[…] law and order Home Secretary such as John Reid, arrested and expelled from the country, but are instead welcome guests, mixing freely with both New Labour and Conservative politicians as well as maintaining an intimate relationship with Britain’s own security services.(3) The CIA’s role in the overthrow of governments is well-known, beginning with the […]
Thanks again to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Although all URLs are checked shortly before publication, occasionally websites unaccountably disappear. Contributions, comments and info welcome – my email address is Secrecy, censorship FOI and released records Freedom of Information Draft Bill http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/foi/dfoibill.htm Link to the draft FOI Bill (May 1999) and FOI … Read more
[…] of every left-wing group in the country. The right, he says, needed to match the left’s ability to mobilize on short notice and track the activities of conservative Americans. ‘The radical left,’ he claims, ‘in this country has an incredible, computer-connected network that has enormous files connected with them.'(12) Singlaub swallowed someone’s line the […]
Given a WTO-driven free trade regime in a world without enforceable international law and with large accumulations of capital emerging from the supply of consumer wants (including guns, sex, labour, drugs, untaxed goods and unregulated financial services), the lifting of capital controls by the Reagan-Thatcher generation also meant the globalisation of criminality in all its … Read more
Revolutions Per Minute number 9 BCM Box 3328, London WC1N 3XX 70pp., £4 Online at http://www.red-star-research.org.uk/rap/rapframe.html There is a very good Website, www.red-star-research.org.uk, which is the best single source of information on the Blair government, its financial supporters and networks. This pamphlet is a kind of spin-off from that site – the previous Revolutions … Read more
[…] editors’. A deafening silence In late fall of 2003, I went into New York to have a dinner meeting with Taki and Scott McConnell of The American Conservative to discuss my proposed article on Plimpton and the PR, to be titled, ‘An American In Paris’. () The article, a lean and to the point […]
[…] twice. But she believes stuff like this, that was her appeal to the right-wing Tory/spook network in the mid 70’s who ran her for leader of the Conservative Party. This ‘Labour left coup’ theme was recycled in the Sunday Express (October 8 ’89), reporting a speech on these lines by another survivor of the […]
[…] voce approval of two merger agreements. The deal was a difficult one: PowerGen wanted to take over of East Midlands, a vertical combination already rejected by the Conservative Government. In return, according to their lobbyist, PowerGen offered to commit to coal contracts to save coal-mining jobs. On June 25, 1998 when DTI Minister Margaret […]
[…] in 1992, that: ‘….by 1991 “Politically Correct” had become a buzzword to describe a phenomenon that was happening on U.S. campuses. Critics like Dinesh D’Souza, funded by conservative foundations and think tanks, helped popularize the concept.’ In the same essay Brandt noted how in 1975 at UCLA in Berkeley, ‘These feminists were all cruising […]
[…] covert links between the Nazi leadership and reactionary elements in the British state, located mainly in the City, the landowning aristocracy and the imperialist wing of the Conservative Party. (The activities of those representing a significant part of large-scale industry are not really discussed.) In an interesting ‘Afterword’ Padfield suggests that the Hess flight […]
