NB This essay has been compressed a good deal. The longer version is at < http://www.pertier.com/demos.html > Ostensibly a left-leaning ‘think tank’, Demos’ initial Advisory Board gathered mostly those who wished to extend ‘Thatcherism’ into the ‘New Labour’ project. The Advisory Board Martin JacquesHis time in the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has been […]
Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more
[…] Foreign Office minister, and a colleague of his wife, in order to smooth a path through any objections to the deal arising from US sanctions policy towards Iran. Mills may be innocent of any specific wrongdoing in all of these cases, but the impression left is that of a seriously flawed judgement combined with […]
[…] like Rhyolite have their limitations, principally those of payload. The NSA were also monitoring the TELINT associated with missile launches from Krasnoyarsk from their station in northern Iran, only a couple of hundred miles away (Bamford p198). This proved so effective that when the NRO pushed for ARGOS (Advanced Rhyolite), US Secretary of Defence […]
[…] (4) Still in its infancy, is the emerging spin of US/UK failed diplomacy in the area, the latter running parallel to aggressive American and Russian confrontation c/o Iran and Kurdistan. See how the phrase ‘acknowledgement of grievances’ rises to the top of otherwise pacific language. It is an indication of overdue pragmatic acceptance of […]
The British American Project and the war on Iraq The war on Iraq proved a busy time for members of the British American Project (Lobster 33 et seq) on this side of the pond. To cover the American countdown to war, long-time UK advisory board member Jim Naughtie returned to the New York home of […]
[…] Teacher Notes Im Schatten des Rechts, Gossner and Herzog, Kiepenheur and Witsch, 1984. Also see their earlier work Der Apparat, Kiepenheur and Witsch, 1982, updated 1984.CIA im Iran (including Teheran Embassy documents), CIA im Westeuropa (including US Army procedures in event of war in Europe), and CIA im Mittelamerika – all by Gunter Neuberger […]
[…] well as maintaining an intimate relationship with Britain’s own security services.(3) The CIA’s role in the overthrow of governments is well-known, beginning with the 1953 coup in Iran and the 1954 coup in Guatemala. Since then the organisation has been involved in coups in South Vietnam in 1963, in Brazil in 1964, in Indonesia […]
Peter Dale Scott University of California Press (paperback edition, with new preface) 1996, $14.95 ‘The key to understanding Deep Politics is the distinction I propose between traditional conspiracy theory, looking at conscious secret collaborations towards shared ends, and deep political analysis, defined as “the study of all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or […]
[…] enterprise. ‘If you take the main Asian markets – Japan, India, China – and their derivatives – Indonesia, Bangla- desh, Pakistan, the Arab countries, East Africa, Egypt, Iran, Morocco – you have 80% of the world’s population.'(18) Much of this audience is aged under 30 and the marketing world believes we have made most […]
