Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more
[…] issues relating to security. Sections on military; intelligence; special weapons; Public Eye (using high-resolution satellite imagery to improve public understanding of the status of nuclear weapons and missile programs around the world); and Target Iraq (www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq.htm) news, analysis and resources on Iraq’s military power, weapons, intelligence and security agencies, plus pros and cons of […]
[…] missing.) Investigating Supergun, Scott asks us to believe that twelve officials, some in SIS, sat on information provided by a British company which believed it was making missile parts for Iraq. This was in June 1988. No action was taken until late in 1989. All this at a time when SIS was known to […]
[…] a consultant for the CIA and employed J.C. Licklider, who later worked on the Pentagon’s early internet system; one of Clapp’s bulk-reducing projects was built by the missile technology firm AVCO; the current Librarian of Congress worked for Allen Dulles in the 1950s, and so on, with many other instances given. Baker also hints […]
Kim Besly Kim Besly died in July. A brief notice appeared in the Guardian on 30 July 1996. Besly was one of the pioneers in this country in the campaign to alert people to the dangers of electromagnetic technology. I met Besly only once but Harlan Girard knew her better and, in response to her … Read more
[…] because Obama won the election). We need that America and the contest over America’s history is part of the wider struggle. The fact that after the Cuban missile crisis Kruschev and Kennedy were trying to reduce the influence of their military-industrial complexes and both failed (Kruschev’s fall caused by JFK’s death and the change […]
[…] Whitaker and Adrian Shaw, ‘Camilla cheats death in car crash…’ The Mirror 12 June 1997; Sean O’Neill and Tom Leonard, ‘”Camilla’s car came at me like a missile”‘ The Daily Telegraph 13 June 1997; James Whitaker, ‘Camilla: I feared hitman’ Daily Record 13 June 1997; Mary-Anne Toy, ‘Camilla ran away. She fled crash scene […]
[…] where Kennedy stepped back publicly from his position as a reckless cold warrior who had marched the world to the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Douglass goes from there into great detail, not only on negotiations with the Russians, and the test-ban treaty, or on opening a back-channel of communication […]
Ivor Crewe and Anthony King Oxford University Press, 1995, £25 Few who lived through the launch of the Social Democratic Party are likely to forget the impact of the creation of the Gang of Four in 1981. The avowed intention of the four former Cabinet ministers was to offer Britain a fresh alternative – a … Read more
The Diana inquest – the people’s verdict? Well we now know who didn’t do it. It wasn’t the Royals. Not that they and their associates don’t have past form when it comes to helping family members into the next world. George V was given a fatal injection on his deathbed in order that news of … Read more
