[…] Committees of inquiry would be set up to examine them. That is what happened over Watergate, and it is happening today over the supply of weapons to Iran. When Americans feel that their constitution is being challenged by anti-democratic bodies, the first thing they do is to bring into action their Congressional investigative committees […]
[…] compensated by land located in Europe or in the countries that victimized them was misreported, then highly circulated to fuel, instead, the notion of a rabid anti-Semitic Iran. From the height of the network to the lawyers’ boardrooms, and the doctors’ lounges, the pro-Israel supporters of the network aggressively attack as “anti-Semites” any critical […]
[…] and Co. London 1984) This is a pleasant – if somewhat blind – memoire by a US career diplomat who ended up as the US Ambassador to Iran when the Shah fell. There are lots of little bits and pieces in the earlier chapters which may interest students of the history of US involvement […]
[…] where the growth of the left, nationalist movements presents the US with its own dilemma or problem : how to confront a geopolitical threat (Venezuelan alliances with Iran, for instance) when the old methods of Reaganite-sponsored terror are no longer available. () Grandin’s book is wide ranging and detailed in its historical accounts of […]
[…] largely a fabrication by the USA and UK. But to produce the evidence is another. Curtis has produced the evidence – and, as the extract on the Iran coup reproduced above shows, often from official papers. And to my knowledge, no-one else has. Given the pathetic intellectual and social deference paid to the Foreign […]
[…] UNIV’S BERLIN LONDON BIRMINGHAM 1941 ROYAL ENGINEERS 1942-50 ‘SECONDED TO A SPECIAL DEPT OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE’ 1950 MANCHESTER UNIV 1966 PROF OF PERSIAN STUDIES SPECIALIST ON IRAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST BRAND, JOHN MCHARDY B 12.6.50 MI6 (C) 1974 FCO 1975 3RD LATER 2ND SEC ON LOAN TO NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICE 1977 2ND […]
Will the Illuminati arrive in black helicopters or Nazi-designed UFO’s? We are currently awash in dotty conspiracy theories. This is an interesting phenomenon even if the content of most of them is almost totally unreliable – at best. Some of this is the spin-off from the Oklahoma bombing and the media’s discovery of the militias. […]
[…] Then the Sunday Telegraph had to apologise to the son of Colonel Gadafi whom it had accused in 1995 of being involved in a conspiracy to flood Iran with counterfeit money. This was a whiz-bang from those ingenious people at SIS, given to Con Coughlin then the Sunday Telegraph’s man in Whitehall, at that […]
[…] Served in North Africa and Italy 1945-48: Military attaché in Brazil 1950: Accompanied Averell Harriman to Korea 1951: Assisted Harriman in US mediation attempts between Britain and Iran 1951-56: Assistant to the deputy Chief of Staff at Shape, Paris 1956-60 Staff Assistant to President Eisenhower 1967: Served in Vietnam 1967-72: US Military attaché in […]
[…] both a threat and a gift to Arab allies. It can now identify Islamists automatically with terrorism (not completely absurd given the migration of suicidal techniques from Iran to Palestine and thence to Iraq and to Afghanistan, but still a major analytical leap that is not justified by the facts). Carefully placed warnings derived […]
