[…] it circulate) material about the ‘Soviet threat’ within the British labour movement; and how this nonsense came to be inserted into the conflict in Northern Ireland (‘Britain’s Cuba’ as IRD christened it ). For that – what little hasn’t been weeded – we will have to wait for the equivalent account of the next […]
[…] with press freedom, it is part funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (bit of a clue there!) and is part of the US attempts to destabilise Cuba and Venezuela. See Salim Lamrani, ‘The deceit of Reporters Without Borders’,(7) and Michael Barker’s ‘Media Watchdog as Democracy Manipulator’.(8) PhD student Barker has interesting essays in […]
[…] of the U.S. state setting up phoney radical organisations – “pseudo gangs” in Lawrence’s sense. Think of Lee Harvey Oswald’s bogus branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. And Athan Theoharis’ recent paper on the FBI’s use of the American Legion membership as domestic informers is testimony to an informer network which I’m […]
[…] lack of it) on the EU, the MIA proposals, Brian Burkitt of Bradford University on the economics of EMU; as well as articles attacking the IMF, defending Cuba, and describing the ‘the rise of criminality to the top of the Czech Republic’s “Velvet Revolution” elite’. Its specific political orientation – if it has one […]
[…] (sic), I believe someone sent me a review of the book some months ago that I found in a large pile of mail after three months in Cuba. I read it and put it aside without action as I’ve done for some years on those kinds of allegations. I used to go through them […]
[…] to the US curtailed. This was especially so in Mexico City where Beck went to handle double agent cases after the US spooks were thrown out of Cuba. He writes: “Any case officer contemplating a double agent operation assumes the opposition knows of his or her CIA connections and that he or she may […]
[…] the USSR. In other words, Schotz has got a thesis: he thinks it’s is obvious who killed Kennedy and why. It was about the Cold War and Cuba; and he was killed by the CIA. (Though just in case he’s wrong about that he states on p. 2 that ‘the term “CIA” as used […]
[…] and the collapse of detente in the late 1970s. Absolutely fascinating stuff. The long encounter between Alexander Haig and a Cuban minister, with Haig lecturing him on Cuba having no right to intervene in the affairs of other countries, is an absolutely priceless illustration of the mind-boggling hypocrisy of so much US foreign policy. […]
[…] the opposing blocs put forward propaganda at the Third World. Charles Clarke, head of the NUS in 1977, and chosen to fly the flag for Britain in Cuba, became Neil Kinnock’s chief gatekeeper. Peter Mandelson, we were told in 1995 by Donald McIntyre in the Independent, is ‘a pillar of the two bluechip foreign […]
[…] and Carter got screwed electorally by an alliance of spooks, the military and their intellectual flunkies who recreated the ‘Soviet threat’ (Team B, the ‘Soviet brigade’ on Cuba, etc.). The author’s analysis distinguishes him from others who see a neo-con cabal currently running things. He shows them merely fronting and generating rationales for the […]
