[…] the Private Finance Iniative (PFI), and there is a mine of information in his footnotes. The central thesis of the book is the assertion that a ‘ coup’ took place in this country whereby the business and financial elites have captured all the levers of power. It is a picture that he presents in […]
Empires Apart: America And Russia From The Vikings To Iraq Brian Landers Hove: Picnic Publishing, 2009, £15, p/b Is America an empire? Tsarist Russia and its Soviet successor were certainly seen as such through western eyes. That America is not showing the heavily ideologised world through which we frame history. In a bold sweep … Read more
[…] a more militantly anti-communist organisation, but Josselson’s focus on cultural-intellectual matters would now be the dominant theme.(57) Coleman explicitly says that ‘it is impossible to separate this coup – at once ideological and pragmatic – from the decision of the US Central Intelligence Agency to assume responsibility for the continuing funding of the Congress.'(58) […]
[…] been engaged in building character profiles of the White House staff for the CIA. In the words of one observer the CIA were engaged in a “ coup d’etat in the making’. We are talking here of elite battles at the highest levels of American politics. Nothing surprising to assassination buffs, but curious that […]
[…] State for European Affairs” warned in an interview.. that Greek-American relations “Can’t be a one-way friendship.” The Cyprus connection, predicted as a probable trigger for a US-backed coup in Lobster 7, duly appears. Daily Telegraph (4 February 1985) reported a “previously unknown organisation” claiming the credit (sic) for a bomb blast in a US […]
[…] them to vote for Tony Blair. In the run-up to the 1997 general election, Blair’s win in this popular media event would have been a valuable propaganda coup, making this something of a ‘double whammy’ in the world of influencing the democratic process. (The coked-up monkeys, similarly, were a rigged sample evidently intended to […]
I was a student here (1) from 1971-74 doing a social science degree; but more importantly, between 1976 and 1982 I was on the dole much of the time and spent most of my days in the library here, educating myself in post-war history, American history, what was available then about the intelligence services – … Read more
[…] left him with ‘almost a controlling interest’ (chapters 10 and 5) – this was presumably part of the carve-up of state assets which followed the CIA-sponsored 1966 coup against Nkrumah. In 1969 Stark was spoken of as ‘a man with a million-dollar inheritance’ and could call on contacts in ‘Parisian radical circles’ (chapter 9); […]
[…] sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-Nato noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek- coup computer model will be getting a spin. A flare-up in Cyprus might be the first stage. (On Cyprus, Christopher Hitchens’ Cyprus (1984) is of interest, especially […]
[PDF file]: […] I attempt a general overview of U.S. relations since World War 2 to the drug traffic, including Genovese, in my Foreword to Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup (Boston: South End Press, 1980), pp. 1-26. 4 3 Brooklyn jail.5 A vigorous prosecution of the Tresca case was even less likely than of the earlier […]
