[…] said the internet saved his life. Protest groups and activists The report discusses the use of the internet by international protest groups and activists, e.g. by neo- nazi groups in Germany and the Zapatistas in Mexico. It claims that the largest and most active political groups using it appear to be the San Fransisco-based […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. This essay leads to the same conclusions as Michael Klare’s study for the Washington-based Institute of Policy Studies: if we are to protect our freedoms and liberties from the inflow of barbarism [parafascism] from dictators abroad, we must act now to halt the export of repression to such regimes. … Read more
Mark Felt is ‘Deep Throat’. Bob Woodward says so, and his word is law in this particular arena. No matter that Woodward had a dozen sources, some of whom may have been more important than Throat himself. The point is that ‘Throat’ is anyone Woodward says he is, and he says he is Felt. In … Read more
[…] all, is the difference between the NF and the SWP? I might mischievously suggest that whilst some (not all) in the NF harked back nostalgically to the Nazi period in which millions were killed by a brutal dictatorship, most people in the SWP look back fondly to a golden age when even more millions […]
[…] Andre Deutsche, 1976) Foot, P : Who Framed Colin Wallace? (London: Macmillan 1989) Hill, J and Bell, A : The Other Face of Terror: Inside Europe’s Neo- Nazi Network. (London: Granada, 1988) Holroyd, F and Burbridge, N: War Without Honour (Hull: Medium, 1989) McCann, E : War and an Irish Town (London: Pluto Press, […]
[…] all the signs were pointing in another direction. It was a sentiment which was strengthened by war against the common enemy of the USA and the USSR, Nazi Germany. Here was a country which many believed to be characterised by a malignant and evil form of capitalism in which cartels and big business had […]
[…] Counter Intelligence) in the I.G. Farben building.” (John Loftus, The Belarus Secret Penguin 1984) Not surprisingly, Bethell ignores the evidence that the Albanians on the CIA-sponsored Free Albania Committee were principally recruited from those “who had previously been denied visas as Nazi collaborators and war criminals. “(Loftus, above). Hardly the stuff of freedom fighters. SD
[…] 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, […]
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 […]
