[…] lot of money and they needed a high oil price to save them.”‘ ‘He says he was convinced of this by the attitude of the Shah of Iran, who in one crucial day in 1974 moved from the Saudi view, that a hike would be dangerous to OPEC, because it would alienate the US, […]
[…] Pigs veterans, the mob and dissidents in the CIA, we can also factor in the Greek Colonels (business partners of Onassis and bankrolling Nixon),() the Shah of Iran (bitterly opposed to the Kennedys and also bankrolling Nixon), ( ) LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover and the mob-linked billionaire with a grudge, Aristotle Onassis. We have […]
[…] as one of ‘destabilisation’. This was a new term but the tactics were mostly tried and trusted variations on a theme already played successfully for example in Iran, Guatemala, Ecuador, and British Guiana over the preceding generation. (6) For years it has been said that the CIA was implicated in the fall of Allende […]
9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror Ian Henshall and Rowland Morgan London: Robinson, 2005; £8.99, p/b A declaration of a kind of interest: one of the authors of this book, Ian Henshall, is the Chair of INK, the Independent News Collective, to which Lobster belongs and whose leaflets Lobster has […]
[…] for years with his old pal Richard Perle from their base at the American Enterprise Institute for a war on Iraq and now for similar intervention in Iran and Syria. Ledeen was a regular contributor on terrorism and the defence of Ariel Sharon’s Israel in The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator when Conrad Black […]
[…] — Middle Easterners discern them in the merest accidents….. neglecting conspiracy theories can lead to a profound misreading of that region….’. He declares that ‘The shah of Iran and Anwar as-Sadat lost their countrymen’s respect because both were (wrongly) seen as agents of Washington.’ Wrongly, huh? Depends on how he is using ‘agent’. Do […]
[…] a laptop and a scotch. In a quick overview of the relations between the US and other ex-enemies, (now comrades-in-arms), we get a glance at Yemen, Sudan, Iran, North Korea and Pakistan. If there’s a criticism of this book it is too broad and too thin, constantly throwing up nuggets of detail that cry […]
Chip Berlet This 63-page essay describes a wide range of contacts between what in a British context would be described as right-wing conspiracy theorists and the left. Berlet documents a range of contacts between the far-right Liberty Lobby, followers of LaRouche, Bo Gritz and the Populist Party, the Christic Institute, Radio Free America and a […]
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[…] operations of this period’. If asked about CIA covert operations in this period I would have difficulty producing much information about anything before the 1953 coup in Iran. Some bits on Italy, some on Germany, the Congress for Cultural Freedom… Pisani’s thesis is correcting a fault only she perceives. Pisani shows how a smallish […]
