[…] of vignettes: 1998 — Blair’s photo in a local newspaper headlining Desert Fox, Iraq. An old man comments, ‘That Blair’s a big head. He thinks he’s Winston Churchill.’ 2004 — An interview on CNN as the Iraqi insurgency intensifies. The popular nationalist cleric al-Sadr gets mentioned: ‘Well of course he’s a fanatic,’ responds Blair […]
[…] prolonging World War Two. The latter point credits far too much influence to one individual. The fact was that the German peace plotters were not trusted by Churchill and Eden, let alone by people like Philby. The Canaris group, as Matthews shows, did not offer to stop the war against the USSR, and a […]
[…] of the political fringe. Nesta Webster was invited to expound her ideas to meetings of Army officers on several occasions and no less a figure than Winston Churchill stated in a newspaper article written in 1920 on the forces behind the Russian Revolution that: “This conspiracy against civilisation (dates) from the days of Weishaupt […]
[…] Keynes’s name ranks high in the list of those responsible for the creation of this post-war international order, alongside those of Harry S. Truman, George Marshall, Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin.(5) All this represents a good, coherent narrative whose credibility has been enhanced by frequent repetition over the years. Whatever the official story, however, […]
[…] as the Communist Party to affiliate to the Labour Party in Britain. Herbert Morrison changed this after the Communist Party called for a coalition government under Winston Churchill in the 1945 election and supported candidates other than Labour in rural constituencies (Bornstein and Richardson, 1982; 123-141). Bibliography Barr, G and Chicken, H : Beyond […]
[…] Eastern country to whom British companies could sells munitions. In The Times (27 April 1998), Gerald James said, ‘If the truth came out, Astra would make Matrix Churchill look like Sunday school outing.’ But the truth can no more come out, at least not officially, about Astra than it can about the Lockerbie bombing […]
[…] of s23 of the FOIA …… There are numerous dangers with having such a blanket exemption. One of the worst abuses came to light during the Matrix Churchill arms-to-Iraq case in 1992 when the government showed it was willing to see innocent people go to jail rather than disclose documents that proved it had […]
[…] standing on balconies taking the salute from wave upon wave of troops. It can also unite a nation in celebration: e.g. Britain’s Royal Family with Prime Minister Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the end of the Second World War. The Nativity play has the same intent. It has other PR ‘merits’, […]
[…] ‘of a widening of exchange parities (including introducing a floating rate)’.(4) One of the economists involved in this exercise was Donald MacDougall, previously adviser to the 1951-55 Churchill government, Economic Director of the NEDC from 1962-64 and then Director General of the Department for Economic Affairs. He later wrote that on 24 November he […]
[…] know against powerful vested interests. A bodyguard of lies Each new fantasy is fresh and every care is taken to embed it into a rich factual framework. Churchill was only half-right or half-honest when he said that a truth must have a bodyguard of lies. A lie must be protected by as many facts […]
