[…] May 1977 Livingstone became GLC representative for Hackney North. A few weeks later he was selected as Labour Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Hampstead defeating Vincent Cable (currently a Liberal Democrat MP) in a contest for this position. Ted Knight became PPC for Hornsey at the same time. They would both have thought […]
The Kennedys: The Conspiracy to Destroy a Dynasty Matthew Smith Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, h/b, £16.99, 2005 State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair Bryan Clough Hove: Hideaway Publications, 2005, £15 (US $27.50) <www.statesecrets.co.uk/index.html> Matthew Smith has written several books covering the tribulations of the Kennedy family and is described on the book jacket as a screenwriter … Read more
McKinney/Africa/covert action Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand Red spiels The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted … Read more
[…] he knows of other cases of people who have been involved in disputes with the police have been subjected to harassment. Kennedy has approached his telecommunications provider, Cable London; Oftel, the telecommunications regulatory body; his MP, Brian Sedgemore; the Home Secretary, Jack Straw; the Metropolitan Police; and the Interception of Communications Tribunal. But without […]
[…] the British Right in general. It joins a growing body of recent publications in the field. Particularly deserving of mention are Tony Kushner and Nadia Valman’s Remembering Cable Street; Dave Renton’s Fascism, Anti Fascism and Britain in the 1940s; Richard Griffiths’ Patriotism Perverted; Trevor Grundy’s Memoir of a Fascist Childhood; and John Hope’s excellent […]
Marc Seifer Birch Lane Press, 1996. £15.95 (plus £2 postage) from Counter Productions, PO Box 556, London SE5 0RL. In the last 15-20 years the name Nikola Tesla has been one you bump against whilst navigating a mire of (often) unreliable books churned out on the unified field, free energy, HAARP electro-magnetics, and mind control. … Read more
[…] economically and isolate Allende’s govt diplomatically between 1970-73. In a document dated October 16 1970, CIA deputy director of plans, Thomas Karamessines, conveys Kissinger’s orders in a cable, to the CIA station chief in Santiago: ‘it is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup. It would be much preferable to […]
Echelon The piece below arrived, through the magic of e-mail forwarding, via the following: Jane Affleck, Terry Hanstock, and Julian Assange. The report referred to is a companion to Nicky Hager’s book Secret Power (review in Lobster 32 at p. 47). See also ‘The Technology of Political Control’, Robin Ballantyne, in Covert Action Quarterly, Spring … Read more
Obituaries Ace Hayes (1940-1998) by Daniel Brandt Ace R. Hayes, 58, an activist and political researcher who was well-known in the Portland, Oregon area, died on February 13, 1998 from an aneurism in the brain. Corruption and conspiracy in high places is the name of the game, but Ace was on the case. His broad […]
[…] Knight, he demonstrates a general point, that ‘MI5 colluded with British fascism in the interwar years’. Lewis examines the role of the police in the Battle of Cable Street, and in implementing the POA. He stresses that the POA was used more against the left than the right, and argues that the actions of […]
