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
[…] that we were creating a monster”, Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on “Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia”.’ ‘…….Harrison said: “The CIA made a historic mistake in encouraging Islamic groups from all over the world to come to Afghanistan. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Scott, Dallas Conspiracy ch 8 p17) And in one of those coincidences which mark the Kennedy assassination, it seems an employee of Collins Radio, who had a security clearance, was parked in the car park where Oswald allegedly dropped a jacket shortly after the murder of Officer Tippit. (This is in a volume of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Armstrong, former Cabinet Secretary; and William Waldegrave, Conservative MP, former junior Foreign Office Minister. Unclassified Unclassified rather grandly calls itself the ‘Newspaper of the Association of National Security Alumni’ and is actually a magazine/newsletter run by and for the radical end (sic) of the former U.S. foreign service and spook world. It is edited […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Panorama ‘investigation’ of the Wright/Wallace/MI5 plots story. 21 September 1987. Wallace receives report of polygraph (lie detector) report done on him and his central allegations by Polygraph Security Services, the company which were consultants to the government on the proposed use of polygraphs at GCHQ. Report states: “I am pleased to confirm his responses […]
[…] of people and someone in, or close to, the plan realised that the perfect conditions were going to be created for a real hit to take place. Security would be lax: the existence of the phoney set-up would ensure that no-one would want to examine the mess: and, most of all, there is Oswald, […]
[…] be developed and adopted. The ‘empirical’ chapters which follow deal, respectively, with single market policy, competition policy, EMU, the CAP, social policy, the ‘third pillar’ (aka ‘freedom, security and justice’) and external policies. Of the most significant policy areas, then, only the environment is missing, a curious omission when you consider its increasing importance […]
