[PDF file]: Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran Dr. Roger Cottrell Preamble In November 2011 claims emerged of an unlikely assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US.1 According to the FBI, an alcoholic car salesman in Texas, Manssor Arbasier, with a spurious family connection to a member of Iran’s Revolutionary […]
[PDF file]: Murdoch, Rothschild and the nuclear lobby 1 Matthew Zarb-Cousin In his 1956 book The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills illustrated the way in which the elite work together, are interconnected – both socially and in business – and therefore take each other into account when they make decisions….. Rupert Murdoch and the financial sector […]
[PDF file]: […] “MI5”. Pincher says it was a group of MI5 and ex MI5 personnel. David Leigh (Observer 15 September 1985) has hinted that among those involved was Peter Wright, one of the leading figures in the campaign against former MI5 head Roger Hollis. Wright is obviously one of Pincher’s major sources for his last two […]
[PDF file]: […] Details of the tax agency’s remarkable leniency emerged in 1964 hearings held by a subcommittee of the House Select Committee on Small Business, chaired by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, to study the impact on the U.S. economy of tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts. The subcommittee’s study director, H. A. Olsher, struggled to deal with […]
[…] on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, […]
[PDF file]: […] days in the discussions of the new global elite, the oligarchs, or the 1%, is William Domhoff, the American sociologist who, following in the footsteps of C. Wright Mills, was examining their power forty years ago in books such as the 1971 The Higher Circles. Mr Domhoff, I am happy to report, is still […]
[PDF file]: […] is missing. 3. As are the destabilisation operations against the Labour and Liberal parties and the ‘wet’ Conservatives in the mid 1970s. He refers once to Peter Wright, only to dismiss his claims. The Atlantic semantic29 I am on the e-mail list of the Atlantic Council30 and received notification of a meeting of theirs, […]
[PDF file]: Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Friends of ‘the Friends’ in the North W atching the coverage of the Scottish referendum campaign from south of the Border made me wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and […]
[…] our responses to your emails. The Illuminati. 6 Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister Thatcher wrote in October 1986: ‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in […]
[PDF file]: […] US and UK. He remains a believer in Cold War shibboleths such as that the KGB were running the unions in the 1970s. He is what C. Wright Mills would have termed a NATO intellectual, who also wrote for Encounter. Below I offer a specific focus on Brian Crozier’s ‘Shield’ organisation, which included Eden […]
