[…] however, the protagonists of ‘Operation Dropshot’ were restrained by more rational voices in their aim to ‘reduce the Soviet Union to a smouldering, irradiated ruin.’ The 1962 Cuba missile crisis – during which US president Kennedy’s successful efforts to rein in the pre-emptive arguments of airforce chief (and ‘Dropshot’ author) Curtis LeMay were mirrored […]
[…] bases in West Germany (part 3 of the list raises the total named to 250), this issue names 30 CIA agents stationed in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Syria and Cuba, investigates the history of German involvement in Afghanistan and BND strategy for the area, and reports on the surveillance of the Berlin Alternative List. Two articles […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 20th anniversary edition, with essays by Edward S. Herman, Philip Agee looking back on the 20 years, Michael Parenti and Ramsey Clark; a collection of essays on Cuba; and a couple on the demonization of Serbia, one of them by Diana Johnstone, formerly of In These Times. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue NW #732, Washington, DC […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
