Tom Bower London: Fourth Estate, 2001, £6.99 After tackling the Paperclip Conspiracy, Klaus Barbie, Nazi medical experiments, looted cash from holocaust victims in Swiss banks and various tycoons (Rowland, Maxwell, Fayed) the latest target for a thorough Tom Bower investigation is Sir Richard Branson, though this is a tale on a smaller scale […]
[…] is its listings of overseas groups or parties who have either a formal or informal input into British politics. The ANC, Earth First, Queer Nation, the ( Nazi) Church of the Creator, the (French) Front National, and various other political groups, parties or terrorist groups are included. Similarly useful are listings for now defunct […]
[…] that the Duke of Hamilton later in the war got RAF permission to sue the Communist Daily Worker newspaper for suggesting he was part of a pro- Nazi peace plot. MI6, who had in 1940 intercepted a letter to the Duke of Hamilton, sent from Berlin via Lisbon, had exonerated the Duke of being […]
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility Taner Akcam London: Constable, 2007, 576 pp., £9.99, p/b The Kurdish and Armenian Genocides: From Censorship and Denial to Recognition Desmond Fernandes Apec Forlag: 2008, 309 pp., £16.99, p/b Denial of the Holocaust is very much the preserve of the fascist right and … Read more
[…] find). Despite his patently foolish credulity in being taken in by the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and his refusal to acknowledge the scale of the Nazi project to exterminate the Jews, the author does offer some unique and well-researched findings on the penetration of Zionist influence in London and Washington, especially during […]
Louis Kilzer Presidio Press, U.S., 2000, £18.99 (1) Louis Kilzer has won two Pulitzer Prizes and is the chief investigative writer of the Denver Rocky Mountain News. A couple of chapters into this book it became clear why Kenneth de Courcy sold so many newsletters in the American Mid-West. A low point – or […]
[…] the ceremony included Hitler and Goebbels. The secrecy attending this event has generally been put down to his chivalrous desire to protect Diana. That such an unashamed Nazi and Hitler lover as Diana ever needed protection was always dubious and now it is absolutely clear that Mosley’s motives were less elevated: he did not […]
A history of ASIO and National Surveillance Frank Cain Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009, p/b, $39.95. ISBN 978 1 921509 322 Frank Cain was just a name to me but a little googling showed that he is Australia’s leading academic historian of intelligence and security history. This history of ASIO and its antecedents – more … Read more
[…] in attempts to revise the Holocaust out of existence, it offers the only attempt I am aware of at an integrated survey of recent and current neo- nazi activities. Much of this will be familiar in outline to readers of Searchlight, but even the familiar sections – WACL, Northern League, Pearson, GRECE – have […]
The rise and fall of the Bulgarian Connection Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead (Sheridan Square Publications, New York, 1986) When the Turkish Grey Wolves hold rallies they howl collectively. So, at times, do journalists of the ‘free press’. In 1979 Edward Herman wrote After the Cataclysm with Noam Chomsky in which they shredded Western […]
