[…] the chair of Labour’s National Executive Committee in 2005-2006 and a key figure in New Labour’s North-East redoubt for many years. Dougie and Wendy and BAP Mendelsohn’s boss in planning the next election is International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander. His sister, Wendy, recently assumed the leadership of the party in Scotland – like their […]
[…] are based on a large study commissioned by UNESCO. This latter fact may give some hint of UNESCO’s current unpopularity with the UK and US governments. ‘ BOSS in Britain’ James Barber, African Affairs, July 1983 A valuable compilation of the various reports and incidents involving BOSS (South Africa’s Bureau of State Research) going […]
By Peter Dale Scott (18,734 words) 10/29/05 See also A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11 (I wish to acknowledge the invaluable assistance in the preparation of this essay from N, a Russian who for the time being prefers to remain anonymous.) Tajik authorities have claimed repeatedly that neither the US nor NATO exerts any … Read more
[…] in the CFR; everybody is. Still, some very useful primary data here beneath the rhetoric and theories. There is a Trilateral site at http://trilateral.org/annmtgs/trialog/triglist.htm Meet the new boss… same as the old boss One of Lobster’s regular contributors of recent years had been having terrible trouble, first with his answering machine and then with […]
Francis Beckett and David Hencke London: Aurum Press, 2004, £18.99, h/b According to Beckett and Hencke, in the late 1980s Nigel Lawson could never understand why Tony Blair was a member of the Labour Party rather than of the Conservative Party. This question subsequently occurred to a growing number of Labour Party members and … Read more
[…] from The Washington Post from pursuing a ‘Seven Days in May scenario’ that would have implicated the CIA in a Watergate conspiracy. In a memo to his boss, written July 10, 1972, Lukoskie wrote that ‘Bennett has established a “back door entry” to the Edward Bennett Williams law firm which is representing the Democratic […]
[…] 16 Ninkovich p. 164 Warner ibid. p. 5 Francis Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, forthcoming. Warner p. 3. Braden’s boss was Wisner but it was Allen Dulles as CIA Deputy Director who gave the go-ahead for IOD, and Braden worked directly under Dulles. Wisner’s ‘forte was […]
John Perkins San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004, $25.95, h/b ( £14.50 from Amazon.co.uk in January 2005) This is an interesting book, though it is not quite as interesting as it sounded in the interviews with the author which are on the Net. The key material is Perkins’ account of working as an economist for an … Read more
Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research Robin Ramsay ‘The unexpected and dramatic death of the famous, whether statesmen like John F Kennedy, or media stars like Marilyn Monroe, invariably give rise to conspiracy theories.’ Thus Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew, during his disgraceful hatchet job on Hugh Thomas’ books about Rudolph Hess for BBC2 ‘s Timewatch … Read more
[…] although the ‘spin’ is homage to the baby, its real purpose is to flatter ‘ordinary’ people. (A bit like President Bush saying ‘the American people are the boss’.) It is one of the best examples of ‘fusion’ there is rich/poor/animals/the heavens united in reverence not least because the ‘real’ status quo are […]
