[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] and gave up. That material is on a disk somewhere. Truth is, I could never take the US-did-9/11 thesis seriously, because of the targets: Manhattan and the Pentagon. I just could not imagine any US conspirators deciding to attack those locations. Had it been Disneyland, or some provincial city, OK. But not those towers […]
[PDF file]: […] the US Military and the American Empire Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos Peter Bergen New York: Penguin Press, 2019 Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis Guy M. Snodgrass New York: Sentinel (Penguin Random House), 2019 The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael […]
[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, […]
