[…] by Licio Gelli, a wealthy businessman who had fought with the Falange in Spain and then for the fascist Republic of Salo in the last days of Nazi rule in Italy. Gelli’s purposes were revealed by his declaration in 1976 that “masonry hates communism because it is contrary to the idea of the dignity […]
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12 Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America on … Read more
An extraordinary claim in The Times by the Cambridge historian Professor Christopher Andrew, that Arthur Ransome has been identified in KGB documents as ‘the most important secret source of intelligence on British foreign policy’ for the Cheka, the terror organisation of Bolshevik Russia, has infuriated lovers of Ransome’s work. Unlike Michael Foot, similarly traduced, Ramsome […]
[…] Nicaragua to be as bad or worse than Nicaragua under Somoza; Mr Kissinger made it clear that he believes Nicaragua is as bad as or worse than Nazi Germany.” Assassination of Robert Kennedy Just published in the UK is Thomas Noguchi’s Coroner To the Stars (Coronet 1984) Noguchi was Los Angeles coroner and had […]
[…] into a foam-flecked apoplexy, they have charged like a lynch-mob after a silly old Tankie, whose ‘betrayal’ turns out to have been negligible, ludicrously equating her with Nazi war criminals and demanding, effectively, a political show-trial. At the same time they have hypocritically called for the release of a real mass-murderer, General Pinochet. Disappointingly, […]
[…] Soviet intelligence agent, The Oswald File, op cit, p. 65. I’m not sure what freelance means in this context, but for the Soviets? No. Osborne was pro- Nazi during the Second World War. There are frequent mentions of Osborne in Eddowes’ The Oswald File, but the key text remains Dick Russell’s The Man Who […]
[…] 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 […]
If Truth be Told: Secrecy and subversion in an age turned unheroic Stan Winer Newton (Wales): Superscript, 2004, £10, p/back ISBN 0 9542913 36 available from <www.gardners.com/> This arrived with a note from the publisher which began: ‘We are a tiny radical press operating from a council house in mid-Wales. We aim to make … Read more
[…] might like to surprise the organiser, Dr. Alex Hay, at 2 Popes Lane, London W5 4NA (0181 567 6772), by asking him. Lyndon LaRouche Jnr, please note. Information Wanted On: FBI smear campaign against American Nazi Frank Collin/Cohn (1970s) FBI investigation into the Silent Brotherhood (1983-4) Fort Smith Sedition Trial (1988) To the editor, please.
[…] to reform, they would say – the British legal-judicial system, tantamount in Evans’ view to the British constitution. He tells us that Britain under NuLab is not Nazi Germany but….. In this milieu Evans focuses on MI5. He is not a fan. He shows their expansion, their lack of accountability and their incompetence. He […]
