Henry McDonald and Jim Cusack London: Penguin, 2004, £12.99, p/b Henry McDonald’s highly readable recent book with Jim Cusack on the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is everything that other recent offerings on the subject were not. On the one hand, it avoids the kind of borderline homo-erotic sensationalism, in which the atrocities of self-serving … Read more
[…] October, 1992. On the subject of ‘youth’, little sophisticated significance can be attached to the various ‘Rock Against Communism’ gigs played by NF-linked bands, although the ‘Anti- Drugs’ campaign launched July 1985 had rather more salience. It is just as well the publicity for the Campaign only featured needles for the injection of hard […]
[…] clear that the mainstream media have themselves often championed doubtful and sometimes ludicrous fantasies. In the 1950s it was widely accepted in the American media that the drugs trade was driven by a conspiracy between Chinese communists 6 and organised crime sometimes in the form of left-wing trade unions 7 in the […]
[…] to Lobster for reviving ‘Transnationalised Repression’. Though the essay starts from events of the seventies (Watergate, the murder of Orlando Letelier in Washington, the Nixon war on drugs) which have since passed into history, the essay also builds to a general overview of transnationalised backing for right-wing repressive forces, or parafascists, that operate on […]
[…] that ‘Captain Spencer’ was the non de plume of Commander Cumming On p.365 we are told that Reilly/Rosenblum was ‘….one of the early architects of the international drugs trade….’. This is advanced because one Arnold Rothstein a significant New York gangster in the ’20s organised shipments of poppy seeds (11) from Manchuria […]
Electromagnetics & VDU News Subtitled ‘a News Report on Non-ionising Radiation’, this is now up to volume 6, and is now extremely impressive – and pretty alarming. Vol. 6 nos 1-2, for example, includes: Dramatic cuts in EMF exposure demanded by US draft report; biggest EMF lawsuit launched by top attorney – then dropped; breast … Read more
Robert Hawke Blanche D’Alpuget (Penguin 1984) “I had the idea that one could not be a businessman and stay a human being.” Sir Peter Abeles If we are moving into the century of the Pacific Basin, then the starting date for Australia was probably March 1981. At a meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce, … Read more
[…] — “a new magazine challenging media censorship’ — appeared here in the summer. The first issue included very useful pieces on the Gladio network, the CIA and drugs (the Alfred McKoy interview referred to in Lobster 21), a recent post-Gulf analysis of US foreign policy by Philip Agee etc. Extremely impressive for a first […]
Ex-British intelligence officer Richard Winch said KGB defectors regularly named 7 ‘MPs, trade union leaders and 1 former Conservative Cabinet Minister’ as KGB agents. (Daily Telegraph 24 and 27 September 1984) What, only 7? According to Frederick Forsyth’s ‘sources’ in the British labour movement there are 20. (See Times 31 August 1984). And doesn’t Chapman […]
[…] Reconciliation’s (an interfaith organisation committed to nonviolence) July 1998 report on Latin America. A history of the use of chemical weapons by the US in Panama, the drugs war and human rights. The Konformist http://www.konformist.com LA-based webzine edited by Robert Sterling. Approx 4 or 5 issues a month, covering a mixture of far-out conspiracy […]
