[…] be what you would expect from something published by the NISC (President Ray S. Cline). This is mainstream, (ie by contemporary American standards centre-right) academic, orthodox anti- Communist, anti-Soviet, anti-left material. The single issue we have carries a long review of a book purporting to show that the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is […]
[…] green credentials impress you when he was Bill Clinton’s vice-president and you were an eager young Guardian newshound in DC? Freedland’s fellow Guardian columnist Martin Kettle, the Communist turned great friend of Tony Blair and New Labour, has just discovered the City of London is not all it’s cracked up to be. As the […]
[…] may explain what appear to be errors. The Pinay Circle is an informal group which meets twice a year in different locations. It includes conservative and anti- communist politicians, journalists, bankers etc., and occasional guests, all of whom originally gravitated around former French President Pinay. A meeting took place at the Madison Hotel, Washington, […]
[…] I took no more notice, except to recount the story as a funny joke, until Will Warren visited me soon afterwards. Will had come out of the Communist Party at the same time as Newton and told me that his divisional committee of the party had once devoted a whole meeting to discussing whether […]
[…] is impossible: events and the words of the players can be interpreted in different ways. Curtis takes as his starting point the fact that while the ‘ communist threat’ has disappeared, the actions of the US and its major flunkey, the UK, remain unchanged. In other words, whatever the diplomats at the time thought […]
[…] pain in various parts of my body. It all started in October 1985 after I had openly criticized the first secretary of the City Committee of the Communist Party.’ The article also reported victims hearing ‘voices in the head’ from ‘microwave pulse radiation’. All these are familiar from U.S. and European victims. I have […]
[…] link post-war anti-communism with the current anti-Muslim strategies in what the Bush regime has now designated as ‘the long war’ between ‘freedom’ and ‘totalitarianism’. Once it was communist totalitarianism and now it is Muslim totalitarianism: same struggle, different enemies. This is clearly going to be the new line: the struggle against totalitarianism that has […]
[…] and British trade unions An important piece appeared in issue 9 of Perspectives. Peter E. Newell writes (albeit briefly) of his experience in the 1960s producing anti- communist prop-agenda for the journal of the Union of Post Office Workers, and his concomitant contact with personnel from IRIS, the CIA and the ICFTU. Perspectives is […]
[…] attributes to it is true — but not always. Therein lies the problem — and the intellectual interest. Brian Crozier’s views on the role of the Soviet Communist Party and KGB would certainly score on the first four of Pipes’ list, but not the fifth. I score about 50% on Mr Pipes list. Appearances […]
[…] German military had co-operated with the Soviet Union. Hitler had been much more reliable than this. He had stopped the military co-operation, he had crushed the alleged Communist threat in Germany and was regarded by many influential figures in Britain as the best bastion civilisation could have against Soviet expansion. The author puts a […]
