[…] The wave of unrest that had engulfed President Lyndon Johnson was confronted by Richard Nixon when he won the presidential election in 1968. Leonard quotes Nixon’s domestic security adviser, John Ehrlichman, on how they determined to deal with the challenges they faced. The administration identified two domestic enemies: The Guardian 1 September 2022 at […]
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[…] 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]: […] Craig Murray recently: But in addition to legislative and state attacks on protest, the neoliberal state is also ramping up its more subtle elements of control. The security services are continually being expanded. The media is not only increasingly concentrated, it is increasingly under direct security-service influence — the Integrity Initiative, the Paul Mason […]
[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]: […] his host, Evgeny, by giving him a peerage – making According to some people, there were serious concerns about Johnson’s relationship with the Lebedevs within the British security establishment. See Otto English, ‘Spooking the Spooks: Media Complicity and Security Concerns over Lebedev and Johnson’, Byline Times 25 October 2019 at or . 13 him, […]
[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]: […] decade of the 21st century. In part this was motivated by the notion of ‘credibility’ For example, on July 27, 2001, Rumsfeld sent a memo to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice titled ‘Iraq.’ The memo stated that ‘A major success in Iraq would enhance U.S. credibility and influence throughout the region. If Saddam’s regime […]
[PDF file]: […] any information which falls within scope of your request.’ However . . . exemption 23(5) can only be used when the information relates to fourteen specified intelligence, security and national policing bodies5 – only five of which were in existence at the time of Hilda Murrell’s murder: those five being MI5, MI6, GCHQ, the […]
[PDF file]: […] The wave of unrest that had engulfed President Lyndon Johnson was confronted by Richard Nixon when he won the presidential election in 1968. Leonard quotes Nixon’s domestic security adviser, John Ehrlichman, on how they determined to deal with the challenges they faced. The administration identified two domestic enemies: The Guardian 1 September 2022 at […]
