[PDF file]: […] with Iran, Cameron appointed right-winger Liam Fox as Minister of Defence precisely to pursue exactly the same kind of privatisation agenda pursued by Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon from 2000. (Klein, 2007, pp. 293-305) While Rumsfeld was saved from the Joint Chiefs of Staff by 9/11, it was this privatising zeal that led Liam […]
[…] to 9/11. I glanced at the other essays listed on the site’s home page. One caught my eye: ‘How we KNOW an airliner did NOT hit the Pentagon’. This is one of the most striking of the ‘truther’ claims. If true it means that the eye-witnesses who say they saw an airliner flying into […]
[…] at the time – the Republicans had stolen the election at the Florida count and protests about that had continued – and was strengthened when the 1962 Pentagon proposals, Operation Northwoods, were noticed.61 The second theme was ‘It must be a state/deep state conspiracy because there was no air defence.’ (I don’t know what […]
[PDF file]: […] that plane.’ It’s been a while since I looked at 9/11 but I thought I remembered quite a lot of photographs of debris inside and outside the Pentagon. So I went to Google Images and asked for ‘9/11, Pentagon, debris’ and yes, there are now hundreds if not thousands of such images. As for […]
[PDF file]: […] at the time – the Republicans had stolen the election at the Florida count and protests about that had continued – and was strengthened when the 1962 Pentagon proposals, Operation Northwoods, were noticed.62 The second theme was ‘It must be a state/deep state conspiracy because there was no air or 61 Northwoods was a […]
[PDF file]: […] the 19 June 1972 break-in at the Watergate complex. The previous year, on 13 June 1971, the New York Times had published the first batch of the Pentagon Papers, a splash falling six inside pages deep. They cited documents that showed the fabrication, fiction, and falsehoods being fed to the public about the USA’s […]
[PDF file]: […] October, 2001, . 12 See Wikipedia ‘Chemtrail conspiracy theory’, no date. confirmed in 1997 by then US Defense Secretary Bill Cohen, who admitted that he and his Pentagon cronies were ‘intensify our efforts’ to ‘set off volcanoes, tsunamis using electromagnetic waves’,1 3 echoing the work of President Johnson’s science advisor, Gordon MacDonald, in the […]
[PDF file]: […] devised by him and his immediate—and secretive —inner circle: Peter Rodman, Abe Shulsky, William Luti, and Paul Wolfowitz, who was probably the biggest war hawk at the Pentagon. This circle ran a special intelligence unit that undermined the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the CIA, and the State Department’s efforts to find links between Iraq […]
[PDF file]: The Doomsday Machine Daniel Ellsberg London: Bloomsbury, 2017, £20.00 Alex Cox Until recently I only knew Daniel Ellsberg as the whistleblower who made the Pentagon Papers public, and for his peace campaigning over the years. I had no idea that prior to releasing a trove of documents related to the American War in Vietnam, […]
[PDF file]: […] memorandum of that conversation. There was more than a touch of ‘poker’ to this conversation. RFK told Hoover that Sullivan’s dossier was causing some debate at the Pentagon, and, now that he was aware of that debate, RFK was getting alarmed. RFK didn’t show his hand to the hated Hoover, and didn’t express any […]
