[…] and the failure to hold the line in Afghanistan and Iraq on the other. October 20 saw important arrests in Italy of Pakistanis allegedly linked to the drugs trade routed from Afghanistan through Kosovo and Albania. () It was not a terrorist-related raid, but those arrested were allegedly radical in politics as well as […]
Colin Challen Vision Paperbacks, London, 1998, £7.99 It says something about this society of ours – and about the academics who make a living teaching what they call ‘politics’ – that this is the first book about the funding of the political party which has been in power for most of this century; and it … Read more
[…] bridges with the Republican Party. As the Democrats became radicalised by war in Vietnam, by environmentalism and feminism, by new sexual freedom and a permissive attitude towards drugs, the Republicans gained support from social conservatives and the evangelicals began what they saw as a crusade against godless hedonism and flagrant disregard for the divine […]
[…] Gulf War participants believe that health problems arising since their return from the Gulf are caused by exposure to hazardous substances encountered there. These include diesel fuel, drugs, vaccines, pesticides and smoke from oil well fires. Some veterans believe their exposure has also resulted in reproductive problems including birth defects, infertility and miscarriages. This […]
Into the Dark Johnston Brown Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2006, £22.99, h/b When Fred Holroyd first made his disclosures regarding the activities of SAS Captain Robert Nairac to Duncan Campbell of The New Statesman in 1984, they were credible because Holroyd was a loyal Army Intelligence Captain with absolutely no sympathies for IRA terrorism. … Read more
The CIA’s LSD testing program was part of its larger MKULTRA Program, which remains very much a mystery, primarily because its chief operating officer, Dr Sid Gottlieb, destroyed the majority of MKULTRA documents in 1973 during the Watergate scramble to plug leaks and obliterate history. Helping Gottlieb destroy these documents was the then Director of … Read more
Frost/Nixon Or, a load of old dick When Frost/Nixon first appeared at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London back in 2006 I wondered why on earth anyone would want to stage, to recreate, what was, essentially, a non-event. Why indeed? One can imagine mere actors relishing the opportunity to ‘interpret’ Frost and Nixon but who … Read more
[…] possible eighteen Directorate members, two had resigned – Paul Johnson (charged with sending fake explosive devices through the post) and Roger Denny (in embarrassment over a soft drugs offence). Thus, even with the imprisoned Pearce’s proxy vote, the ‘Flag’ tendency now only had seven Directorate votes: Acton, Anderson, Brons, the veteran Tom Mundy, Paul […]
[…] friend of the victim, Lysa Rubotham, who was present throughout, insists that no rape took place. Tenthly, the victim admitted to being a regular user of hallucinatory drugs. Something is wrong, and I want something done about it.’ The Crown Prosecution Service did nothing about it. Greater Manchester Police even wrote to Campbell-Savours to […]
The three Arrigos In the last Lobster (‘Spookaroonie’, p. 26) I noted the comments on <intelforum.org> of Maria Arrigo, a ‘social psychologist with experience in [intelligence] operations’ asking for evidence of ‘covert weapons experiments in post-war South America’ and wondered what was afoot. It was just an interesting little snippet which I came across at … Read more
