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View from Bridge 89
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from […]
The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine
[…] threats to the m-i-c were the attempts by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy to reduce tension with the Soviet bloc and thus cut military expenditure. With this in mind Eisenhower planned a big pow-wow with Khruschev in Paris in 1960. What happened? The authors write: ‘…..against all odds, the worse scenario occurred: the U2 flight […]
The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine
[PDF file]: […] the great self-promoting, warrior chieftain and third generation mass murderer in the commission of the United States, Douglas MacArthur, are summarised for context.5 This serves to re mind the reader of the difference between the war story for public consumption and the war stories that are suppressed because they neither flatter the mass murdering […]
Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 by Jack Colhoun
[PDF file]: […] simultaneously trying to appease the anti-Castro Cubans and the US military/intelligence who wanted action; wanted to manage the ‘Cuba problem’ politically with the 1964 presidential election in mind; and cool the Cold War with the Soviets. There is more that could be said and other emphases that could be made. (No doubt some of […]
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
[PDF file]: […] the powers-that-be. According to Greenwald’s somewhat hysterical formulation, the citizen understands that if they ‘. . . pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you’ll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that […]
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
[PDF file]: […] this book who is not altogether captivated by Johnson is the transparency of his effort to associate himself with the Churchill myth, to plant in his reader’s mind the notion that he has the Churchill Factor. Let us look at his discussion of Conservative MPs attitudes towards Churchill in May 1940. They regarded him […]
Undercover killers at the BBC
[PDF file]: […] dead four years later on a ridge 700 metres below the summit of Mount Snowdon. A coroner found that he died of exposure when his state of mind was affected by alcohol, sleeping pills and confusion due to his personal situation. Paul Atkinson has now revealed how nine months before the Burnt House Farm […]
Tittle-tattle
To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’
[PDF file]: […] compelled to adopt consent rules for the storage of data from European users on US servers – is never seen as a risk to ‘Internet freedom’. Never mind that virtually all Internet software, and much of the hardware, originates from US corporations. There is an old joke on the Left about the US regime: […]