Horses for courses? Labour MP Denis MacShane used the hospitality of The Observer extended by his old Oxford pal, editor Roger Alton, to proclaim the virtues of Nicolas Sarkozy and confide, a week before the second vote, that his success in the French presidential election was greatly desired in Downing Street. The prospect of a […]
[…] general magazine to have merged from the American radical/left since Ramparts. The January 1991 issue contained a 13 page interview with Alfred McKoy on the politics of drugs. McKoy wrote The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (Harper Row, 1972), the ground-breaking book which showed the CIA running opium for the Meo tribes they […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of influencing the democratic process. (The coked-up monkeys, similarly, were a rigged sample evidently intended to provide support for a larger campaign – the floundering ‘War on Drugs’). Labour figures moved to distance themselves from the attempted fraud. Campaign manager Peter Mandelson announced that ‘I have made clear……. that nothing of the kind should […]
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
[…] ‘The Far Right and Their Attempt to Co-opt Progressive Forces’, ‘KKK, The Fehme and the Founding of the Nazi Party’, and items on AIDS, WACL, CIA and drugs /mind control, assassinations etc etc. (This is roughly the same agenda as the late Mae Brussel but more intelligently handled.) They solve the problem of how […]
DEEP BLACK: the secrets of space espionage William E. Burrows, Bantam Press, 1988 P. N. Rogers The National Reconnaissance Office is the only ‘black’ US intelligence agency remaining. Formed in 1960, the US only conceded officially that they had reconnaissance satellites twelve years later, and to this day maintain that these are the responsibility of … Read more
Russ Kick (ed.), Disinformation, 2001, $19.95, ISBN 0-9664100-7-6. Available from http://store.disinfo.com. I once sat in on an interesting conversation between two well known writers on the underside of politics. At one point, one of them alluded disparagingly to one of the scruffier areas of the conspiracy fringe – UFOs, maybe. The other reacted immediately: ‘Oh, … Read more
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
W. H. Bowart, Self-published, Tucson, Arizona, 1994. Operation Mind Control was originally published in 1978 by Dell Paperbacks. It came out around the same time as John Marks’ The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, a rather anodyne book which, after dealing with CIA and military LSD experiments which caused at least one unwitting victim to … Read more
