[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] (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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 1950s to the present day, 89 in all. Some of the company names are familiar to me, many are not. This appendix is the outline of a hidden history of British military activity in Africa. The smack of firm government? In the Evening Standard of 26 September 2002 David Taylor reported that the UN […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] See ‘Sources’ section in this issue. Squall http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~squall/ UK-based magazine. ‘The purpose of Squall is to tool you up. With accurate information and positive inspiration. To expose hidden agendas and highlight new initiatives….to give fair voice to those who have none, have gone hoarse or are frightened to speak. To battle for a better […]
[…] his wheelchair into the street. Las Vegas was as racist as it was corrupt, but the racism wasn’t always expressed as crudely as this. It was often hidden beneath a subtle blend of public relations and backstage negotiations. When the black singer, Lena Horn, played Vegas in the fifties, a deal was negotiated whereby, […]
