[…] significant extracts from the Defence Attache article on 007, a two page review/article on Loftus’ The Belarus Secret, and precis on events in Italy, Peru, Africa, Mozambique, Iran, the General Collins trial mentioned in Lobster 1, (which has never been followed up in the UK press), Reagan, Laxalt and organised crime, and Nicaragua. Subs. […]
[…] The second is its very one-sided account of recent events in the Middle East, so that, for example, the CIA’s and MI6’s covert toppling of Mossadeq in Iran in 1953 is only mentioned in passing, and the Zionists’ seizure of Palestine on the grounds that they had lived there 2000 years before – a […]
Compiled by Jane Affleck The US GAO is the investigative arm of the US Congress, and is charged with examining all matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of public funds. It conducts audits, surveys, investigations and evaluations of federal programmes, either at its own initiative or at the request of Congressional Committees or members. […]
[…] trade route to the Far East and the main passage through which oil reached Britain and Europe was com-pounded by the coming to power of Musaddiq in Iran. It became apparent to the British government that their regional interests could only be secured through Cyprus, their only remaining colony in the area. Towards the […]
[…] integrated world economy. However, as Sanders shows, the enterprise was vulnerable and unstable. It depended on the use of local surrogate forces such as the Shah of Iran to maintain US power in the Third World; and at home, its co-ordinating body, the Trilateral Commission, was resolutely elitist. (Hardly surprising, since to explain and […]
[…] to pursue nuclear programs, no matter what the time or cost, are very different’ from traditional nuclear powers such as Britain and France. North Korea, Algeria, Libya, Iran and, of course, Iraq fit this bill. To quote: ‘They and their terrorist cousins are more likely driven by…. the desire to…. terrorise, blackmail, coerce, or […]
[…] possible because everyone – except David Shayler, apparently – knows that Libya didn’t do Lockerbie. But HMG doesn’t want to embarrass America by pressing it. Now that Iran is again top of the list of America’s designated enemies, it is OK to blame them for Lockerbie; and just hope that we forget Libya. On […]
Political debris continues to fall from the bombing of the Pan-Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988, which killed 270 people. Fallout from Lockerbie has begun to reveal one of the ugliest political corruptions of recent times. This Byzantine tale is further evidence of just how powerful and ruthless the American-led international security apparatus — […]
[…] been an intelligence officer in Palestine, and had also served in Malaya, Cyprus, Arabia and Kenya. He stayed at Lisburn till March 1973, when he transferred to Iran as an instructor at the Imperial Armed Forces College. He was awarded the CBE the same year. In 1975 he went to Nottingham, and in 1976 […]
Charles F. Reske Alpha Publications, Sharon Center, Ohio, USA. For Vietnam War buffs — and no particular political persuasion is necessary to be fascinated by the surreal, epic quality of that conflict — the holiest of holies is probably the Special Operations Group (SOG). One of the most shadowy organizations ever formed by the Pentagon, […]
