[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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]: […] connection to the death of Otto Warmbier Nick Must This article concerns events from the last two years that took place in North Korea (NK). Bearing in mind the secrecy that surrounds not only that country itself but also the overt (and covert) efforts of Western nations to destabilise it, some of what follows […]
[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]: […] of Britain – ‘few’ against the Nazi ‘hordes’ – and the much bruited morale and good humour of the little English people in their slums – ‘never mind, dear, put on the kettle and we’ll have a nice cup of tea’1 – under the impact of Blitzkrieg. That’s the popular British version. The saturation […]
[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? […]
