[PDF file]: […] with similar capitalised text in poor English. The one sent to Brokaw read as follows: 09-11-01 THIS IS NEXT TAKE PENACILIN NEXT DEATH TO AMERICA DEATH TO ISRAEL ALLAH IS GREAT But it quickly became clear that the sophistication of the identified Ames strain of anthrax in the letters meant it could only come […]
[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]: […] on one hand, the ally of America as its biggest customer for weapons and backer of the dollar, and on the other its enemy as America sustains Israel. Add to which the Saudi state’s use of its oil wealth to export its version of Islam world-wide, the CIA’s use of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan, […]
[PDF file]: Scott Newton Nairn and Marx Tom Nairn, who died in January, was one of the most powerful and perceptive political theorists of our time. He was a Marxian whose writings often appeared in journals such as New Left Review and The London Review of Books, as well as in books such as The Break-Up of […]
[PDF file]: […] during the Corbyn years. There are some who merely changed tack: Sir Trevor Chinn, a leading light in the Jewish community and backer of Labour Friends of Israel, for example. In 2020 he was a big funder of Starmer’s leadership campaign, as well as backing other party luminaries like Tom Watson, who relentlessly sought […]
[PDF file]: […] apparently learning their light-touch regulation from Larry Summers, one of those in the Clinton years keenest to abolish Glass-Steagall. He pays less 192 Summer 2010 attention to Israel among the offshore lobbies, but explains well the general vulnerability of these largely postmanufacturing islands to pressures and influences – some of them extending beyond his […]
[PDF file]: […] Godson, a former member of the Reagan administration, whose brother and father have also been key figures in US-UK relations. He also steers clear of the pro- Israel lobby which, to this reviewer, is an important addition to the Establishment of the 1950s described by Fairlie, Thomas et al. To write of Neil (now […]
[PDF file]: […] left. Bower also expends a great deal of his narrative (as have the mainstream media) on a detailed poking about in Corbyn’s support for Palestine, antipathy towards Israel (as presently constituted, at any rate) and alleged difficulties with anti-semitism. This may be what sells books but, by default, it means that wider issues are […]
[PDF file]: […] restore Euro-American control over China’s economy.20 Whether relative sanity in the US or the extremism of the Lobby itself (in its day almost as powerful as the Israel lobby today) prevented outright war is a matter of dispute. The psychological impact of ‘losing China’ certainly enhanced the status of the emergent national security state […]
[PDF file]: […] them. As far as US foreign policy went, the overriding concern of the evangelicals, since the downfall of the Soviet Union, has been that the interests of Israel had to be paramount. Trump managed to convince the leaders of the Christian Right that he could and would deliver on this agenda. The adoption of […]
