[…] 2001. Tesco also announced record profits (£1bn – The Daily Telegraph 10 April 2001) due mainly to their huge expansion in eastern Europe post 1990. Blair and Brown have so far rejected the idea of any windfall tax. 3 The Sunday Times 17 June 2001. 4 The Sunday Times 11 and 18 March 2001. […]
Blowback: the cost and consequences of American Empire Chalmers Johnson London, Little, Brown and Company, 2000, £18.99 (hb) Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism John Cooley London, Pluto Press, London, 2000, £12.99 (pb) It has recently been revealed that the CIA inadvertently helped to create Soviet chemical and biological weapons by convincing the […]
[…] the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department; former CIA director James Schlesinger; another well known CIA man, Ray Cline; Robert McFarlane, former US National Security Adviser; and Irving Brown, former head of the international work of the AFL-CIO, the American TUC and a well known CIA figure in the post-war labour movement. Among the senior […]
[…] from Noel Buxton, 7 Mar 1940. Aberconway held many directorships in the iron, steel and shipbuilding industries. In 1939 he had been, for example, chairman of Firth Brown Steel and of Westland, and a director of the National Provincial Bank. Information from Professor R.M. Griffiths (University of London). Professor Griffiths possesses the membership book […]
Do they talk like this? At < www.lewrockwell.com/cummings/cummings29.html > there is a very interesting piece by Richard Cummings about the CIA and publishing; agents and operations are named. At the top of the article is this quote. ‘We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose […]
[…] For more on John Paul II’s policies, see Paul Johnson, Zizola and the highly controversial (and apparently falsified) work by Gronowicz. For his activities in Poland, see Brown (ed) and Hanson pp.197-233. Herman and Brodhead pp. 241-4. Like its ‘Bulgarian connection’ counterpart, it consists mainly of suppositions, hypothesised linkages and circumstantial evidence. This notion […]
Noam Friedlander London: Conspiracy Books/Collins and Brown, 2005, p/bk, £8.99 Apart from being an anagram of Oedipus, Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic organisation, which has grown from beginnings in Spain in the 1920s, led by José Maria Escriva, to being an evangelising force within the Catholic Church, aimed as much at the […]
[…] GCHQ BLUNSON, TERRENCE IRD 50-60’S REGIONAL NEWS SERVICE MIDDLE EAST -80’S REUTERS BROOKE-BOOTH, COL. S.P. MI5 (‘ERRORS OF JUDGEMENT’, NICHOLAS KELSO 1988) 1939-45 COMMUNIST SECTION UNDER HOLLIS BROWN, ALLAN IRD 39-45 BALKANS 50’s JOURNALIST EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS -61 WORKING FOR THE NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS AGENCY, GOA 60’s FORUM WORLD FEATURES 80’s SECURITY […]
Kevin McClure John Brown Publishing, London, 1996, £9.99 Subtitled ‘Doomsday Cults, Hopeless Predictions, Visions and Warning Signs How the World Will End’, McClure gives us a guided tour through some of the wackier people out there on the religious and political fringes, currently and historically, written in his beguilingly simple style. This is not […]
A. J. Davies Little Brown and Co London, 1995, £20 Davies provides in equal measure a perceptive and comprehensive account of the modern Conservative Party which, hopefully, will lead to further reappraisals of Conservative history. In contrast to, for example, Lord Blake’s standard history of the Party over much the same period, We, The […]
