[…] their own side for the ‘crime’ of battle fatigue. Without this Liberal-Democratic Holocaust’ (which altogether cost 17 million lives) there would have been no Russian Revolution, no Communist International and no Stalinism. Nor would there have been the fascist regimes in Western Europe, which took power with the connivance of big business, and a […]
[…] David Phillips. Interestingly enough a similar claim was resurrected at about the same time the Clark article appeared, during the Garrison enquiry. Clare Booth Luce, ardent anti- communist and wife of Time-Life publisher, claimed that on the night of the assassination she received a call from New Orleans which informed her that Oswald had […]
[…] was set for the 1980 election in which the Reagan campaign took over the old John Birch Society line and denounced the Trilateral Commission as a pro- Communist conspiracy. The rest is history (and may be the last we’ll ever get.) But there’s more to the story Sanders has to tell. He traces names […]
[…] given a dossier originating in the U.S. after the Nice raid. He told the CIA he had organised the Nice robbery and offered to blow up the Communist party headquarters in Paris. (128) Henrik Kruger supplies the additional information that Spaggiari came to Miami. (129) This detail, together with the AIP-Aginter connection to the […]
[…] are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures’. The speech was used to draw financial backing from Congress to Truman’s determination to support anti- Communist regimes in Greece and Turkey. These governments had been propped up by the British but the expense of the operation was by late 1946 too much […]
[…] nothing less than a counter-revolutionary cell, either to overthrow the democratic state (as several P2 members tried to do in the early 1970s), or to prevent a Communist take-over. The members included three cabinet ministers from the Arnaldo Forlani government; the heads of Italy’s three main intelligence services; the chiefs of staff of the […]
[…] pieces of research by Desmond Fernandes on the European-wide oppression of the Kurds. The first is ‘United States and NATO inspired “psychological warfare operations” against the “Kurdish communist threat” in Turkey’, published in the Glasgow-based magazineVariant no. 12: www.ndirect.co.uk/~variant The second is a monograph,The Targeting and Criminalisation of Kurdish Asylum Seekers and Refugee Communities […]
[…] peace flight to Britain, six weeks before the Germans invaded Russia. Yet outside the pilots’ log books there exists no official record of their mission. In post-war Communist Czechoslovakia, many ex-RAF pilots were picked by the STB secret police and jailed or drafted down the mines. Stories of their exploits could not be published. […]
[…] who theorised and rendered the process possible – in terms of a Gramscian war of position or construction of a hegemony – were former members of the Communist Party or members of the Demos think tank. Names like Peter Mandelson, Stuart Hall, Martin Kettle and Martin Jacques spring to mind immediately What particularly interests […]
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more
