[PDF file]: The text below was the keynote speech at a conference at The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) School of Advanced Study of the University of London on 29 May 2014. The conference was titled ‘The Secret Archive. What is the significance of the FCO’s “Migrated Archives” and “Special Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch […]
[…] seems to me to have been resolved in favour of their being a psy-op,13 a conclusion supported by the fact that they were evacuated from Syria to Israel. * new * Chips with everything14 In a review in Lobster 52 I wrote this about a then new book15 about the threat of RFID chips: […]
[PDF file]: […] Brown and Balls apparently learning their light-touch regulation from Larry Summers, one of those in the Clinton years keenest to abolish Glass-Steagall. He pays less attention to Israel among the offshore lobbies, but explains well the general vulnerability of these largely post-manufacturing islands to pressures and influences – some of them extending beyond his […]
[…] owned overseas. See the review by John Booth at or . 13 5 Dallas again 1) a correction In the previous issue, in this column under subhead Israel and Dallas, I stated ‘All we know for sure is that Angleton’s department of the CIA was reading Oswald’s mail in America after his return from […]
[…] entertain the likes of George Osbourne and Lord Mandelson. Some continued to dabble in the politics of their motherland and others with that of other countries, including Israel, with many oligarchs possessing passports from that country. The authors seek to measure the impact of their presence in Britain and list many ennobled Brits – […]
[…] Party to adopt the IHRA working definition of anti-semitism ‘in full together with all its examples’.16 Those ‘examples’17 are designed to make much of the criticism of Israel anti-semitism by definition. For the history of the long march of this new definition of anti-semitism through the world’s institutions, see the essay by Alison Weir.18 […]
[PDF file]: […] FARC, and the KLA a group supplying full service like BCCI before them Who else could wire something together CIA, Colombian revolutionaries, Kosovo to Saudi Arabia China Israel and the U.S.? -gathered near Nice in southern France to arrange in the villa of Khashoggi the richest man in the world Beaty and Gwynne 347 […]
[PDF file]: […] foremost a British term (derived from cricket). 10 A short but useful academic overview has since been published – see ‘Falafel and Apple Pie’, Dahlia Scheindlin and Israel WaismelManor (in Routledge Handbook of Political Management, 2009) Page 35 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 1990, where their novelist candidate Mario Vargas Llosa ignored their advice and […]
[PDF file]: Excusing the Iraq war? Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence Frank P. Harvey Cambridge University Press, 2011, £20.99, p/b At a particularly fractious press call in June 2003, an exasperated George W. Bush declared: ‘This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq….. Now, there are some who like to […]
[PDF file]: […] that the actual response to the attack, the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, was always a side-show. 9/11 provided an opportunity for the US, in alliance with Israel and Saudi Arabia, to attempt to establish complete domination over the Middle East. First Iraq would be dealt with to be followed by Syria and Iran, […]
