[…] Republicans stealing the election for George W. Bush. (Remember the hanging chads in Florida?) There were also pilots who could not believe the plane that hit the Pentagon could have been flown so fast and so low. However the majority thought the Twin Towers were obviously demolished by explosive charges. Among the early advocates […]
[PDF file]: […] President Nixon’s directive in the summer of 1971 to uncover and silence unauthorized leakers of administration secrets. Topping their list of targets was Daniel Ellsberg, a former Pentagon official who had helped draft the top-secret Pentagon Papers, a highly critical study of the history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg had leaked the 7,000page report […]
[…] they are inserted7 7 but will increase anti-American feeling and thus – and this is the only point of them – will generate new ‘enemies’ for the Pentagon to fight; with expensive ordnance 7 8 provided by the arms manufacturers; a small fraction of whose profits will be used to bribe Congress. This is […]
[PDF file]: […] historical examples of false flag events providing a casus belli. But here’s the thing: the previous examples were all small beer. Attacking the twin towers and the Pentagon was a huge event. Let’s say that an inter-service alliance within the US military-intelligence complex – and that’s what would be required – decided that they […]
[PDF file]: […] 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]: […] regime in perception management and propaganda. This is downplayed by Harvey, as is the avowedly revolutionary transformation in US strategy brought in by Donald Rumsfeld to the Pentagon. The centrepiece here was a declaratory policy of, if needs be, preemptive war.5 Harvey himself, and many other observers, agree that a likely Gore administration approach […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock As I read the first few paragraphs of the story about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in particular and […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock A s I read the first few paragraphs of the story about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in particular […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell’ in Lobster 77.1 As a US presidential candidate in 1976, James Earl (Jimmy) Carter Jr. attended a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., the aim of which was to seek official disclosure of the truth about the 1947 ‘Roswell Incident’. The other participants in the meeting […]
[…] at . 4 5 6 Chauncey Holt, Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel (Waterville, OR: TrineDay, 2013) p. 158 ‘In November 1997 the JFK Assassination Records Review Board released Pentagon documents which, according to the Reuters’ report on this, show that “The Pentagon drew up plans to mount a bloody ‘terror campaign’ in the United States […]
