[…] October, 1992. On the subject of ‘youth’, little sophisticated significance can be attached to the various ‘Rock Against Communism’ gigs played by NF-linked bands, although the ‘Anti- Drugs’ campaign launched July 1985 had rather more salience. It is just as well the publicity for the Campaign only featured needles for the injection of hard […]
[…] clear that the mainstream media have themselves often championed doubtful and sometimes ludicrous fantasies. In the 1950s it was widely accepted in the American media that the drugs trade was driven by a conspiracy between Chinese communists and organised crime – sometimes in the form of left-wing trade unions – in the United States. […]
[…] that ‘Captain Spencer’ was the non de plume of Commander Cumming On p.365 we are told that Reilly/Rosenblum was ‘….one of the early architects of the international drugs trade….’. This is advanced because one Arnold Rothstein – a significant New York gangster in the ’20s – organised shipments of poppy seeds (5) from Manchuria […]
[…] an account of some of the effects of America’s anti-Soviet obsession on Italian politics and what stemmed from it: corruption of all institutions, including the Catholic Church; drugs, violence, terrorism and assassination; conspiracy, literally, as normal politics; disinformation by the barrow-load. This book is full of incredible stories, leads, hints and allegations across 30 […]
[…] Reynolds. Reynolds is an arms dealer, and disappeared in 1980. He is also linked to Syrian arms dealer Henri Arsan, who is tied to the Bulgarian arms/ drugs ring which leads to the assassination attempt on the Pope. See Helbert Hellerstein in ST 5th December 1982. 20. The Bulgarian Connection and the Media Michael […]
[…] (pp. 26/7, 92-4). There was resistance from other factions and from Conservative central office which really didn’t want to have its youth wing advocating the legalisation of drugs, for example, and risking the creation of a ‘loony right’ to balance the ‘loony left’ of the Labour Party which the central office and its supportive […]
[…] ‘He’s rattling the Americans’ cage,’ he said. A month later – it’s goodbye Tom Spencer MEP when the Customs just happened to search his bag and find drugs and porno in it. See ‘Named but not shamed’ by John Sweeney, The Observer Review 14 February, the only report of Spencer’s demise which even hints […]
Rodney Stich Diablo Western Press, USA, 1994 The first thing to be said is that this is a huge (650 pages), fascinating book; and I recommend it. It is really three stories interwoven. The first section describes the author’s experience of trying to alert the American civil aviation industry, then the politicians and then the … Read more
Introduction What follows is an interim report about Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. In so far as it has a central thesis, it is that Jones initiated the Jonestown massacre because he feared that Congressman Leo Ryan’s investigation would disgrace him. Specifically, Jones feared that Ryan and the press would uncover evidence that the … Read more
The idea that the Security Service, MI5, colluded with British fascism in the inter-war years is not to be found in the existing literature on the subject. On the contrary the fascists are depicted as the victims, rather than the beneficiaries of MI5’s attentions. MI5, it is generally argued, viewed fascism as a potential danger … Read more
