[…] only paper to give any prominence to the programme was The Daily Mail, whose two-page spread on March 13 conveyed the seriousness as well accuracy of the coup plot allegations. On that day The Guardian’s new political editor Patrick Wintour gave us nothing on Wilson, but a full page on the former leader of […]
The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A Peoples History of American Empire: a … Read more
[…] witnessed first-hand the contacts of the domestic party with foreign powers.’ It was ‘virtual control of the American CP…..too valuable to be sacrificed for a public relations coup.’ (p. 38) In the UK, as Peter Wright first told us in Spycatcher, something similar pertained: MI5 knew who the conduit to Moscow was and allowed […]
[…] investment came from Harvard University’s endowment fund, on whose board of directors sat an old Bush family friend, Robert Stone Jnr. Then in 1990 came Harken’s biggest coup – winning a Bahrain deal against bids from oil giants Amoco and Chevron. This was despite the fact that Harken had never been engaged in international […]
[…] of 2000 silenced M10 pistols. When Werbell failed to secure an export licence, he devised a plan to smuggle the weapons to Vesco.” (Henrik Kruger,The Great Heroin Coup, Black Rose, Montreal, 1980) In 1976-77 large batches of the Ingram ended up in the hands of European fascist terrorists. In Italy in the hands of […]
[…] the conquests left the Generals without grounds for action and guaranteed that there would be no food and raw material shortage to provide a motive for a coup. Chamberlain’s entire policy collapsed with the triumph of the blitzkreig. It was appropriate that the Prime Minister should resign: in May 1940 a limited war was […]
[…] the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. Lodge would drag his heels at reaching any accommodation with Vietnam’s President Diem, while the CIA’s Lucien Conein was busy organising the coup against him, just as the generals dragged their feet on troop withdrawal. With the CIA engineering ‘Quiet American’ style terrorism, bombing a Buddhist monastery in Hue […]
[…] make a deal with the left-of-centre PRD (Partido Democratico Revolucionario)? Or by rival politicians from Baja California? Was his murder a warning from the drug cartels? A coup covertly sponsored by the military? Could the Americans be involved? Their economic stake in Mexico is enormous, and the United States has not been shy about […]
[…] the Times (7th July 1983) Brian Crozier, known intelligence lackey, wrote ‘in Grenada new air and naval installations can only be for a Soviet base. Since a coup in 1979, the island has been a Cuban colony’. Nothing like the big lie. Supporting the Reagan policy of roll-back, reversing the supposed Soviet advance, Crozier […]
[…] Towards the end of 1952, the Cabinet agreed to switch the headquarters of Britain’s Middle East forces to Cyprus. Nasser, the real power behind the earlier CIA-backed coup (where the point was to preserve Western interests), seized power in 1954 and forced the British to agree to a total military withdrawal from Suez within […]
