[…] and strong-minded guy, but I don’t think he would be able to admit that Iraq was a mistake. It would be too devastating, even for him. (p. 103) Well, what would it mean? Chiefly, it would mean he was no longer a reliable flunkey of the Americans. Consequently, in most of the world his […]
[…] and strong-minded guy, but I don’t think he would be able to admit that Iraq was a mistake. It would be too devastating, even for him. (p. 103) Well, what would it mean? Chiefly, it would mean he was no longer a reliable flunkey of the Americans. Consequently, in most of the world his […]
[PDF file]: […] America for Christmas. American military personnel were pulled off the plane. A delegation of South Africans, including foreign minister Pik Botha, were pulled off Pan Am Flight 103 at the last minute’.5 4 Jason Allardyce and Mark Macaskill in ‘US spies blamed Iran for Lockerbie bomb’, in The Sunday Times 16 August 2009. 5 […]
[PDF file]: […] Decline of Tory Britain (London: Verso, 2021), pp. 82-3. 16 Paul Johnson and Steven Webb, ‘Explaining the Growth in UK Income Inequality, 1979-88’, The Economic Journal, vol. 103 (1993), pp. 429-435. 17 Charles Woolfson, John Foster and Matthew Beck, Paying the Piper: Capital and Labour in Britain’s Offshore Oil Industry (London: Mansell, 1997), pp. […]
[PDF file]: […] key witness in the trial, it having been determined that a timer manufactured by Mebo Electronics had detonated the explosives that had brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988. Careful procedural arguments made by the prosecution underscored that while Bollier was not being charged at that point as either […]
[PDF file]: […] Reagan against Jimmy Carter, he goes on, ‘set the stage for the Christian Right’s shocking sacrifice of Christianity on the altar of free enterprise in 2016’. (p. 103) What prepared the way for Trump, however, was the Tea Party movement. This powerful insurgency inside the Republican Party was funded by ‘billionaires like the Coors […]
[PDF file]: […] to smear him as a Czech agent. 26 58. This period is discussed in detail in Dorril and Ramsay part 4. 59. Broad and Geiger (eds.) p. 103 60. Ibid. 61. Verney letter to author. 62. Broad and Geiger (eds.) p. 93. 63. This Time Out story was republished as ‘The CIA backs the […]
[PDF file]: How Dare You David Stirling The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS Gavin Mortimer London: Constable, 2022, £25, h/b John Newsinger On Sunday 30 October, the BBC broadcast the first episode of its much trumpeted drama series, SAS Rogue Heroes, with a screenplay by Steven Knight of Peaky […]
[PDF file]: […] on Whitehall’s radar. As Stock writes, ‘For the next thirty years various government agencies, including the intelligence services, would turn to him for advice and help’. (p. 103) These included Porton Down, where Sargant was involved in the non-consensual administering of LSD to soldiers. Sargant and his wife appear to have been ‘swingers’ and […]
[PDF file]: […] we call power?’ This is much more than the anguished grief of the father of Flora, one of the 270 victims of the 1988 Pan AM Flight 103 disaster. The 23year-old medical student had left Heathrow on December 21 to spend Christmas with her American boyfriend. She died when Clipper Maid of the Seas […]
