[…] 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. […]
[…] that this has more to do with reducing current public debt, perhaps with an eye on Euro membership, than it has with a few sleazy donations. Gordon Brown would argue that it means getting an immediate surge in public investment without a return to ‘boom and bust’. But specific one-off cases, like the Ecclestone […]
[…] voted at each, as the computer records showed. Sir Ken was praised by Tony Blair in a video distributed to the union, and was endorsed by Gordon Brown over lunch at an Amicus AEEU conference in Blackpool. Under Sir Ken, lest we forget, Amicus had donated £2m to Labour’s 2001 election fund. (3) Meanwhile, […]
Following the initial investigation by the West Mercia Police, there have been over a dozen reviews of this extraordinary case. Reviewers include Robert Green, (1) Tam Dalyell MP, (2) Graham Smith,(3) World in Action,(4) BBC Crimewatch,(5) John Osborne,(6) Amanda Mitchison, (7) Bob Parker (8); and more recently, David Cole and Peter Acland, (9) Nick Davies,(10) … Read more
[…] history. Can we also assume that whereas he once regarded its atrocities as ‘bad’, he now regards them as ‘good’? He, along with the likes of Gordon Brown, Peter Hain, Hilary Benn and others, certainly cannot plead ignorance. Thomas Powers, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York 2002) p. 189. […]
[…] same thing as Stuart Hall and Peter Hitchens. He also wrote off the working-class as a significant political force and therefore agrees with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that ‘the class war is over’. How then, does he propose to change things? People can run around the world from G8 summit to IMF conferences […]
George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the arrest […]
[…] Secretary Rifkind to take his sacking to an industrial tribunal, and had his appeal against dismissal rejected by the chairman of the Intelligence Service Tribunal, Lord Justice Brown. Tomlinson’s mother said (the Sunday Times 21 December 1997) that her son described the Intelligence Service Tribunal as ‘a complete farce, a star chamber where he […]
[…] to the dog in the back seat) but got a good look at the driver and described him as a European male aged approximately 50, with short-cut brown hair. Le Van Than is conspicuously Asian, was 22 years old at the time of the crash and had (and has) a thick mop of jet-black […]
