[PDF file]: Lone gunman? You wait all day for one, and then two turn up at the same time Simon Matthews The Man Who Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin Jan Stocklassa, Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2019, £13.15 (h/b) The Man in the Brown Suit: MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish […]
The View from the Bridge (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that […]
[PDF file]: […] that into political context by reminding us that in the 1980s, when Iran enjoyed US support during its war with Iraq, Libya was clearly targeted by the Reagan Administration. The shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 encouraged Thatcher to become the only European leader to allow her country to be used two years […]
[PDF file]: The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s secret relationship with apartheid South Africa Sasha Polakow-Suransky London: Vintage Books, 2011, £16.00 O ne of the striking features of the apartheid years was the courageous determination of many South African Jews to bring down a regime significantly sustained through close alliance with Israel. In part this was a relationship of […]
[PDF file]: […] held tax free, offshore, greatly advantaging those corporations. The author describes how attempts to control US money supply in 1979-81 were thwarted; and six months after Ronald Reagan took office the International Banking Facility was introduced in America, allowing US banks to pretend to be overseas banks. Thus the US moved to the UK […]
[PDF file]: […] He praises Barry Goldwater (although he admits that, only recently having read what he actually had to say, ‘he really was an extremist’ (p. 168)), and Ronald Reagan (‘How I loved that man’ (p. 19).) And the late John McCain is fulsomely praised. Inevitably he regards Trump’s attacks on McCain as absolutely contemptible: ‘I […]
[PDF file]: […] to drug trafficking by some Central American leaders than it was to support them because they were anti-communist.’ 7 violations and relished exposing the hypocrisy of the Reagan administration’s war on drugs. Senators Kerry and Helms were ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Testimony against Noriega in widely publicized committee hearings they […]
[PDF file]: […] United States is not new. It has been a growing influence within the Republican Party since the 1970s, and played an important role in both the Ronald Reagan and George W Bush Administrations. In order to ensure their support in the 2008 Presidential election, John McCain had to install the appalling Sarah Palin as […]
[…] the Internet an essay entitled “What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want”1 3 concerning the expected war. Included in this were the words of Michael Ledeen, former Reagan official, then at the 11 12 To add yourself to his mailing list, simply send an email to with “add” in the subject line. Blum is […]
[PDF file]: […] told his audience, looked on by the whole world as ‘a shining city on a hill’. He praised Kennedy for putting a man on the moon and Reagan for winning the Cold War. America was truly ‘the indispensable nation’. After 9/11 the British people had ‘wept for our friends in the land of the […]
