[…] no mystery here: he hasn’t read the evidence. Nor, as a mainstream journalist and broadcaster, can he afford to do so. And so his account of the Kennedy assassination (and other assassinations) here is inadequate; as is his account of the Israeli assault on the USS Liberty in 1967, as is his account of […]
[…] Young, Unison etc As I write, issue 2 of Open Eye has yet to appear. When it does it will contain an extremely interesting memoir of George Kennedy Young by Peter Cadogan. A stalwart of the British radical Left for about 40 years, Cadogan makes a curious companion for Young, as Cadogan acknowledges. But […]
[…] – and served as their media guru and “senior adviser” as they set out to engineer an uprising against Saddam. It was as if President John F. Kennedy had outsourced the Bay of Pigs operation to the advertising and public-relations firm of J. Walter Thompson.’ In the UK, Blair’s PR man, Alistair Campbell, got […]
[…] 25 year non-aggression pact during the late summer of 1939. So it might all be a surprise for Roberts – but it’s old news, really. Notes Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (London, 1988), p.429. Interview with Paul Sweezy by Christopher Phelps and Andros Skotnos, Monthly Review vol. 51, 1 […]
[…] infiltration of the Tories was coming not from some continuation of the 1970s ‘bridge’ between the Tory right and the fascist/authoritarian right, symbolised by the late George Kennedy Young, but from the other direction entirely, the libertarians, mainly those associated with the Libertarian Alliance, who were not only anti-fascist but anti-state. Searchlight didn’t bother […]
[…] into films and this might account for the breathless airport thriller style. It is a superficial history without footnotes. We get the odd March of Time sequence to let us know that Kennedy has been elected or someone’s invented the hula-hoop, but otherwise the wider driving forces in American foreign and domestic policy are ignored.
[…] befriended Marina Oswald in Dallas. Yes, it’s another matrix! At this stage you either go, ‘Wow!’, and begin speculating about a hitherto undetected occult dimension to the Kennedy assassination, as the author does, or ‘So what?’ as I did. The author’s approach can be summed-up by his trip to Charles Manson’s home town of […]
[…] from most branches of Beatties. This raises the prospect of a kind of ‘virtual history’ emerging, celebrated, retrospectively, by plastic kits. What next……a scale model of the Kennedy assassination (with a lone gunman)? The pioneering work in this field was Green’s War Planes of the Second World War, Vols 1-6 (MacDonald and Co, 1960/62) […]
[…] some the media treating as legitimate (the alleged KGB plot to murder the Pope in 1981), others dismissed as mere ‘conspiracy theories’ (the assassination of John F. Kennedy), according to political criteria easy to understand in our framework. Edwards doesn’t know about this — or about anything. In short, the notion that Chomsky says […]
[…] McKnight cites an FBI document that the president ‘approved the idea that make a report showing the evidence conclusively tying Oswald in as the assailant of President Kennedy.’ This was the ‘official solution’ and Earl Warren and company simply fell in behind it. Now, we may have guessed that this is what happened but […]
