[…] ‘Evidence…….is overwhelming that there was a plot involving militia types and government infiltrators – who knows? – as prime movers to create panic in order to get Clinton to sign the infamous Anti-Terrorism Act.’ (p. 297) Evidence of a plot there is. Evidence that the plot existed to force Clinton to sign the act […]
[…] Blair in Johannesburg today as one of his main contributions to the summit.’ Mandy finds a new benefactor In The Times of 10 June 2002 was ‘ Clinton helps Third Way find new direction’, describing a weekend conference, ‘The Third Way Successor Generation’, jointly promoted by Peter Mandelson’s Policy Network and the American Democratic […]
The Case Against Israel Michael Neumann Oakland (US): CounterPunch, $15 Edinburgh (UK): AK Press, £10, 2005 The Power of Israel in the United States James Petras Atlanta and Black Point: Clarity Press and Fernwood Books, 2006, $16.95 In a year in which Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Gaza were accompanied by more stories of […]
Ivor Crewe and Anthony King Oxford University Press, 1995, £25 Few who lived through the launch of the Social Democratic Party are likely to forget the impact of the creation of the Gang of Four in 1981. The avowed intention of the four former Cabinet ministers was to offer Britain a fresh alternative – a […]
BAP There was a nice little twist to be observed by followers of the British American Project when Home Office minister Baroness Scotland dashed to Washington this summer seeking to prevent the extradition of the NatWest Three, caught in the long shadow of Enron. The old friend of Tony and Cherie Blair was a young […]
Mandy, The Independent and Europe As pictures of H’Angus the Monkey, the new elected mayor of Hartlepool, filled the news pages, it emerged more quietly that the other public face of that poor North-East town, Peter Mandelson, had joined the international advisory board of News and Media, the owners of The Independent and The Independent […]
In and out of focus In the springtime weeks when senior Cabinet members Charles Clarke and Patricia Hewitt found themselves in difficulties, it was reported that Philip (now Lord) Gould, the focus group guru with whom the pair worked very closely in Neil (now Lord) Kinnock’s kitchen cabinet 20 years earlier, was moving into a […]
On reaching 50 Reaching 50 issues is something. More or less than I hoped? Obviously, it never occurred to me twenty plus years ago that I would still be doing this now. But I never had any hopes beyond simply selling enough copies to keep producing it (and maybe, one day, producing an issue which […]
[…] www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB35/index.html (Sept 2000) By Jeffery T. Richelson. Site contains documents tracing the National Reconnaissance Office’s development from its establishment in 1961 up to its review during the Clinton administration. The Guatemalan Military: What the US Files Reveal www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB32/index.html Part of the NS Archives ongoing Guatemala Documentation Project, this report was presented in Guatemala City […]
The European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT) has been in the forefront of encouraging further EU integration for over twenty years. However, many Eurorealists appear unaware of the ERT. Intended to increase awareness, this article will merely sketch the ERT and its activities. Making no claims to originality, () the article briefly examines the ERT’s […]
