The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European [imperialism] … Read more
[…] ‘…the Civil Service was intensely disloyal. Peter Shore was my minister. Most of my colleagues thought he was a “fellow traveller”; and Benn was regarded as a Communist…. In the whole of Whitehall, at the middle level, there was fear all over the place, and the “antis” were being labelled as Communists and “fellow […]
[…] foreign press with titillating stories. Sometimes, for the benefit of American correspondents, “captured documents” which they were not allowed to see confirmed that EOKA was modelled on communist lines and that an increasing number of young Communists were joining it. The official introduction of sex into the Cyprus problem was another product of this […]
[…] book Stalin and German Communism appeared some years ago, a number of reviewers made the point that she still saw herself as a socialist or even a communist, even after her high-profile ‘anti-communist’ ventures. Regarding Ignazio Silone, the Suddeutsche Zeitung (15 October 1998), citing an Italian periodical, reported that Silone was ‘between 1928 and […]
[…] – by simple causes, usually the concerted, conscious actions of small, or smallish, groups of men (almost always men). Favourites have been the Jews, Masons, and the Communist Party; with minor places for Catholics, aliens from another planet, the British Royal Family, and internationalist groupings like The Round Table, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Group. […]
[…] the media treat, for example, the crushing of the Turkish trade union movement under the military regime in 1981 versus their treatment of Solidarity’s repression by the Communist regime in Poland in the same year. Or how they treat the Polish Communist government’s killing of the Catholic priest Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984 versus the […]
[…] GCHQ 1984 DESIGN ENGINEER 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 […]
[…] was refused a visa by the Soviet authorities. (Guardian 11 October ’89) The Jamestown Foundation, the ‘private’ CIA operation to handle Soviet-bloc defectors; see, for example, ‘ Communist turmoil brings exodus of Cold War spies’, in Guardian 9 December ’89. The late Joseph Josten. And so on. Deacon usefully reminds his reader of British […]
[…] network reviewed below, trace intelligence gun-for-hire Litvinenko’s activities with the so-called Mitrokhin Commission in Italy, the attempt by Berlusconi to use the Mitrokhin information to fabricate a communist ‘trace’ on his political opponents in time for an Italian general election. (And it seemed to have paid off, too: a communist smear was generated against […]
[…] 1947, pages 1 & 5, reports of anti-Jewish riots throughout Britain.)(1) PRO records show that the Home Office regarded the NCCL in the pre-war era as a communist front. The Morris Beckman book about the 43 Group, cited by Renton, is full or errors. He cited a couple of dozen of which the most […]
