[…] during the time when the doctrine of containment was being developed and the post-war Anglo-American alliance constructed. Later subjects were front rank US politicians such as Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and key officials such as Robert McNamara and Henry Kissinger. Brandon lived for many years next door to the UK Ambassador’s residence in Washington […]
[…] it comes to stumblefootedness and unthinking fealty to the neo-liberal line. Does it seem strange that I refer to neo-liberalism in the context of the King and Kennedy assassinations? I hope not. Assassination – normally of indigenous people in far-off places like Chiapas – is a powerful tool for keeping people toeing a certain […]
[…] recycles the old canard that Richard Welch, the CIA station chief in Athens, was murdered as a result of being identified in CounterSpy. He even describes John Kennedy as being killed by a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Lee Harvey Oswald, who was ‘trained in Russia and with a Russian wife’! […]
[…] confined location and under medical supervision.) Austin LaRocque and Charles Dyer, both former students at the Fernald State School, told a panel headed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Representative Edward Merkey that at that time they could not read or write and the researchers failed to obtain the full consent of them or […]
[…] by about page 40 the succession of dotty prophets gets wearisome. The one section worth photocopying, perhaps, is that on the far-right’s reactions to the death of Kennedy – essentially relief that a ‘Marxist’ had been got for the dirty deed. For their journals show that they initially expected to get the blame for […]
[…] (Regina v Andrew Harold George) can be viewed here: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/ 2006/1652.htm Dan Eaton, ‘Nuclear activist has new evidence’, The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand), 12 May 2006. Dominic Kennedy and Frances Gibb, ‘Diana inquest coroner resigns as doubts raised over royal role’, The Times 22 July 2006; Jeff Edwards and Vanessa Allen, ‘Too many on […]
[…] fascism, communism and the left for New Statesman, Socialist, Casablanca, and Private Eye. Anthony Frewin works in the British film industry. His The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and Videography 1963-92 has just been published by the Greenwood Press in the USA. Peter Smith teaches politics at the University of […]
[…] the ‘cui bono?’ question (a) without establishing that there was a crime, and (b) without noticing that, even if there were, as with the assassination of John Kennedy, there are so many plausible answers as to empty the question of its force. And like his immediate predecessors in this new Italian ‘market’, messers Cornwell, […]
[…] to read the available literature on the subject. Hennessy’s relationship to the Anglo-American states is perhaps illustrated by his role as one of the administrators of the Kennedy Scholarship scheme which takes bright, promising, middle of the road British politicians and intellectuals across to the States to absorb the meaning of the ‘special relationship’ […]
[…] execrable ‘novel’ The Spike – until IPS lawyers forced changes in the text. In 1984 Crozier wrote to the Spectator attacking IPS director Richard Barnet (a former Kennedy aide) and accusing the IPS of being ‘a front for Cuban intelligence, itself controlled by the KGB’. Barnet sued, the litigation reaching a climax in 1986 […]
