[PDF file]: The Establishment And how they get away with it Owen Jones London: Allen Lane, 2014, £16.99 (h/b) W hen Owen Jones appeared as the bright young Oxford ‘leftie’ columnist in The Independent to replace the disgraced Cambridge plagiarist Johann Hari, my hopes were not high. But they were sustained by a markedly more radical and […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Whose Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to […]
[PDF file]: […] from the American line since then. So great is the British state’s subservience to the 2 3 This is not a new problem. Sam Adams was a CIA analyst who saw that the Agency and the US military were consistently underreporting the strength of the opposition in Vietnam and blew the whistle on it, […]
[PDF file]: Blood Year Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror David Kilcullen London: Hurst and Co., 2016, £9.99, p/b D avid Kilcullen has established a reputation for himself as the ‘thinking person’s counterrevolutionary’. An Australian national, formerly a professional soldier with counterinsurgency expertise. According to his own testimony he served ‘the Bush administration […]
[PDF file]: […] that the man charged by Reagan in 1985 with drawing up concrete plans against Libya – code-named ‘Flower/Rose’ – was Robert Gates. He went on to become CIA director under George Bush Sr and stayed on as Defence Secretary when Barack Obama succeeded George Bush Jnr. With Libya having this powerful opponent in the […]
