Churchill’s Private Secretary, always looked forward to the yellow dispatch box in which Young put the cream of ‘C’s output. As part of the effort to […]
[…] Defence Intelligence Staff did know about the 30 November 1987 document and expressed misgivings about its implications. These were not taken seriously enough to lead the government to stop or at least curtail the trade. See Inquiry D4.30. See his In the Public Interest (London, Little Brown, 1995; revised edition published by Warner Books, 1996)
[…] Summers, The Arrogance of Power: the Secret World of Richard Nixon (London: Victor Gollancz, 2000); Chalmers Johnson, Blowback: the Costs and Consequences of American Empire (London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), pp.18 and 71. The document was found on the PRO website at http://www.pro.gov.uk/docimages/KV/2_34a.gif . Haushofer’s list can be inferred from a memorandum Haushofer […]
[…] whom are. One reason why the agencies have lost influence in Parliament is because of changes in the House of Lords. For example, having ex-spook/BP chairman Lord Brown there, is not the same as having, say, a Lord Hayter in situ. The latter was ‘the last family chairman of Chubb’ whose products ‘guarded the […]
[…] was ‘dazzled by Blair’s drive and religious commitment’. Two months later, the leader of the Labour Party, John Smith, died, Blair won the election contest with Gordon Brown; and Michael Levy set about raising money – the figure of £7 million is widely quoted – for Tony Blair’s personal use. The big early contributors […]
[…] first. Information is being sought on the following individuals, most journalists, many possibly connected to various state-sponsored media/newspaper enterprises of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Ernest Ray Lewis Andrew Marshall Dennis Warner Michael Derek Carr Jennifer Hale John Epstein Ian Dunlop James Partington E.C. ‘Jim’ Brown S.J.W. ‘Jack’ Coles David Hay Neave (deceased) Douglas Evans
