[…] and remains, far more imperialistic than the West has generally been, and that it was this that inspired the Al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, rather than any resentment against American aggression towards Moslem countries. In other words, 9/11 would have happened even without those US bases in Saudi Arabia. Islam […]
[…] list of US and UK diplomats expelled from various countries for “spying activities” since 1980; and, in a second article, describes the power struggle between the CIA, Pentagon and State Department over the NSC and its new head, Frank Carlucci. Two other articles on American parapolitics are reprinted from American publications – on Vernon […]
[…] has become synonymous with ‘mass suicide’? An ‘After Action Report’ of the Joint Chiefs of Staff helps to establish the chronology of the myth. According to the Pentagon, which took responsibility for transporting the dead back to the United States, the National Military Command Center (NMCC) was first notified of a disaster in Guyana […]
[…] the Search and Recovery teams formed part of a Special Unit with the designation ‘SCRSWA’. This unit has not been identified, despite a telephone call to the Pentagon library. According to sources, there was a British involvement. This has yet to be identified and confirmed, but it is thought possible the bacteriological weapon may […]
[…] in a second part to the article. Fray said several speakers at a Fijian rally in Sydney had spoken of “strong circumstantial evidence of either CIA or Pentagon involvement”. Evidence for these allegations included a build-up of U.S. naval activity in the South Pacific. On May 16, Papua New Guinea’s “Weekend Nuis” carried two […]
[…] example, or Colombia today; or Central America in the 1980s.) This happens because the American system as constructed since 1945 needs enemies. It needs ‘threats’. If the Pentagon and the corporations and politicians feeding off it are to continue to receive 50% of federal tax dollars there needs to be a plausible threat or […]
[PDF file]: […] examples on the Net, 31 ‘Case Study 2’ (see note 16) periods of drought or storm’,3 2 about which the Vietnamese knew all too well. After the Pentagon Papers leak, Seymour Hersh revealed in the New York Times that America had been manipulating the weather in Vietnam in order to cause floods. The project […]
[PDF file]: […] to those of the Middle East, further emphasizing the continent’s strategic importance.’1 Unlike its mega-embassies and military bases in Iraq, Kosovo, and other strategically important locations, the Pentagon has smaller, mobile bases across Africa. The Congressional report tells us that these ‘facilities as “lily pads”, or Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs), and access to locations […]
[PDF file]: […] – the ‘ideological paradigm for American media and political culture’ – is a case in point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, 141 Summer 2010 disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every […]
[PDF file]: […] with Iran, Cameron appointed right-winger Liam Fox as Minister of Defence precisely to pursue exactly the same kind of privatisation agenda pursued by Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon from 2000. (Klein, 2007, pp. 293-305) While Rumsfeld was saved from the Joint Chiefs of Staff by 9/11, it was this privatising zeal that led Liam […]
