[…] history. Can we also assume that whereas he once regarded its atrocities as ‘bad’, he now regards them as ‘good’? He, along with the likes of Gordon Brown, Peter Hain, Hilary Benn and others, certainly cannot plead ignorance. Thomas Powers, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York 2002) p. 189. […]
[…] No less than one of the creators of New Labour. Ms Hobsbawn, for many years a PR business partner of Sarah Macauley, the wife of Chancellor Gordon Brown, was one of the key figures in promoting the political project now so universally respected for its adherence to transparency, accuracy and straight dealing with journalists. […]
[…] 1991. See for example the P.N.L. student paper Fuse issue 167, June 1983, and Searchlight 109, July 1984, pp. 2-3. 22 May 1984, no. 10, p. 1. For a full account see the Report of P.N.L. Committee of Inquiry 1985, chaired by Sheila Brown for the now-defunct Greater London Council, published by Swindon Press, 1985.
A Bilderberg Press Release I don’t think I’ve ever published a press release before, but this is unmistakably a press release from last year’s Bilderberg meeting.(1) There is the occasional oddity in this, possibly caused by e-mail transmission, which I’ve highlighted, and I’ve arranged the participants by country, rather than alphabetically as in the original. … Read more
[…] the American Federation of Labour (AFL) dismissed the idea that filling people’s bellies would undermine their support for communism. For AFL leaders like Jay Lovestone and Irving Brown, the battle had to be fought overtly and covertly on all fronts: economic, political, cultural. Yet despite labour resistance to the American-led productivity drive across Western […]
[…] and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder – a prof with a Kashalnikov! Notes 1 Tony Blair and Gordon Brown believe in the fairy story Uncle Sam. They really do. This is what makes them so useful to the Americans. They didn’t have to be bought: […]
[…] The only source he can trace is too scared to talk to him. His archive searches turn up electrical anti-gravity experiments in the US by Thomas T. Brown in the 1920s, and a secret 1947 memorandum on disc-shaped UFOs by Lt. General Twining. This states that ‘it is within the present US knowledge…..to construct […]
[…] activities of Kim Philby. The authors have chapters on “The Philby Connection’ and Klaus Barbie and the “American connection’, but, largely rehashing the work of Costello, Cave Brown, Pincher, David Martin, Thomas Powers et al, these are unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, whether or not one agrees with the authors’ political judgements, they are to be congratulated […]
[…] Notes 1 The Joint Chiefs plan document is at http://www.majesticdocuments.com/documents/archives/nationalarchives.html Such plans continued to be drawn up throughout the 1950s. Operation:World War III, edited by Anthony Cave Brown (London: Arms and Armour Press, 1978) is about another such plan, Operation Dropshot, from 1957. 2 And much better fakes in my opinion – ed. 3 […]
[…] Spain and Portugal during the late summer and early autumn of 1940 although most of this is familiar, having not long ago been aired by Anthony Cave Brown in C (1988), the biography of Stewart Menzies. And was it really necessary to give a blow-by-blow account of the military campaign in northern France during […]
