Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

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[PDF file]: […] Trust, which had Victor Lownes, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy gopher, in tow as ‘tantric adviser’. Beresford later believed that Hollingshead was responsible for his being placed under government surveillance; by the time he did, though, Hollingshead had moved back to Leary. Leary was worried that he hadn’t heard from Mary Pinchot Meyer, with whom, apparently, […]

The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

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[PDF file]: […] and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. From surveillance and the national security state to the ‘war on terror’ and control orders and rendition, Ewing’s solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Tory Party’s biggest financial donors. See . 46 and imprison him.47 An article on The Intercept 4 8 listed UK attendees: ‘Robert Hannigan, current chief of British surveillance agency GCHQ; Sir David Omand, former GCHQ chief; Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former head of the British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee; Lord Butler of Brockwell, member […]

The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

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[PDF file]: […] and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. From surveillance and the national security state to the ‘war on terror’ and control orders and rendition, Ewing’s solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but […]

Books on New Labour

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[PDF file]: […] The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Heather Brooke London: William Heinemann, 2010, £12.99 Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown Christopher Harvie London/New York: Verso, 2010, […]

That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by John Medhurst

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[PDF file]: […] account of this in 1974-6: the rise of the anti-subversion lobby (he mentions Brian Crozier’s ISC but not IRD); the so-called private armies, GB75 and Unison; the surveillance and bugging of many on the left; the smear campaigns 1 The author does not mention the Soviet money. MI5 had been tracking the Soviet funds […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

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[PDF file]: […] pushing his Playing to the Edge. He expected that he was going to have to spend a lot of his time defending ‘Bush-era tactics that included electronic surveillance, metadata collection, renditions, detentions, interrogations, and targeted killings’, trying to convince his audience that after 9/11 ‘we had to play to the legal and ethical edge’. […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

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[PDF file]: […] protests of the 1960s and resolved ‘never again’. 9/11 was the green light for the deep state to move into action: warrantless arrests, no fly lists, mass surveillance, data mining, and anti-terrorist ‘fusion centres’ of military and civil organisations. If deep politics is ‘all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

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[PDF file]: […] the preamble, while the rest was drafted by experts to privilege the permanent members of the Security Council. 3 See, inter alia, Frank Donner, The Age of Surveillance (1980), Ward Churchill & Jim Vanderwall, The Cointelpro Papers (1990). 4 Tony Benn (1925-2014) ‘After the war people said, “If you can plan for war, why […]

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