[…] are essential for national survival. As supplies of oil become increasingly difficult to access, Britain may find it more useful to look to the recent experience of Cuba than to put its faith in the free-market generosity of other countries. The political results of these exigencies remain to be seen – in practice.(32) Philip […]
[…] the primary originator of the basic US foreign policy move of accusing your enemies of running drugs into the otherwise innocent bodies of the US citizenry (China, Cuba, Nicaragua), while allowing your political allies (KMT, anti-Castro Cubans, Contras) to fund-raise by dope-dealing. This essay focuses on Anslinger as manipulator of Congress, media and the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] (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 […]
