[…] in the knowledge that involvement in or awareness of controversial military operations can be plausibly denied.’ Legislation has yet to appear, although the use of mercenaries in Iraq has, according to some commentators, concentrated ministerial minds, with proposals likely to follow after the next election. (9) Beyond our Ken Kenneth Tynan’s encounter with the […]
[…] for the U.S. Government on what is termed in the military and intelligence world Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS), sometimes called SQUAD. The system was deployed against Iraq. ‘According to statements made by captured and deserting Iraqi soldiers, however, the most devastating and demoralizing programming was the first known military use of the new, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] crude fraud it always looked like.(12) Reading the original stories you can almost hear the dialogue in some office in Washington: ‘Hey, our media bought it in Iraq, so let’s run it at them again.’ Litvinenko Two big pieces on the death in London of Alexander Litvinenko have appeared. In the first, Edward J. […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
