[…] In his very entertaining and intriguing book, Plots and Paranoia, Professor Bernard Porter recognises part of this fact. He introduces his book thus: ‘Domestic espionage is the hidden underside of politcal history. It may be immensely important. It is possible that without it we would be a very different country from what we are […]
[…] and hopelessly reactionary; that democracies do not have the right to fight terrorism, and so forth. This may have been the view of Ken Loach in making Hidden Agenda in 1990 but it doesn’t bear up to empirical scrutiny. Information Policy That said, it remains a Marxist maxim that hegemony and state power perfects […]
[…] ops. Disinformation http://www.disinfo.com/ ‘Disinformation was designed to be the search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current affairs, politics, new science and the “ hidden information” that seldom seems to slip through the cracks of the corporate owned media conglomerates…primarily the database draws from quality news sources…’ Includes: mind control (articles […]
[…] as I am aware, this is his first book. I hope he writes some more, for this is a beautiful piece of writing. The Armour-Plated Ostrich: The Hidden Costs of Britain’s Addiction to the Arms Business Tim Webb Comerford and Miller, West Wickham, Kent, 1998 £19.99 (hb) £9.99 (pb) Short (200 pages), punchy account […]
[…] Labourism has allowed us. Newton would be better deployed recounting how Gladstone’s flexibility about such healthy debate enabled him to resist the financial, annexationist interests Newton senses hidden everywhere more effectively than lawyer cronies Blair and Hoon will ever understand today about the more explicit American oil intrigues from the Balkans to the northern […]
[…] potential target areas’ and ‘can be made independent of mains power supply.'(15) Public Interest and Public Emergencies The existence of emergency telephone systems has apparently been kept hidden to allow war planners their customary secrecy. This attitude has resulted in the provision of powerful networks that could be, but are not, applicable to peacetime […]
[…] (it never seemed likely that a lazy dilettante like Wyatt would do all that research himself); and possibly also for the Aidan Crawley series on the ‘The Hidden Face of British Communism’ in the Sunday Times in 1962, published later as a pamphlet. It also suggests that my assumption that Common Cause and IRIS […]
[…] the Hegelian-Marxist political economy of evil. Concrete evil concerns outbreaks of malevolence in history and their connection with ruling social groups; deep politics extends this by investigating hidden forces lying beneath the surface of conventional political pro-cesses. The deep politics of September 11 and intervention in Afghanistan points to covert U.S. reliance on warlords, […]
[…] his handlers that cocaine was being trans-shipped through Nicaragua with the permission of high-level government officials. In an effort to frame the Sandinistas, the CIA installed a hidden camera in Seal’s C-130 cargo plane (the same plane, incidentally, that later crashed in Nicaragua leading to the capture of Eugene Hasenfus in October 1986). Seal […]
[…] either they’ve never read any works critical of the Warren Commission and its conclusions and therefore exist in a state of blissful ignorance; or they have a hidden agenda. It’s one or the other. If these quotes have an aura of déjà vu it is because we have read them before. Remember the egregious […]
