From April to late June 1992, I spent some three months in a Dutch refugee camp, OC Zeewolde. I had applied for political asylum. The Dutch authorities had agreed immediately, to fully process the application. I gave them no reason for my application. The Bosnian war was beginning and the Dutch reception centres for refugees … Read more
The rise and fall of the Bulgarian Connection Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead (Sheridan Square Publications, New York, 1986) When the Turkish Grey Wolves hold rallies they howl collectively. So, at times, do journalists of the ‘free press’. In 1979 Edward Herman wrote After the Cataclysm with Noam Chomsky in which they shredded Western … Read more
[…] an interview with the AIDS theorist Alan Cantwell, and some shorter pieces on the Waco siege, the Danny Casolaro story, and the death of the British MI6 agent Ian Spiro. A $5.00 bill should elicit a sample copy from Paranoia, PO Box 3570, Cranston, RI 02910, USA. (Subs outside the U.S. $24.00 for 4 […]
[…] Noam Secrets, Lies and Democracy, Odonian Press, 1994 Chomsky, Noam Powers and Prospects, South End Press, 1996 Coleman, Peter A Liberal Conspiracy, Macmillan 1989 Crozier, Brian Free Agent, Harper Collins, 1993 Cumings, Bruce ‘Chinatown: Foreign Policy and Elite Realignment’ in Ferguson, Thomas & Rogers, Joel (eds.) The Hidden Election, Random House, 1981 Dawkins. Kristin […]
[…] Davis Books, PO Box 1107, Aptos, California CA95001 1107 USA. Goodies to look out for: Exile: The Unquiet Oblivion of Richard M. Nixon, Robert Sam Anson Rogue Agent: The Remarkable Career of Edwin P. Wilson, James Goulden Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA, Jim Hougan Tom Davis also stocks back issues of […]
Terror Within: Terrorism and the Dream of a British RepublicClive Bloom Stroud, Glos.: Sutton, 2007, h/bk, 297 pages, h/b, £20.00 This sets out to provide a narrative describing the range of ‘attempts’ to set up a republic in Britain from the time of the French revolution until the present day. (Although the bulk of … Read more
[…] that the assassination was widely known about in advance, and by low level “street people’ — a stripper, a waitress, a small-time right-winger and a minor intelligence agent. The assassination conspiracy was leaky. This suggests that we are not dealing with a professional job by the intelligence services or the Pentagon. It is hard […]
Media Monitoring Unit This looks like another case of the British Right imitating its American counter-parts, in this case AIM (Accuracy in Media – analysed in great detail in Covert Action Information Bulletin No 21, available from PO Box 50272 Washington DC 20004 $3.00). The main people behind MMU appear to be Julian Lewis and … Read more
Despite ‘coalition’ forces now being engaged in a guerilla war (which no-one seems to have foreseen), analysis of the information war which accompanied the invasion of Iraq has begun to appear. Lieutenant-Colonel Steven Collins, head of PSYOPS in the Operations Division at NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium, had a think about … Read more
[…] for the prize for most inaccurate jacket ever written. It begins by stating that this is the first MI6 memoir (it isn’t), calls MI6 officer Bristow an ‘ agent’, (the one thing which drives intelligence officers nuts), and then makes claims not to be found in the text. Of interest only to serious MI6 buffs.
