[…] early important books on the Labour Party and on African politics. Ronald had a particular interest in Germany in the two World Wars and the Holocaust and Nazi genocide, having been a field gunner in the Eighth Army throughout World War II. He was probably the first British soldier to see the 335 victims […]
[…] 1983) In April 1982 Joseph Bennett, a ‘supergrass’, gave evidence about a conspiracy to import arms for the UVF in 1980. It involved negotiations with the neo- Nazi VMO (Flemish Military Order). The deal between Bennett and John Irvine of the UVF and Albert Eriksson, a leader of the VMO, was simple: the VMO […]
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility Taner Akcam London: Constable, 2007, 576 pp., £9.99, p/b The Kurdish and Armenian Genocides: From Censorship and Denial to Recognition Desmond Fernandes Apec Forlag: 2008, 309 pp., £16.99, p/b Denial of the Holocaust is very much the preserve of the fascist right and … Read more
[…] which deals with Irish affairs. He arrived in Northern Ireland at the height of the Kincora vice-ring. Bettaney is homosexual and while at Oxford was involved in Nazi politics, forming a right-wing student alliance at the University. He was charged with passing on British Intelligence assessments of a KGB network operating in Britain, and […]
[…] as working-class politics in Britain remained strong and secular; socialist organisations led the battle against racism and fascism – as in the example of the mass-based Anti- Nazi League and Asian Youth Movement. Problems began when left sects like the SWP cynically transformed the ANL into a pacifist recruitment conduit and abandoned Asian communities […]
The parapolitical activities of Jean Violet go back to the 1930s, when Violet was supposedly involved with a violent quasi-Masonic movement going under the title of the Comite Secret pour l’Action Revolutionnaire, or CSAR. CSAR was part of a larger far-right phenomenon in pre-WW2 France, the conspiratorial members of which were referred to as Cagoulards, … Read more
[…] Gary Webb’s breakthrough piece chronicling the links between the CIA; the Contras and the crack cocaine explosion in Los Angeles; through the CIA’s use of psychedelics, ex- Nazi scientists and mind control, into the murky worlds of Indo-China; and then, via a chapter on Afghanistan, back to the United States and the cocaine connections […]
[…] this. I gave up after about 60 pages. It is strewn with errors, misinterpretations and inventions. Here are some examples. p. 20 ‘Prince Bernhard drew on his Nazi history in corporate management to encourage the “super secret policy-making groups” to call themselves the Bilderbergers after Farben Bilder, in memory of the Farben executives’ initiative […]
Kenn Thomas Illuminet Press, Lilburn, GA 30048 USA, 1999, $14.95 www.illuminetpress.com The Crisman in the book’s title is a man called Fred Lee Crisman who is one of only two people who were involved at the beginning of the American UFO saga and who appear in the Kennedy assassination story. The other one is … Read more
Hess: A Tale of Two Murders Hugh Thomas Hodder and Stoughton, London 1988 This is an update of Thomas’ 1979, The Murder of Rudolf Hess. Thomas argues (a) that the ‘Hess’ in Spandau prison wasn’t Hess at all but a double; and (b) that both the real and false Hess were murdered. The first proposition … Read more
