[…] the American Federation of Labour (AFL) dismissed the idea that filling people’s bellies would undermine their support for communism. For AFL leaders like Jay Lovestone and Irving Brown, the battle had to be fought overtly and covertly on all fronts: economic, political, cultural. Yet despite labour resistance to the American-led productivity drive across Western […]
[…] activities of Kim Philby. The authors have chapters on “The Philby Connection’ and Klaus Barbie and the “American connection’, but, largely rehashing the work of Costello, Cave Brown, Pincher, David Martin, Thomas Powers et al, these are unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, whether or not one agrees with the authors’ political judgements, they are to be congratulated […]
[…] The only source he can trace is too scared to talk to him. His archive searches turn up electrical anti-gravity experiments in the US by Thomas T. Brown in the 1920s, and a secret 1947 memorandum on disc-shaped UFOs by Lt. General Twining. This states that ‘it is within the present US knowledge…..to construct […]
[…] Spain and Portugal during the late summer and early autumn of 1940 although most of this is familiar, having not long ago been aired by Anthony Cave Brown in C (1988), the biography of Stewart Menzies. And was it really necessary to give a blow-by-blow account of the military campaign in northern France during […]
[…] Front at one point, seeing the far-Right party as a possible vehicle for organicist ideas. (The British National Party today continues what is sometimes called the ‘ Brown/ Green’ alliance.)(21) We shall return to the Goldsmiths below. There are one or two other indicators of the Soil Association’s political attitudes at this time which […]
[…] Notes 1 The Joint Chiefs plan document is at http://www.majesticdocuments.com/documents/archives/nationalarchives.html Such plans continued to be drawn up throughout the 1950s. Operation:World War III, edited by Anthony Cave Brown (London: Arms and Armour Press, 1978) is about another such plan, Operation Dropshot, from 1957. 2 And much better fakes in my opinion – ed. 3 […]
[…] more than 6 million. See ‘A Study of the History of US Intelligence Community Human Rights Violations & Continuing Research in Electromagnetic Weapons’ by Peter Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton at for a general introduction to this the subject. See for example the account – one of many similar – at The symptoms […]
[…] man was Irwin Stelzer (once again not mentioned in either the Rentoul or Rawnsley books). Stelzer, a right-wing economist, had privileged access to both Blair and Gordon Brown before and after the 1997 general election, assuming the role of go-between that had been Wyatt’s under the Tories. (5) Wyatt himself complained of how Stelzer […]
George Orwel London, John Wiley, 2006, £18.99, h/b Having reviewed Matt Simmons’ Twilight In the Desert for the last issue of Lobster I looked forward to reading George Orwel’s book as Simmons’ appreciation appears on its cover. Orwel provides a good analysis of the peak oil debate concluding that the truth lies somewhere in … Read more
[…] doing the City’s bidding, handed over the interest rate to the Bank of England, which promptly put the base rate up, and with it sterling’s international value. Brown and Blair have never understood the basics of the British economy. British manufacturing is so defeated it appears to have even given up appealing for a […]
