Hamas and Israel:It has long been known, ‘understood’, that the Israeli state was involved in the formation of Hamas as a way of splintering the PLO an outstanding example of ‘blowback’. Justin Raimondo assembles some respectable sources on this at <www.antiwar.com/justin/ ?articleid=8449>
Bliar: didn’t have room to mention in the last issue The Spectator’s Peter Oborne’s splendid attack on Tony Blair for ‘the politicisation of terror’. (If anything, this is even more apposite now than it was then.) There was a Channel 4 TV programme and a piece in The Independent (15 February 2006, ‘The politics of fear’) based on his pamphlet published by the Centre for Policy Studies, The Use and Abuse of Terror: The construction of a false narrative on the domestic terror threat, which can be downloaded at <www.cps.org.uk/pdf/pub/431.pdf>. Oborne has produced wonderful bullets which no major politician has been willing to fire.
The Turkish state: with American help the Turkish state is still trying to suppress Kurdish nationalism by using terror, now being wielded in the name of ‘the war on terror’. But in a country which seeks to join the EU? Desmond Fernandez has a big study of this, in two versions. The short one, in hard copy in Variant issue 27, is at <http:// variant.org.uk/27texts/Kurds27.html> and the full-length one is at <http://variant.org. uk/27texts/cause_for_concern. html>
CIA: on the CIA see <http://cia-spotters.blogspot.com/>, a French language list of names and some photographs; Carl Bernstein’s groundbreaking mid-1970s piece on the CIA and the media is on-line at <www.rinf.com/columnists/news/cia-and-the-media>; and at <http://cryptome.org/cia- minden.htm> and <www.americanheritage.com/articles/ magazine/ah/2003/4/2003_4_41.shtml> are accounts of two of the long-range psy-ops projects against the Soviet bloc, one by the CIA, the other by the USIA.
Jonestown:the latest editions of the Jonestown report are now at <http:// jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Jones townReport/jtreport.htm>. Fielding M. McGehee III, whose project this is, comments: ‘The sponsoring site for the report at <http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/> includes many primary source documents about the Peoples Temple and Jonestown not available any other place on the web….’.
That man Christie: pioneer of the radical press, Stuart Christie just keeps on doing it. He is now involved in community Web-based TV in that hot-bed of radicalism, Hastings in Sussex. At <http://www.tvhastings.org> you will find some very striking short, Spanish anarchist films of the 1930s. There also are more anarchist films at <www.londonfree.tv>.