[…] the veterans of D-Day who then voted Labour in such large numbers in 1945? Lucas also prompts many thoughts along the way. Why, for example, does Gordon Brown spend so much time in the company of Rupert Murdoch’s Neocon American pal Irwin Stelzer? He also is not, as some reviewers have suggested, harsh on […]
[…] May 2006) opened with this: ‘The long arc of Tony Blair’s rise and decline has been punctuated by journeys to Washington. He went there first with Gordon Brown in January 1993……’ Which is wrong, of course. As was reported in The Observer, Blair first went to Washington in 1986() and returned from his six […]
[…] examines the US military’s heavy reliance on PMCs (Private Military Companies) to help with the provision of essential support services in Iraq. In the vanguard is Kellogg Brown and Root, which just happens to be a subsidiary of Dick Cheney’s old company, Halliburton. Particularly heartening is the final paragraph: ‘If conditions in Iraq continue […]
[…] and not later was the time to strike. It is now more likely that New Labour will begin to respond to dissenter concerns, starting with the Prescott- Brown initiated debate about regional democratic government, acceptance of the need for a proper debate about Europe, signs that ‘excluded’ individuals are to be welcomed back into […]
[…] the lawful order while ignoring those communications which they are not authorized to intercept…the Carnivore device works much like commercial ‘sniffers’ ….'(www.fbi.gov/programs/carnivore/carnivore2.htm) Stop Carnivore http://www.stopcarnivore.org By Lance Brown. What is Carnivore; What can it do; Check your ISP for Carnivore; Carnivore-free ISPs; privacy protection software; campaign against Carnivore. Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act […]
[…] America, along with the central economic and cultural concepts which are in our politicians’ heads: no bigger fans of all things American have there been than messieurs Brown and Blair following in the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher.(3) Since Suez in 1956 no UK government has ever tried to find out how much real independence […]
[…] to become Mrs Hasnat Khan and live in suburbia as his wife’. A child was also part of her plan and she was convinced that ‘her “ brown baby” would help improve relations between Muslims and Christians.’ Diana was apparently so besotted with Khan that she considered getting herself pregnant with his child in […]
[…] wrong. For Bernie Hawthorn read Bernie Houghton; for Guy Parker read Guy Pauker; for J. Lansdowne read Jay Lovestone; for Roy Gudson read Roy Godson; for Erwin Brown read Irving Brown; for Tom Braydon read Tom Braden; for Allan Wilks read Owen Wilkes. The first of these transcripts is at http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/cia_oz/cia_oz1.htm The McGuffin Very […]
[…] specialist Robert Fisk, continues to pose challenges to Blair on foreign policy while remaining generally supportive of New Labour on the home front. Independent columnist Yasmin Alibhai- Brown, under the headline ‘Watch out for these sinister ideologues’ (October 27, 2003), fiercely attacked British neo-conservatives, echoing Curtis’s charge of duplicity being at the heart of […]
[…] DISSATISFIED LOCKHEED EMPLOYEE.THE CODE REPRODUCED BY THE MAGAZINE LISTS M POMPIDOU AS COSMOS, MR WILSON AS POINTER, AND HERR ERHARD AS HALIBUT FORMER BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER GEORGE BROWN FIGURES AS POWDER. * * * On 10th June 1976, not long after Wilson’s resignation, this intriguing telex rattled out of the Reuter news service. Although […]
