[PDF file]: […] ‘these groups’ non-transparent and unaccountable modus operandi and the intermittent scandals which occasionally illuminate their activities, as well the close informal working relationships cultivated by the Israeli embassy’. (p. 13)6 Aked styles the Zionist movement as a ‘social movement from above’ and contrasts its ‘astroturfing’ character with the Palestinian liberation struggle, BDS campaign and […]
[…] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]
[…] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]
[…] ‘these groups’ non-transparent and unaccountable modus operandi and the intermittent scandals which occasionally illuminate their activities, as well the close informal working relationships cultivated by the Israeli embassy’. (p. 13)6 Aked styles the Zionist movement as a ‘social movement from above’ and contrasts its ‘astroturfing’ character with the Palestinian liberation struggle, BDS campaign and […]
[…] ‘these groups’ non-transparent and unaccountable modus operandi and the intermittent scandals which occasionally illuminate their activities, as well the close informal working relationships cultivated by the Israeli embassy’. (p. 13)6 Aked styles the Zionist movement as a ‘social movement from above’ and contrasts its ‘astroturfing’ character with the Palestinian liberation struggle, BDS campaign and […]
[PDF file]: […] by Prime Minister May, his assumption was that it was for his Middle East expertise. As far as the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) and the Israeli Embassy were concerned, however, his support for a Palestinian state made him completely unacceptable and it soon became clear that he was to have no involvement with […]
[PDF file]: […] Brown as an economically illiterate careerist who became leader of the Labour Party by sounding like a leftie to its members while cuddling up to the American embassy and international bankers.5 1 As for his economic record as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Henderson clearly lays out some of the dismal details.5 2 49 […]
[PDF file]: […] had worked for Newsweek in Asia, but veterans on that paper had no recollection of him. In 1975 Gately was serving as political officer in the American embassy in Bangkok. On the use of American journals/newspapers as cover for CIA see Carl Bernstein, CIA and the Media in Rolling Stone, October 20 1977 8 […]
[PDF file]: […] On September 21, 1976, a sophisticated bomb killed former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and an American friend while they were driving to work down Washington’s fashionable Embassy Row. Two weeks later, on October 6, a Cuban commercial airliner exploded in mid-air over the Caribbean, killing all 73 passengers on board. Confessions in the […]
[…] invaluable commentator on the machinations of the state. On 28 May he wrote a very important piece, ‘The UK Rebukes the UN and Bows to the Israeli Embassy over “Terrorism” Arrests of Journalists’.23 It included this: There is a stunning contrast between the access given by the UK to the Israeli Embassy to influence […]
