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South of the border
[PDF file]: […] nuclear-armed, north American nation. Analysts are sceptical the election will end months of political violence.’ ‘Report from Bonoko Institute for Electoral Democracy blames poor numeracy for delayed vote count in chaotic US presidential elections, notes that in the last two decades, the country’s math scores had stagnated in international assessments of national education systems.’ […]
The view from the bridge
The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)
[PDF file]: The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963) Garrick Alder Above: the masthead of The Cuban Report, as it appeared in Summer 1963. June 1963 was a pivotal month in the history of covert US action against Fidel Castro’s Cuba. On June 19th, US President John Kennedy signed the executive version of a blank cheque, by […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] been an MI6 officer.’ Said claims were made by former British Ambassador Craig Murray (evidently unmentionable by the Telegraph), who wrote this: ‘One person I would not vote for is the crusading neoConservative Rory Stewart. It is particularly annoying that he is constantly referred to as a former diplomat. Stewart was an MI6 officer […]
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid
When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen
Political life in Britain
A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley
[PDF file]: […] the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ […]