The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A Peoples History of American Empire: a … Read more
[…] M5S 1Al Covert Action Information Bulletin No.29 ($7, including airmail from PO Box 50272, Washington D.C. 20004) is largely devoted to recent events in the Pacific, the coup in Fiji being the chief focus. However, the single most interesting piece is an essay by Fred Landis showing the links between the CIA and the […]
See note(1) Very few notions generate as much intellectual resistance, hostility, and derision within academic circles as a belief in the historical importance or efficacy of political conspiracies. Even when this belief is expressed in a very cautious manner, limited to specific and restricted contexts, supported by reliable evidence, and hedged about with all sort … Read more
[…] The document, marked CX95/53452 and UK SECRET/ DELICATE SOURCE/UK EYES ALPHA, is entitled ‘Libya: Plans to Overthrow Qadahfi in early 1996 are well advanced’. It describes a coup plot against Gadaffi and proves MI6 knowledge of the plot, via an agent codenamed Tunworth. Shayler had earlier claimed MI6 involvement in such a plot, and […]
[…] the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. Lodge would drag his heels at reaching any accommodation with Vietnam’s President Diem, while the CIA’s Lucien Conein was busy organising the coup against him, just as the generals dragged their feet on troop withdrawal. With the CIA engineering ‘Quiet American’ style terrorism, bombing a Buddhist monastery in Hue […]
[…] then. And rumour, repeated rumour has it that the Palace was involved in some of the ‘What is to be done about a British crisis – a coup?’ discussions which were taking place then. On February 25th Ken asked the Prime Minister “if she will make a statement on the present definition of national […]
Geoffrey Goodman London: Pluto Press, 2003 hb £18.99 As a conventional political memoir, this is quite an interesting read. The big figures march by: Bevan, Wilson, Callaghan, Healey, Robert Maxwell; and there are interesting stories about all of them. The best anecdote has Denis Healey, as Chancellor in the House of Commons in 1976, […]
[…] opposition to Sadam’s regime being replaced with praise of the ‘great revolutionary’ and his ‘non-capitalist’ country. (5) The NCP also announced its support for the attempted anti-Gorbachev coup of August 1991. At the time of writing the NCP appears to have thrown its lot in with China and North Korea. General Secretary Eric Trevett […]
[…] or the violence, such that it is, is specifically targeted against political and economic opponents. For example planning to blow up the cabinet as apart of a coup would be seen as political violence but not terrorism. The second main problem lies in the choice of the term ‘British Republic’. Firstly, because many of […]
[…] him to accept an invitation to visit Communist China so that he would be out of the country when our boy, General ‘Uncle Arthur’ Ankrah, staged his coup d’etat, and some months later when a computer we programmed to make astrological computations induced President Sukarno of Indonesia to make various moves which suited our […]
