[…] we went to war with Iraq and got rid of Saddam Hussein. The rest is details.’ (17) Notes 1 A typical broadcast would include extracts from ‘…Winston Churchill speeches, a rendition of “Land of Hope and Glory”, popular music…, military-style music, drum-rolls, criticism of the “left-wing” social services in Coventry, “humorous” songs sending up […]
[…] decidedly militaristic purpose, being essentially a prerequisite for the development of NATO.(2) It is less generally acknowledged, however, that this unprecedented exercise of international generosity (dubbed by Churchill the ‘most unsordid act in history’) served direct economic purposes for the internationally oriented US corporations which promoted it. William Clayton, for example, the Undersecretary for […]
[…] ‘the Jews seem to exercise even greater influence here over the British Parliament and politicians than they do at home’. The group was firmly convinced that Winston Churchill and his son Randolph (along with Anthony Eden) were ‘the abject slaves of Bernie Baruch’. The LEL shared the DAC’s obsession with the ‘hidden hand’. One […]
[…] facets can be obscured by his meticulous concern for evidence. That same evidence may well bury rather than inspire the campaign for reforms he espouses. The Matrix Churchill affair, I think will prove to be a case in point of this very same process. Yet — and yet, there is for the avid buff […]
Brian Crozier HarperCollins, London, 1993 This is a very interesting book which greatly adds to our knowledge of the clandestine shaping of British politics in the 1970s and 80s. It is also a book which, like Chapman Pincher’s Inside Story, will repay repeated re-reading. But amidst all the new material a surprising amount of these […]
[…] The scale of the Nazi relocation from Buenos Aires to Cairo, and its triumphant anti-British orientation, was denounced in the House of Commons by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in May 1953. Bandung The notion that there could be a non-aligned movement, a world grouping linked neither to capitalism nor communism, was not necessarily a […]
[…] Germany, knew Prytz, probably as a result of his activities on behalf of Stewart Menzies, Chief of SIS. As is well known the talks were stopped by Churchill who threatened to lock up both Halifax and Butler. De Courcy himself had to lie low and found himself under suspicion again when the Hess affair […]
[…] University Press, 1993) pp. 59-70; Mark Curtis, The Ambiguities of Power (London:, Zed Books, 1995) pp. 10-28. 3 Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (London: Macmillan, 1998, p. 140) 4 Richard Kisch, The Private Life of Public Relations (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1964) p. 163 5 Ibid. 6 […]
[…] Clutterbuck, Riot and Revolution in Singapore and Malaya, London 1973, pp. 112-121. 9 Frank Kitson, Low Intensity Operations, London 1971, pp. 24-25. 10 For COINTELPRO see Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, Boston MA, 1990. 11 Kitson, […]
[…] their “customers”.’ (p. 427) Poor old British industry! It has to pay for this vast bureaucracy, and indeed is sometimes press-ganged into working for it (e.g. Matrix Churchill, Astra) but is not allowed to benefit from a few crumbs off the table. Doesn’t this strike one as being a little unfair? Our opponents, that […]
