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The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett
[PDF file]: […] new report came across my email transom that reminded me of some harsh realities in today’s Middle East. It was the latest Costs of War report from Brown University— The CIA’s Army: A Threat to Human Rights and an Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan. It stated, “the CIA is still running local militias in […]
View from the Bridge 89
[…] that just after the election of the original NuLab, in 1997, I commented that Labour was led by three ‘not very bright Thatcherites’.43 One of them, Gordon Brown, is still talking about poverty here without betraying the slightest awareness that he had any role in this country’s economic decline.44 Hey Gordon, you were in […]
Murder in Cairo
[…] in Naval Intelligence during the war and, under the pseudonym Richard Deacon, published nearly 60, often unreliable, books on 1 2 Harold Evans, My Paper Chase, (Little Brown, New York, 2009) 1 ‘controversial topics on which verifiable evidence was scarce’.3 A former telex operator related how he had been grilled by an MI6 officer […]
The Gloucester Horror
[PDF file]: […] National Archives file AVIA 101/745 is perhaps most interesting not for what it contains but for its folder. In common with such files of government paperwork, the brown card ‘dust jacket’ bears columns that record to whom the completed file was referred and on what date, allowing a reader to trace its bureaucratic travels. […]
‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963
2011: a Reagan odyssey
[PDF file]: […] ally, the Soviet Union, real wars with weapons of mass destruction were waged by the US throughout the planet – mainly against what George Carlin called ‘ brown people’. The phoney war was dead serious in that US strategic planners – several of whom were outright fascists recruited from Eastern Europe or Germany – […]
The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne
[PDF file]: […] 9/11 in 2001. The author details the propagandist role of the pro-Israel thinks tanks in Peter Oborne, Basil D’Oliveira, Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story (London: Little, Brown, 2004) 1 The Dispatches programme on the Israel lobby is on YouTube at . The text of the programme is at or 2 2 demonising Muslims […]
The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock
[PDF file]: Dr Sargant and Mr Sleep The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal Jon Stock London: The Bridge Street Press/Little Brown, 2025 416 pp., bibliography, notes, index, £25 h/b. Anthony Frewin In the late 1950s and 1960s Dr William Sargant was the media’s go-to expert on everything – from psychiatry and mental illness to […]
The Lexit delusion
[PDF file]: […] Murdoch, Viscount Rothermere and the Barclay Brothers, it has sustained a series of Conservative governments since 2010. It propelled the country towards Euroscepticism even in the Blair- Brown era and achieved its most spectacular success in the 2016 referendum and 2019 General Election. The politics and economics of Brexit are therefore right-wing, fusing neoliberalism […]