Ismael Hossein-Zadeh New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006 $75.00 (US), £37.99 (UK), h/b This is an interesting and timely book and it is a great pity it is so expensive. Put out as a paperback and maybe with a less academic-sounding title, this would sell. Little of it is intellectually taxing and any … Read more
The conspiracy trail is littered with unresolved leads, but few can be more important than Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to Mexico shortly before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What was the purpose of Oswald’s visit to Mexico City? Was it Oswald or an impostor who visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies? And what … Read more
[…] the US has sorted its relations with Latin America to take China on.() It could succeed far more quickly than people suppose if the stunningly good-looking Democrat Senator Barack Obama becomes its first non-white president. () Whatever his qualities or racial mix, visually he strikes a chord with Africans, Arabs and Hispanics, as well […]
[…] It is not completely clear how Garrison’s enquiry started or why Shaw became the chief suspect. It is said that Garrison became interested following a suggestion from Senator Russell Long, later named as a principal figure in the ‘Save Hoffa’ campaign. (1) If Long’s association with Hoffa undermined the credibility of the inquiry from […]
[…] late 1940s onwards as a struggle between Christian light and Satanic darkness. Religious activism helped many American people to think in these terms. For example, in 1955 Senator Frank Colson announced that The Family was to launch a ‘world-wide spiritual offensive’ and in the same year the organisation funded Militant Liberty, an anti-communist film […]
[…] by anti-communism and a passionate Zionism. Hounam suggests there was a very tight loop of Johnson confidants notably Walt Rostow (National Security Advisor), neo-con godfather, Democratic Senator Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson, Arthur Goldberg (UN Ambassador), the mysterious movie moguls Mathilde and Arthur Krim and Israeli Deputy ambassador, Eppie Evron on the inside track […]
[…] lion, while millions of Ethiopians were starving to death. It was the ‘tipping point’ of the revolution. As the country went through the torture of Nixon’s downfall, Senator Fulbright uncovered a secret agreement between Nixon and Haile Sellassie, in which America pledged to come to his rescue if he were threatened by an internal […]
Who was who? The newly published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography not only surveys the lives of the great and the good, but also includes accounts of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). … Read more
[…] publisher of political reference works. He has been chairman of Brassey’s, the defence publishers once owned by Robert Maxwell with a US subsidiary chaired by the late Senator John Tower, (President George Bush’s unsuccessful nomination for Defence Secretary). He took over the chairmanship of the consultancy firm Prima Europe from Dick Taverne, the former […]
[…] being subtle: but that may have been its strength at home. Clearly, however, it wasn’t enough. Near the end of Norton’s book, she quotes Chalmers Johnson on Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia, giving ‘brilliant speeches week-in, week-out to an empty Senate chamber. They sound like Cicero. They really do sound like a […]
