[…] 23 November 1976 Tony Benn noted in his diary, ‘Peter suspected the figures produced by the Treasury.’ As did Prime Minister Callaghan: ‘The only doubt in my mind, borne of previous experience, was how far to trust the figures.’ James Callaghan, Time and Chance (London: Collins, 1987) p. 422. Healey wrote: ‘I cannot help […]
[…] covered from time to time by this publication – principally by the editor in his View from the Bridge column. 2 See The CIA’s Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A ‘Poisoner In Chief’ by Terry Gross for NPR, 9 September, 2019 at or . 3 Yes, I also thought ‘That shouldn’t […]
[PDF file]: […] Postal Inspector Harry Holmes, he ended up taking part in Oswald’s interrogation on the morning of Sunday 24 November 1963 purely by happenstance. He supposedly changed his mind about going to church at 9.30am and made his way to Dallas Police HQ instead, where Captain Will Fritz unexpectedly invited him into the interrogation room. […]
[PDF file]: […] the figures and it was quite horrific in real life as opposed to spin life . . . .” ‘Clegg . . . had already changed his mind about the deficit reduction plans. He was concerned about the firestorm engulfing Greece, and 9 23 Global Research, Nathan Allonby’s ‘Britain’s police state: London arrests based […]
[…] for faint hearts. It has much of the challenging force of those German anti-Nazis – Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Fritz Reck-Malleczewen are two names who come readily to mind – who steadfastly marked out the ground in earlier battles for rights, decency and integrity in a disordered world. Tom Easton is a freelance writer. 145 […]
[PDF file]: […] of war), the length and verbosity of the various US enquiries set up to determine culpability for being ‘unprepared’ at Pearl Harbour, suggest a widespread frame of mind that takes as its starting point that America is entitled to regard itself as invulnerable. 1 Could a ‘demonstration’ of the bomb have been laid on? […]
[PDF file]: […] of ritualistic obligation had robbed them of compassion. I was shocked to see that this important officer of the state of Israel did not dare speak his mind on the street. As he paced the floor, he told me that politics and ritual had crossed swords in the Holy Land for so long that […]
[PDF file]: […] reliably turning up at remote scenes of crime with a pair of open minds, gathering evidence of conspiracies which may well prove too sketchy for the procedural mind of a civil service solicitor at the Crown Prosecution Service. Richard J. Evans has himself explained the problem. Historians bring a whole variety of ideas, theories, […]
[PDF file]: […] to the country that had defeated it. President William Clinton was quoted as saying that the time was at hand ‘to bind up our wounds’.6 2 Never mind that President Clinton avoided the draft and any personal wounds at the time; it does stretch the imagination to compare some 55,000 deaths with over three […]
