[…] no ground was visible: the mangrove trees were standing in water into which their roots plunged. To make progress, we either had to slosh through waist-deep, dark- brown liquid, making a dangerous amount of noise, or hop from one root to the next – a laborious and exhausting process which wore the arches of […]
[…] the book is devoted to the often shocking testimony of prisoners, both those still inside and protesting their innocence, and those who have been released, including Robert Brown, who was convicted of murder in 1977 after being fitted up by corrupt police officers, and released in 2002 after serving 25 years, all the time […]
[…] debacle, not to mention the last decade’s inflation of the housing market and the vast personal debt in this country. (And, unless something is done – by Brown and Darling; you think? – we will get more of the same.) Reduce local state control of the environment and you get Tesco, Sainsbury and Walmart […]
[…] of the man we had just left.” Either Horn is lying or a pretty sophisticated disinformation operation is being run here. The next day, December 6, Derek Brown chips in in The Guardian. His opening paragraph goes thus: “The search for the author of an “Ulster Citizens’ Army” leaflet linking Loyalist militants with sectarian […]
[…] then became almost the “common sense” of the initial phase of the globalisation that followed the collapse of communism in the 1980s.’ Notes 2 Here is Gordon Brown on 26 February 1992: ‘Let no one, absolutely no one on the Conservative benches, try to peddle the misleading statement that the Labour party is not […]
[…] to benefit from contracts awarded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Halliburton was the largest single contractor in Iraq in 2004 and its former subsidiary, KBR Inc. (a.k.a. Kellogg, Brown and Root), has carried on the tradition by topping the new list with over $16 billion in US government contracts from 2004 to 2006. Not bad, […]
[…] Richard V Allen Rt Hon Sir Peter Blaker KCMG MP Baroness Cox Dr Iain Elliot Professor Antonio Martino Advisory Council Dr Robert Conquest Rt Hon Lord George- Brown Brian Key Leopold Labedz Melvin J Lasky Rt Hon Reginald Prentice JP MP Professor Pedro Schwartz Frank Shakespeare Dr Philip Towle Dr G R Urban Director […]
[…] officer to whom White gave the job sympathised with Rhodesia and reported ‘he could find no anti-Smith group to stage a counter-coup’. (p. 344) The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a ‘CIA source’. On the down side there is another endless account of Burgess and Maclean, Philby, Bunt et […]
[…] Prince of Darkness. American imperialism is the agency of God’s salvation. George W. Bush is the Angel of the Lord. And so on. It sounds crazy. Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) could never have got away with it. Northcott nonetheless believes that it is a ‘powerful cultural and religious force in modern America’. […]
[…] between Milgram and the CIA: tortured reasoning in a question of torture’, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43(2), Spring 2007, pp. 199-203; Richard E. Brown, ‘Alfred McCoy, Hebb, the CIA and torture’, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43(2), Spring 2007, pp. 205-213. See also Blass’s website: Jeffrey M. […]
