Spinwatch pamphlets by Tom Griffin
Glasgow: Spinwatch.(Accessed:), Aug 1, 2011
Spinwatch is a project of Public interest investigations and independent non-profit making organi... more Spinwatch is a project of Public interest investigations and independent non-profit making organisation which monitors the role of lobbying, public relations and spin in contemporary society. Founded in 2004, Spinwatch promotes greater understanding of the role of PR, propaganda and lobbying through its website (www. spinwatch. org) and through its investigative Wiki site Powerbase (www. powerbase. info) which monitors power networks. Spinwatch is a founder member of the alliance for lobbying Transparency uK.
Popular journals and comment by Tom Griffin
openDemocracy, 26 May 2011
openDemocracy, 7 November 2016.
openDemocracy, 25 October 2011.
It has been a strange month in the politics of Northern Ireland, and last week was no exception I... more It has been a strange month in the politics of Northern Ireland, and last week was no exception It has been a strange month in the politics of Northern Ireland, and last week was no exception. On Monday, there was optimism that a breakthrough on the devolution of policing and justice was in the offing. A few days later, talks had collapsed amid recriminations between Gerry Adams and Peter Robinson. UUP leader Reg Empey was predicting an assembly election would be called by the end of the coming week, a good indicator of the likely timeframe before a definitive breakthrough or breakdown.
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Spinwatch, February 2015.
opnDemocracy Uk, 16 December 2009. The exposure of an agent raises questions about the policing o... more opnDemocracy Uk, 16 December 2009. The exposure of an agent raises questions about the policing of climate protests.
Spinwatch, 27 February 2017.
Spinwatch, 23 March 2016. An analysis showing that Observer B, the source of key evidence present... more Spinwatch, 23 March 2016. An analysis showing that Observer B, the source of key evidence presented by MI5 to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, was Kincora whistleblower James Miller, and arguing that the same types of evidence presented to the Saville Tribunal should be made available to abuse inquiries.
There is growing momentum for the the Child Sex Abuse Inquiry to look at Northern Ireland's Kinco... more There is growing momentum for the the Child Sex Abuse Inquiry to look at Northern Ireland's Kincora scandal, but a key piece of evidence linking Kincora and the Paedophile Information Exchange suggests that access to intelligence documents will be crucial to any new investigation. (Spinwatch, August 2014).
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Spinwatch pamphlets by Tom Griffin
Popular journals and comment by Tom Griffin
The origins of neoconservative engagement with intelligence theory are traced to a tradition of labour anti-communism that emerged in the early 20th century and subsequently provided the Central Intelligence Agency with key allies in the state-private networks of the Cold War era. Reflecting on the break-up of Cold War liberalism and the challenge to state-private networks in the 1970s, the book maps the neoconservative response that influenced developments in United States intelligence policy, counterintelligence and covert action. With the labour roots of neoconservatism widely acknowledged but rarely systematically pursued, this new approach deploys the neoconservative literature of intelligence as evidence of a tradition rooted in the labour anti-communist self-image as allies rather than agents of the American state.
This book will be of great interest to all students of intelligence studies, Cold War history, United States foreign policy and international relations.