[…] US allies in the region)? They are the last people anyone from the US government would seek to implicate. If you wanted a pretext to attack Iraq, Iran, Libya or Syria, the false flag would be accompanied by links to one (or several) of those countries, not Saudi Arabia.25 This scenario is absurd. As, […]
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]: […] of the Wall Street Overworld’ ‘The Deep State and Funds for CIA Covert Operations’ ‘Lockheed Payoffs and CIA Clients: the Netherlands, Japan, Italy, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia’ ‘Iran in 1953: How an Oil Cartel Operation Became a Job for the CIA’ ‘The CIA, Booz Allen Hamilton, and the Wall Street Overworld’ ‘The CIA, Miles […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 Kathryn S. Olmsted Oxford University Press, 2009, £12.99, p/b Robin Ramsay If I was going to be generous I would say ‘Close but no cigar’ to professor Olmsted’s account. She has at any rate identified one of the central issues, expressed in her final paragraph: […]
[PDF file]: […] to overcome the outrage of the international community. Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz had the answer: go after the so-called state sponsors of terrorism, namely Iraq, Syria, and Iran. A cabal headed by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Doug Feith, and Gingrich formulated a strategy to crush Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s military and financial support networks in […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Protocols impact in Germany and the USA in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as chapters on their post World War 2 life in Japan, Iran, Turkey, South Africa and the Arab world. There is also a useful chapter on the Protocols on the internet. For this reader, though, Beate Kosmala’s chapter, […]
[PDF file]: […] encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject. It is not the author’s intention to prove who was responsible for the fate of Flight 103, though he is clear that Iran, Syria and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command were involved. But he leaves us in no doubt that the culprit is not […]
[PDF file]: Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right Graham Macklin London: Routledge, 2020, £24.99, pb John Newsinger Failed Führers is a volume in the Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right series. At the moment there are almost 60 volumes in the series, already published or forthcoming. The handful that I have so far […]
