The Israel Lobby John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt London: Allen Lane, 2007, £25 This account of the relationship between the ‘Israel lobby’ in the US, the US state and Israel should be required reading for anyone with an interest – personal, professional or political – in the troubled affairs of the Middle East. … Read more
[…] throughout the country, and I can only assume that it was believed. After all, one would think that the former Director of Naval Intelligence and the National Security Agency would know with some precision where he was when this country was undergoing its greatest political crisis of this century. Indeed, to think otherwise is […]
[…] of, I believe, by the Katz and Norton-Tayor article. I never met Rusbridger but enjoyed his letters and shared his lack of regard for the intelligence and security services. His disparaging critics on the right, however, were almost certainly correct in claiming that he had few sources within the spook community. His The Intelligence […]
[…] about the direction Lobster has taken. When Lobster began in 1983 there seemed every point in collecting and publishing every available scrap of information on the British security and intelligence services: we had Reagan and Thatcher, a resurgent British imperialism on the coat-tails of America, and a repressive, authoritarian regime at home. Publicising what […]
[…] access to a wider, civilian market. Finally, there is no British arms export policy: decisions in this field are subordinated to considerations of commercial interest and national security, as well as to obligations arising from membership of international organizations such as COCOM. In criticism it has to be said that some part of this […]
[…] controversies over the Iraq war reflected the disquiet many in the British state – elements within the Treasury, the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office and the security services – felt but were unable to articulate within the tight regime Blair had around him in his war planning with Bush. An elite divided The […]
[…] the obvious question: why didn’t McCord do as he was told and bug Larry O’Brien? To which I’d reply: as the former director of physical and technical security for the CIA, McCord knew that O’Brien had recently been Howard Hughes’s Washington liaison – and, in that capacity, O’Brien had helped negotiate arrangements between Hughes […]
[…] up. As did most people, I think. But ‘West’ is now taken seriously by some people: he is a professor in the expanding field of intelligence and security studies; and, let it be noted, he is not Professor Rupert Allason but Professor Nigel West. (Is he the first academic to be employed under a […]
[…] There is no way Leigh has any sympathies with fascism, national socialism, racialism or anti-semitism. (Incidentally, his close friend and co-founder of the Coalition For Peace Through Security, Julian Lewis, is Jewish.)” From Ace R. Hayes, Oregon, USA. “Re: Shooting the Pope. I have fired thousands of rounds through all sorts of hand guns. […]
[…] he doesn’t have the evidence. The temptation to make dramatic statements shows elsewhere. On p.262, of the Kennedy assassination, he writes: ‘Meanwhile, General Walker, the far-right American Security Council (including General Lansdale and Air America Chairman Admiral Felix Stump) and Texas ultras started plotting their coup d’etat in Dallas.’ He presents no evidence of […]
