Margaret O'Connor
Margaret O’Connor grew up in Eastern Maar Country (the Western District of Victoria) and has been based in Ngunnawal Country (Canberra) for the last 26 years. She is a semi-professional musician and is passionate about history and sustainable living. She is a coordinator and administrator of a Canberra sustainability group with almost 6,000 members, and writes about her many interests for Pearls & Irritations, Crikey, Honest History and No Fibs.
Articles by Margaret O'Connor (3 total)
Coups, covert ops, dirty tricks: how the US abused its power from 1947
“Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, Carmel Offie, and Frank Wisner were the grand masters. If you were in a room with them you were in a room full of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell.”
As time goes by: eighty years since the premiere of Casablanca
It was 1942. Across the Atlantic, vast, troubled swathes of Europe were occupied by the Wehrmacht. Millions of its civilians were displaced; millions more would pack up their belongings and flee as World War II continued to unfold.
The Mountbattens: the British Establishment at its most privileged and eccentric.
“There are four kinds of officers: hard-working and intelligent, lazy and intelligent, lazy and stupid and hard-working and stupid. The first are fit for top staff appointments, the second are fit for the highest commands, the third can be tolerated, but the fourth type could prove dangerous and should be instantly removed.”