[PDF file]: […] the journal Partisan Review: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald and Irving Howe. As Rodden makes clear, none of these men were any sort of threat to US national security and yet the FBI put considerable effort into keeping them under surveillance. Lionel Trilling had an active file from the late 1930s through to the mid-1960s. […]
[PDF file]: […] discussions that reveal only fragments of relevant information’. At the same time, he has shown no ‘willingness to learn about policy’, not even with regard to national security. (p. 139) The greatest influence on his thinking is not official briefings, but ‘Fox News and Sean Hannity’. As they put it: ‘Fox’s fierce ideological angle, […]
[…] exercise the three Tube stations he imagined being bombed were those actually being bombed. Coles reports this and the conclusion of the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee that it was just a striking coincidence. It certainly was. How do we know about the Power exercise? Because Power phoned into Radio 5 Live […]
[PDF file]: […] 1941. A careful scrutiny of the material published, both here and abroad, suggests it is entirely possible that many prominent figures – in the military, royalty, the security services and Parliament, where Churchill lacked a majority – wanted out of the war by this point, via a compromise peace. However, as we know, rather […]
[PDF file]: […] exercise the three Tube stations he imagined being bombed were those actually being bombed. Coles reports this and the conclusion of the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee that it was just a striking coincidence. It certainly was. How do we know about the Power exercise? Because Power phoned into Radio 5 Live […]
[PDF file]: […] of manifest destiny sought to resolve this contradiction by stipulating that domestic conquest was not imperial. Control of the Western hemisphere has always been defined as national security, not of asserting US domination. Likewise, it is impossible to understand the actions of the US government in Asia since 1910 without acknowledging that the US […]
[…] Lobster 61 arrest of Ratco Mladic. * IPRD ‘The Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD) is an independent, non-profit, transdisciplinary research organisation promoting equality, sustainability and security. Based in London and founded in April 2001, the IPRD operates as a voluntary collective and global network of scholars, scientists and researchers.’ Thus the IPRD’s […]
[PDF file]: […] in fact. And now we have the deep state (and deep events). The term ‘deep state’ comes from the politics of Turkey and means centrally the intelligence/ security services and the military’: sectors of the state which in most countries are barely regulated by the formal democratic process which funds them.1 We might say […]
[PDF file]: […] of Washington.’ (p. 241) ‘Reagan and Gorbachav ended the Cold War and removed the threat of nuclear Armageddon. Now the neocons, the US budget-dependent (taxpayerdependent) US military/ security complex, and the US politicians dependent on campaign funds from the military/security complex have resurrected the nuclear threat’. (p. 231) ‘Where does Obama find morons like […]
[PDF file]: […] the armed forces superior to the civil power, given that it prevented Chilean presidents from appointing, promoting or dismissing senior military officers. It also established a National Security Council, whose brief extended to examination and evaluation of any development it thought likely to challenge ‘the bases of the institutional order or . . . […]
