[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]: […] 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]: […] his Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater, over the nuclear issue and issued no nuclear threats during his presidency. President Carter raised the possibility of a nuclear attack on Iran during the hostage crisis. President Reagan presided over a massive nuclear build-up which came close to accidental thermonuclear war during the misinterpreted Able Archer alert. President […]
[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]: […] Acknowledgements (p. viii): ‘This is a history of things that did not officially happen using primary sources that few realise exist.’ If the subheads are familiar – Iran, Suez, Oman, Yemen, Malaya, Indonesia, British Guyana, Northern Ireland etc. – most of the content is new, thanks to an enormous effort at official file reading […]
[PDF file]: […] known to be a strong backer of vocal Israel supporters John McCain and Joe Lieberman.The authors write: ‘Tony Blair is publicly signed up to Saban’s views about Iran and Israel. If that were not the case, it is most unlikely that Saban would be funding his Faith Foundation…. Money comes with strings attached. Tony […]
[…] on reform of the spooks https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-10-15-transparency-britainsunaccountable-intelligence-agencies-could-be-held-to-account-heres-how/ Integrety Initiative https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/12/the-strange-mind-of-christophernigel-donnelly.html Subject: Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel… https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-07-03-revealed-hundreds-ofsaudi-and-gulf-military-personnel-trained-in-britain-as-yemen-war-continues/ what goes around comes around – eventually. 61 Iran coup prog. tape interview published https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/dc.html?doc=7033886-National-Security-Archive Well, I mean, look, I think what he should be saying is that we become beholden to China to the […]
[PDF file]: […] with Israel and Saudi Arabia, to attempt to establish complete domination over the Middle East. First Iraq would be dealt with to be followed by Syria and Iran, without forgetting Hamas and Hizbullah. This was the project that New Labour bought into. The only dispute with the Americans was over how to justify this […]
[…] the intelligence community, and President Biden, all of whom, notes Glenn Greenwald, have declared that “the gravest menace to American national security” is not Russia, ISIS, China, Iran, or North Korea, but “‘domestic extremists’ in general—and far-right white supremacist groups in particular.” The new information regulators failed to win over vaccine skeptics, convince MAGA […]
