[…] this Near-East region in some detail if we are to gain an understanding of its objectives in the present impasse in which it has enmeshed itself in Iraq; and there can hardly be a more effective means of doing this than by examining relevant reports/papers of some of its administrations departments. Of necessity, these […]
[…] communications – phones, telex, e-mail – for key-words and filter out the messages in which they appear. Want to trigger Echelon? Make a long-distance call and say Iraq, nukes, plutonium. That should ensure that the content of your call is printed out somewhere in the Echelon network. The book comes with an introduction from […]
[…] Stephen Byers, then an ardently Blairite education minister, for advice about who The Daily Express should hire.’ He has an illuminating chapter on media complicity in the Iraq war before reflecting on the growing divide between the hinterland-free ‘Political Class’ and the taxpayers who pay their mortgages. This is not just the gap between […]
[…] to write this: ‘as long as support to autocratic Arab regimes and Israel continues unabated, Washington’s rhetoric about freedom and democracy carries little conviction. (p. 61)……… As Iraq testifies, there is probably not enough soft power around to compensate for the friction of war.’ (p. 64) Which about as tough as these essays get. […]
[…] Middle East and European affairs), Russell believes that the CIA’s intelligence was more accurate than that of the defence establishment. Richard L. Russell, ‘CIA’s strategic intelligence in Iraq’, Political Science Quarterly, 117 (2) (Summer 2002), pp 191-207. Also available in full at < http:// www.psqonline. org/ >. Deep Throat Uncovered? At a conference held […]
[…] Notice, by the way, how even critics of the White House/Downing Street information campaign rarely use the term conspiracy theory in the context of the Al Qaeda/ Iraq fantasy.) Nor are the mainstream media entirely immune from the all-explaining global conspiracy that they rightly denounce when cooked up by non-professionals or political enemies. The […]
[…] missing. It’s not that the author is afraid of making political comments. He is properly scathing about the events surrounding the Australian support for the invasion of Iraq and the persecution of the lone Australian intelligence analyst willing to say that the emperor had no clothes on; and he writes this for example on […]
[…] are, in fact, distinct and competitive ways of seeing and operating. They overlap in some places (in the war against terrorism) and they conflict in others (over Iraq). Conflicts continue and are inevitable. I explore a theory of why this is below. A new consensus Three conservative models are starting to converge, with, as […]
[…] were involved in, or claim to have been involved in, the various intelligence scandals of the Reagan/Bush years: October Surprise, Inslaw, BCCI, the arming of Iran and Iraq. And so Stich begins to learn about Mossad operations; factions within the CIA; assassination squads; drug dealing on a massive scale; corrupt politicians, judges etc. etc. […]
[…] the Baath party. Today, the Arabs are no longer afraid…… The old Sharon policy into which the American neo-conservatives so fatally bought before the 2003 invasion of Iraq – of beating the Arabs till they come to heel or until they “behave” or until an Arab leader can be found “to control his own […]
