See Note (1) Introduction In The Wealth of Nations, a book supposed to underpin modern free-market philosophies, Adam Smith thought that the separation of management from ownership would inevitably gave rise to negligence and corruption. The owners of Enron were the shareholders, represented by pension funds, banks and trust funds. The chief managers of Enron […]
[…] it within the State Department. If Kennedy’s support for the apertura produced such opposition from the State Department, how much more hostile were the CIA and the Pentagon? In his Wilderness of Mirrors (Harper Row, New York 1980) David Martin notes that ‘to Angleton, who viewed the Socialist Party as nothing more than a […]
[…] by David Cairns, an ‘official in the European Union department of the Foreign Office.’ A familiar ring? In November 1997 the JFK Assassination Records Review Board released Pentagon documents which, according to the Reuters’ report on this, show that ‘The Pentagon drew up plans to mount a bloody “terror campaign” in the United States…. […]
[…] source. The results are there to be seen in your daily newspaper: story after story attributed to no one in particular: ‘Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Pentagon official said’, ‘White House sources denied’. So the news gets fuzzier some would say it becomes more propagandistic as sources disappear. Ambitious and calculating […]
[…] these high-level cover-ups was nothing less than the CIA’s basic strategy for the containment of Communism in East and South-East Asia, which (as documents published with the Pentagon Papers have confirmed) relied heavily on the opium growing KMT troops of the Burma-Laos-Thailand border areas and their contacts with the pro-KMT secret societies in the […]
[…] administration. (2) Young asked Cook why the British government supports the US so slavishly. ‘Because of the Ministry of Defence’s fanatical determination to keep close to the Pentagon. They will never do anything that puts that relationship out of line. The truth is that it is the pivot of all military careers and a […]
[…] ‘He was very concerned about getting along with the administration…… and “playing along’ really meant to sustain the conceptions of the policy makers particularly at the pentagon and the Vice-President’s office that Saddam Hussein was a real and imminent danger. ‘To do that, you had to accept some of these alarming reports […]
[…] a natural order – or at least, should be made so. Hence, as we have also discussed, the efforts of Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney at the Pentagon to establish the pre-emptive principle as a part of the US strategic furniture. Despite mounting near-unilateral military efforts in Iraq and the Balkans, the doctrinal case […]
[…] was helping the USA in its war with the Soviets in Afghanistan, and (b) US arms corporations were making money selling weapons systems and planes to the Pentagon which were being passed on to the Pakistan military as part of the price of co-operation in ‘the war on terror’. In short: Pakistan acquired the […]
[…] Sir Michael is among a number of senior British commanders who are said to question Britain’s backing for a US invasion of Iraq, and are sceptical of Pentagon claims about Saddam Hussein’s links with the al-Qa’ida terror organisation and his stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction.’ (1) Even more off-message On 25 January 2004 […]
