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5 Questions for Eveline Lubbers

the Business of Intelligence The exposure, in 2010, of British NPIOU officer Mark Kennedy as an undercover agent in the environmental activist movement offered insight into how governments monitor political activism. But is intelligence gathering targeting activist groups limited to the state? Eveline Lubbers is an author and research fellow at the University of Bath.

5 Questions for William Cooke

Could the “witches” of Salem have been guilty? From 1692 to 1693, Salem, Massachusetts held a spectacular series of trials that ended with the hanging of 19 convicted witches. A twentieth person was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea before the Court of Oyer and Terminer. We’ve come to assume all of

5 Questions for Richard Cottrell

Operation Gladio: Past, Present and Future On a sunny summer morning in 1980 a suitcase packed with TNT suddenly and unexpectedly exploded in the waiting room of the central rail station in Bologna, Italy. By the time the smoke cleared, 85 people were dead and hundreds more wounded. It was the worst man-made disaster in

What This Country Needs (Guest Post)

The following guest post comes to us from John Kimberling and is excerpted from his book “What This Country Needs: A New Political Party (Revised Edition Election 2012)” (Polimedia Publishing, $4.95).   “What this country needs is a good five cent cigar,” said former U.S. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. No one has ever been

5 Questions for Gerrard Williams

Hitler and the Evacuation to Argentina What if the individual most responsible, perhaps, for the current world order did not die in a Berlin bunker in 1945 as popular history tells us but, instead, escaped to Argentina as the titular head of an internationalized Nazi Party-in-exile? Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams’ new book, Grey Wolf: