[PDF file]: […] commonly accepted that Iraq either possessed such weapons or was seeking to develop them during the 1980s. Indeed, Iraq was known to have used chemical weapons against Iran during the 1980-88 conflict between the two states and against the Kurds in the Halabja massacre of 16 March 1988. Removing Iraq’s WMD capacity was seen […]
[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]: […] foreign invader, usurping the presidency from the American people’. Indeed he might well be ‘a crypto-Muslim terrorist’, someone in league with ‘Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, and Iran’. (p. 21) This was all part of the conspiracy culture that became ‘central to the politics of the Christian Right’. Leading the way were the ‘birthers’. […]
[PDF file]: […] even so, it’s the negatives that stand out. Anglo-American intelligence agencies have failed to predict wars and uprisings, made international situations worse through their covert interventions ( Iran in 1953 is the big example, but there are many others), abused human rights, broken everyone’s laws, routinely spied on innocents, been penetrated by enemies as […]
[PDF file]: Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare Thomas Rid London: Profile Books, 2020, 513 pp, £10.99 Colin Challen The dissemination of disinformation is as old as the hills, and now, thanks to the Internet, its transformation from the analogue age to the digital has given it what Rid explains as a post-modernist […]
[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]: […] This is all being organised by al-Qaeda, and, moreover, ‘it has recently been reported’, that this invasion ‘may be’ being carried out in alliance with Venezuela and Iran. Rubin puts forward a plan for how to defeat this attempted Muslim takeover. Among his recommendations are an immediate ban on all Muslim immigration into the […]
[PDF file]: […] been receiving payments from Iraq.7 8 Moreover, by 2008-10 it became abundantly clear that US troops in Iraq served Israel’s security needs – as a bulwark against Iran – judging by the panicked response from Israel and its US supporters as the US withdrawal loomed.79 Given its long history of support for the Jewish […]
l Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 Kathryn S. Olmsted Oxford University Press, 2009, £12.99, p/b 1 1 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 […]
[PDF file]: Conspiracy theories and conspiracy facts THEY KNEW How a Culture of Conspiracy keeps America Complacent Sarah Kendzior New York: Flatiron Books 2022 John Newsinger Sarah Kendzior is one of the most interesting commentators writing about contemporary America. Her two previous books, The View from Flyover Country (2018) and Hiding in Plain Sight (2020), are essential […]
