[…] became enmeshed in pre-assassination Oswald operations, and possibly the plot as well. As for the pre-assassination operations, one clue as to what is being concealed is the suppressed content in successive alterations of a single key document, the DFS account of Silvia Durán’s statement when arrested on November 23, 1963. There are at least […]
[…] X whose presence is not normally acknowledged in the polite discourse of academic political scientists. On the contrary, as we shall see, references to it are usually suppressed. A Digression: Drugs, Meta-Groups and the Compradorial Revolution The question arises whether this is the only such meta-group in the international drug milieu. My tentative answer […]
As I write this in late May 1998, the world is watching two Indonesian traditions, locked in a dramatic struggle to determine that country’s future. One, representing one of the world’s most tolerant Muslim cultures, seeks a non-violent return towards the democratic civil society that prevailed in the early 1950s. The other apparently hopes to … Read more
[…] Transportation Safety Board, whose chief investigator at Anchorage “described the decision as unprecedented.” and that the plane’s ‘black box’ flight recorder had, in fact, been recovered and suppressed by the US.(Guardian 28 July 1984) Most of this material is included in a page-length review in Guardian Weekly by Le Monde’s Alain Jacobs (23 September […]
[…] was passed to Stalin) he was locked away and the whole affair was buried in secrecy in case it damaged morale. Even after 1945 successive governments have suppressed the truth because it would reveal as fiction the story that Britain stood alone and united against Germany in 1940-41. Such is Costello’s thesis. His book […]
[…] For the pernicious influence of the China Lobby on American foreign and domestic policies, see especially Koen. This excellent study was originally published in 1960, but was suppressed at that time by hardline elements within and outside of the US government, who thence published a McCarthyite work in response — Davis and Hunter (1963). […]
Introduction On May 20th this year the San Francisco Examiner ran a story by Kathy Kadane which began, ‘The U.S. government played a significant role in one of the worst massacres of the century by supplying the names of thousands of Communist Party leaders to the Indonesian army, which hunted down the leftists and killed … Read more
[…] following. (And this is a very rough paraphrase indeed.) Fluoride was used in very large quantities by the WW2 nuclear programmes. Its toxic effects were known but suppressed — ‘national security’. The early research showing that it was ‘safe’ was done by scientists working on nukes in the late 40s and early 1950s whose […]
See note(1) Like some Russian high official come to treat with Chechen rebels, CIA Director John Deutch arrived in force — by heavily-armed motorcade, and with helicopter cover. SWAT teams swarmed over the building that was Deutch’s destination. But on November 15, 1996, Deutch’s destination was in fact only the auditorium of Locke High School … Read more
Introduction Despite their reputation for ’empiricism’, British academics have tended to treat political power by means of abstract concepts rather than empirical information about the actions of determinate individuals and groups (e.g. Giddens, 1984, 1985; Scott, 1986). After a brief efflorescence of empirical studies of the so-called ‘Establishment’ in the early 1960s, sociologists in Britain … Read more
