[PDF file]: […] fact go to jail, but with sentences that were either token, or soon reversed in higher courts. On a higher level, the fall of the Shah in Iran and of Marcos in the Philippines have been followed by new revelations of those dictators’ links to private as well as public forces in the United […]
[PDF file]: Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud London: Macmillan, 2023, 317 pages Colin Challen This is the first book about Pegasus, the cyber surveillance software developed by the Israeli company the NSO Group. It lays out the threat posed by the world’s leading cyber surveillance outfit. It is […]
[PDF file]: […] to report the coverage. ‘Our one access to daylight was the US media and its knock on to the Filipino media…It was a huge, huge stitch-up.’1 6 Iran 2009 H arding’s description of the events of Manila 1986 may shed some light on the still under-explored Iranian elections of 2009 and on the uncertainty […]
[PDF file]: […] facts – were not divulged to the jury at the trial of three Scarland senior execs, who were acquitted of any wrongdoing. The (potential) coming war with Iran: where the money is going Much has already been said in the news about the potential for a wide–ranging war with Iran following the assassination by […]
[PDF file]: […] word ‘allegedly’ from this quotation; but otherwise Kilcullen’s remarks are not what one expects from a counterinsurgency expert working for the United States. Similarly, his discussion of Iran notes that ‘those of us who served in Iraq always saw Iranian actions as aggressive – understandably, I guess, since they were doing their best to […]
[PDF file]: […] of the organisation, with four US Senators and the Israeli Ambassador present, Hagee called for the United States to join with Israel in a pre-emptive attack on Iran. He told his audience that this would ‘fulfil God’s plan for both Israel and the West . . . a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, […]
[PDF file]: […] him that the US bases in that country were vital for American interests in the region and not some sort of rip-off. And even though Mattis regarded Iran as a threat to the US position in the Middle East, nevertheless he still thought that the nuclear deal with Iran had been an American success, […]
Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]
[PDF file]: […] a willingness to continue providing them with the means to secure their position against radical challenge, whether that comes from within or from external powers such as Iran. Britain’s commitment has been driven by concern to guarantee a steady and predictable flow of oil to the West at prices which may vary but which […]
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]
