[…] he shows that the Werrity affair wasn’t, as some suspected, part of an Israeli operation, but was a piece of the Anglo-British–Israeli preparation for an attack on Iran. Murray doesn’t comment on the operational incompetence of using the Defence Secretary’s bagman, or the possibility that the exposure of the Werrity connection has been done […]
[PDF file]: […] Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Currently, the U.S. and its garrison state (or is it the tail wagging the dog on this one?) are hypocritically and shamelessly targeting Iran, a NPT signatory, for destruction. The U.S.’s greatest champion of the ‘war on terror’, Israel is an increasingly dangerous and regionally destabilising outlaw in its own […]
[…] Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Currently, the U.S. and its garrison state (or is it the tail wagging the dog on this one?) are hypocritically and shamelessly targeting Iran, a NPT signatory, for destruction. The U.S.’s greatest champion of the ‘war on terror’, Israel is an increasingly dangerous and regionally destabilising outlaw in its own […]
[PDF file]: […] such an important role to play in the future.’ Lest we forget (2) The recent death of British-born David Kimche reminds us that there were days when Iran was not top of Israel and America’s ‘axis of evil’ hit list, but rather the means of lubricating the foreign policy interests of both. Mossad 91 […]
[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]: Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics Jonathan Marshall Note: In my ‘Blackmail and the Deep State’, also in this issue of Lobster, I discussed the importance of political blackmail as a force in America’s deep politics from the late 1950s to Watergate. This article, which also addresses Watergate, focuses on the politics […]
[PDF file]: The Devil’s Chessboard Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government David Talbot William Collins, London, 2015 HB, 686pp., illus., index, bib., refs., £25.00 This truly excellent biography is at least partly a biography of two men, Allen Dulles and his older brother John Foster. I write ‘at least partly’ because the […]
[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]: […] and ensuing civil war. Finally Cockburn gets to the rise of ISIS, which he spotted very early on, and the present chaotic situation with Saudi Arabia and Iran funding proxy armies and NATO member Turkey assisting ISIS and attacking the Kurds (who are fighting ISIS). The major theme here is this: as happened 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, […]
