Veterans of a notorious Miami-based CIA dirty tricks team have boasted that they were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. When […]
[…] to the Birmingham bombings. It is a devastating expose of an intelligence system out of control and outside the state system. Talk of democratic accountability from the Labour Party is a sick joke when one reads what took place when they were in power. Both of the above have good appendices (including a long […]
[…] to decipher Israel,’ he says, ‘and if you wish to understand Israel, examine the world within which you live.’ But that apart, the views of the former Labour MP, whose father fled Germany in September 1939 and whose Hebron mother survived the Arab massacre 10 years earlier, could scarcely be more different. Burg is […]
John Perkins San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004, $25.95, h/b ( £14.50 from Amazon.co.uk in January 2005) This is an interesting book, though it is not quite as interesting as it sounded in the interviews with the author which are on the Net. The key material is Perkins’ account of working as an economist for an […]
[…] involved, and the failures of free market economics. For the reader educated by valuable past Lobster articles on the influence of the US lobby on embryonic New Labour (and since), the Reaganite doctrine that now animates the Bush administration and its speechwriters will seem familiar, and its influence in the UK even more transparent. […]
[…] is much harder than it looks at the outset; at any rate it is with the kind of knowledge which people like Scott have to offer and the kind of limp, career-minded politicians we now have in the Democratic and Labour parties. This is vintage Scott. He remains my model of how to do this.
[…] just isn’t sourced to anything of substance and I think the quote is a fabrication. Bilderberging Who got invited to the May 2003 Bilderberg meeting? From New Labour came Philip Gould and Ed Balls. Balls I can understand: he’s the organ-grinder to Brown’s monkey. But why Gould? What’s he going to tell them? How […]
[…] the Democrats willing to take before they conclude that attack may be the only form of defence? Notes I haven’t read the party’s history before 1960 and don’t know. A great deal of this critique of the Democrats – fear of the spooks and the media, for example – applied to the pre-Blair Labour Party.
[…] our boys and girls in uniform by questioning their mission. For most of the rest of the time – not many long periods without wars under New Labour – critics have usually been charged with being anti-American and/or soft on communism or terrorism. The history of the decline and fall of other great powers […]
[…] Stern Report on global warming (now safely dumped into the recycling bin and forgotten in Whitehall) that ‘it was the perfect report for the government………..it allowed New Labour to say that it was necessary to make “hard choices” while at the same time validating the failure to make a choice. This was the party […]
