[PDF file]: […] Praetorian guard of ambitious student politicians and assorted money-grubbing lobbyists. A bit more complicated than this? Well chuck in devotion to the City, US foreign policy and Israel and there’s little more to say.’ Which is essentially true; but I like the details. I haven’t read the Blair/Mandelson/Jonathan Powell versions of NuLab yet but […]
[…] Party to adopt the IHRA working definition of anti-semitism ‘in full together with all its examples’.16 Those ‘examples’17 are designed to make much of the criticism of Israel anti-semitism by definition. For the history of the long march of this new definition of anti-semitism through the world’s institutions, see the essay by Alison Weir.18 […]
[PDF file]: […] the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big 148 Winter 2010 business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues.’ A […]
[PDF file]: […] FARC, and the KLA a group supplying full service like BCCI before them Who else could wire something together CIA, Colombian revolutionaries, Kosovo to Saudi Arabia China Israel and the U.S.? -gathered near Nice in southern France to arrange in the villa of Khashoggi the richest man in the world Beaty and Gwynne 347 […]
[PDF file]: […] that the actual response to the attack, the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, was always a side-show. 9/11 provided an opportunity for the US, in alliance with Israel and Saudi Arabia, to attempt to establish complete domination over the Middle East. First Iraq would be dealt with to be followed by Syria and Iran, […]
[PDF file]: […] money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting my experience aside, I find Mattinson’s reasoning – ‘how New Labour stopped listening to the […]
[PDF file]: […] the intent to sabotage computer programs. Perhaps the most famous example of this activity went by the name of Stuxnet, which was developed by the US and Israel to damage Iran’s nuclear program in 2010. In 2022 we are told that Russia has and continues to wage an AM war on Ukraine. On both […]
[PDF file]: […] William Blum put this as succinctly as I could in a piece of his, ‘Another Peace Scare’: ‘We have to keep this in mind – America, like Israel, cherishes its enemies. Without enemies, the United States appears to be a nation without moral purpose and direction. The various managers of the National Security State […]
[PDF file]: […] Labour Party leader and prime minister without the inconvenience of a contest for either 17 The easy choice was to go with the US on Iraq and Israel – particularly if you want a subsequent life on the US lecture circuit. 18 Between 2001 and 2005 Blair considered and rejected setting up a separate […]
[PDF file]: […] surviving members, added nearly 200,000 new ones and cleared the party’s debts in the process. But his weak leadership proved no match for his PLP critics, the Israel lobby and their allied establishment forces, all backed by a venomous media. Payne records the resultant doorstep hostility to Corbyn in the ‘red wall’ but doesn’t […]
