Volume 10, Number 2, 1999 |
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ContentsEditorial - Too many truthsCal McCrystal - The sub-secret underworld of the D-Notice business Richard Keeble - A Balkan birthday for NATO |
Editorial - Too many truthsThe war in the Balkans has been a revelation. Amid all the confusion, the grim uneasiness, the sheer human horror and profound uncertainty about what we were doing and why and where do we go now – amid all this there has been some remarkable, even outstanding journalism in many sections of the British media. It is not the case, as some of the more frenetic of radical critics have claimed, that truth is again the first casualty. Not so. On the whole truth has not been savagely mauled... [Read full article]
Cal McCrystal - The sub-secret underworld of the D-Notice businessOn 13 April, The Guardian carried a two-column story headlined ”How Wilson hounded the colonel”. It concerned the then prime minister Harold Wilson and Colonel "Sammy" Lohan, then secretary of Whitehall’s D-Notice Committee, responsible for restraining the press from publishing security-sensitive material. According to state papers released by the Public Record Office, Lohan was a serious troublemaker who abused his position in the 1960s... [Read full article]
Richard Keeble - A Balkan birthday for NATOMajor, high profile wars are today primarily manufactured events. People are slaughtered; children and soldiers are traumatised; homes, hospitals, television stations, tanks are destroyed; thousands are left refugees. But the Gulf war of 1991 and the Balkans war of 1999 suggest that major conflicts today are conducted for largely non-strategic purposes... [Read full article]
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