[…] increased intervention by neighbouring powers, Turkey and Pakistan are going through a period of domestic instability and the West is trying to provoke a similar instability in Iran. Meanwhile, the intervention in Somalia has simply dispersed Islamist radicals, increasing Islamism in Eastern Africa and Northern Nigeria. The catalogue could go on. Most truly insurgent […]
[…] of pounds of bribes and general ripping-off of the public purse could be done on the quiet. Hence Malaysia and the Pergau dam fiasco; hence arming Iraq, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Indonesia and who knows which other scum-bag regimes; hence the huge subsidies of the arms industry by the British state. In the Public Interest […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] (emphasis added) This extract, be it noted, is the work of man who was in charge of the British end of the overthrow of the government of Iran, part of which, according to another of James’ revelations, was the assassination of ‘a key minister by sending him an exploding shaver’. (p. 45) The Tony […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 1973.(147) This is consistent both with the Nixon doctrine and with its corollary that (in the words of the Rand Corp’s Indonesia expert, Guy Pauker) “Brazil, Nigeria, Iran and Indonesia….are expected to assume a dominant position in their respective part of the world…possibly as a result of a tacit devolution of responsibilities by global […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] fact go to jail, but with sentences that were either token, or soon reversed in higher courts. On a higher level, the fall of the Shah in Iran and of Marcos in the Philippines have been followed by new revelations of those dictators’ links to private as well as public forces in the United […]
