[PDF file]: […] to oust President Nasser in 1956. That decent traditional Tory, Anthony Eden, had covertly conspired with the French and the Israelis to launch an unprovoked attack on Egypt. The only reason this invasion did not descend into a bloody, protracted quagmire was that on this occasion the United States forced the aggressors to retreat. […]
[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* Stolen, not shared ‘MI5 joins Instagram to bust martini-drinking stereotypes’ was a headline from BBC News online in late April.1 The head of the Security Service, Ken McCallum,2 was quoted from a piece he had written for the Telegraph, wherein he’d said: ‘We must get […]
[PDF file]: […] UK to retain all its colonies ‘and such mandates as were needed for its political and military interests’ with ‘Germany possibly receiving compensation elsewhere’. (7) The Mediterranean, Egypt, French, Dutch and Belgian colonies were ‘open to discussion’. Mallet conveyed these to the UK where they were quickly rejected by Churchill and his cabinet on […]
[PDF file]: […] and the continued British inability to defeat small German and Italian forces. (In using the term ‘British’ we should recognize that most of the troops that defended Egypt were either Indian or Australian.) Eventually the Desert campaign did turn in the UK’s Bowman’s book includes an addendum that discusses the Bengal Famine, in which […]
[PDF file]: […] expansion into Africa, a view that Mosley and Yockey both shared. Yet by the mid-1950s Yockey began identifying with anti-colonial movements; he even spent time in Nasser’s Egypt. When the United See Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1879-1928 (New York: Penguin Press, 2014), and Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 (New York: Penguin Press, […]
[PDF file]: […] bottom of page 5. 16 elites refused to collaborate with London and there was resistance (as in China over the opium trade between the 1830s and 1850s, Egypt in 1882 and in West Africa and South Africa during the 1880s and 1890s), then the British would use military power. This is how the UK […]
[PDF file]: David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG Nick Must In his book Manufacturing Terrorism,1 T. J. Coles mentions that ex-MI5 officer David Shayler has recently claimed that Ramadan Abedi (the father of Manchester Arena suicide bomber, Salman Abedi) was the MI6 asset who had previous been identified solely with the cypher ‘Tunworth’. Shayler first mentioned Tunworth […]
[PDF file]: […] writes: ‘The British had, for several decades before 1917, been a preeminent colonial power in the Near East, demonstrated most vividly by their invasion and occupation of Egypt in 1882. From the 1890s onwards dramatic changes began to take place in the nature of imperialism. Whilst colonisation and colonialism would continue to exist, imperialism […]
[PDF file]: […] the British spooks’ role in that ghastly decade (if we’re not all under water by then). This is very largely a history of failure. Operations in Albania, Egypt and Syria (1958) were ‘obvious failures’ and – rather oddly, given how much attention he gives it – ‘covert action in the colonies amounted to little’. […]
[PDF file]: […] diplomatic belligerence and all. I had time to pause and reflect on what surrounds Israel. Our friends the Wahhabi? Or perhaps that old friend of the west, Egypt, with its lately installed dictator? Or the crumbling waywardness of countries previously treated as vassal oil reservoirs with little or no legitimate government – and, more […]
