[…] as to why the USA empowered the KLA to take over Kosovo. How the U.S. Restored Narco-Barons to Power in Afghanistan, 2001 It is clear that the Blair and Bush Administrations did have drugs in mind when in 2001 they developed a strategy for ousting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Their plans focused chiefly on […]
[…] was scheduled to meet with the Royal family on the weekend following the crash. Up for discussion is the future of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Mr Blair is determined to hammer out an agreement which will protect the monarchy. A Labour insider said: “This will be the ultimate pow-wow. The issue can not […]
[…] office, came from Jewish businessmen. Wilson (and Falkender and Donoughue) were very pro-Israeli and there are many reports here of Israeli diplomats visiting No. 10. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, his private office was funded by Jewish businessmen, led by Lord Levy. (2) Is it really of no […]
[…] 1993) pp. 59-70; Mark Curtis, The Ambiguities of Power (London:, Zed Books, 1995) pp. 10-28. 3 Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (London: Macmillan, 1998, p. 140) 4 Richard Kisch, The Private Life of Public Relations (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1964) p. 163 5 Ibid. 6 Lindsey Jenkins, […]
[…] on huge cash injections. Kochan also tells us that laundered money in this case from the former dictator of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha helped Tony Blair get New Labour off the ground. “The British Financial Services Authority conducted its own investigation of British banks’ involvement in the Abacha scandal and unearthed one […]
[…] to the newspapers to blow the whistle, or even to go to their union or professional association and begin proceedings against their loopy, tyrannical boss. The Thatcher/ Blair duo’s greatest achievement was getting home-ownership in Britain up to around 70%. There’s nothing like having to worry about mortgage payments to reduce the uppityness of […]
[…] cit, pp. 124-130. Ibid, pp. 72-77. Orwell’s third way must not, of course, be confused with New Labour’s third way as advocated by Orwell’s conservative namesake, Tony Blair. New Labour’s third way is committed not to the socialist but to the capitalist transformation of British society. For Orwell as Tribune Socialist see Bernard Crick, […]
[…] chapters are more interesting and, as befits a former Conservative MP, he has a serious go at the latest ‘C’, John Scarlett, for his relationship with the Blair government and the fiasco over Iraqi WMDs. He also drops some hints about blemishes on Scarlett’s career which can only have come from SIS personnel. The […]
[…] for him to have a sideways move, working for one of the Met’s suppliers. Interestingly, just like the policeman who fatally smashed the skull of London teacher Blair Peach at a demonstration, Harold Chalenor had previously belonged to the military’s blood-and-guts brigade, earning the sobriquet of ‘Tankie’ Chalenor. Donovan Pedelty also fails to deal […]
[…] that it is the press who threaten democracy in confusing the public and the private, becomes ironic when one considers that the sole consistency of the current Blair administration lies in the attempt to abolish this distinction. Notes Claghorn v. Edsaco Ltd., Northern District, 98-3039 Regina v The Secretary of State for the Home […]
