[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] it engages, America is always right, well-intentioned and frequently the victim. That this fantastic lie is in the films owes something (how much isn’t clear) to the Pentagon and CIA liaison operations with the studios. “Wanna borrow a submarine? Talk to the Navy guy.” If Alford isn’t quite describing the corporations and the state […]
[PDF file]: […] invasion within the US intelligence and foreign services. This DVD puts that opposition’s case. Cutting together interviews with a large cast of former CIA, State Department and Pentagon officials, some very senior, and footage of public statements of Bush, Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, the film shows that the Bush administration’s ‘intelligence’ on Iraq […]
[PDF file]: […] events themselves. Within days of 9/11 a number of people received letters containing anthrax spores, the attendant publicity greatly swelling the panic following the World Trade Centre/ Pentagon attacks.1 Among them were ABC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw and two Democratic senators critical to rapid Congressional approval of a Patriot Bill conferring wideranging new […]
[PDF file]: […] respond to the threat of hijacked aircraft targeting prominent US buildings,58 but that these air defences proved totally inadequate on September 11. We also know that senior Pentagon staff did not tell the full story about that to Congress or the 9/11 Commission. In several cases those whose testimony was misleading were subsequently promoted. […]
[…] and its military installations and equipment in particular, are being regularly visited by vehicles from . . . somewhere else . . . vehicles whose performance the Pentagon can’t understand, let alone replicate. Politicians and economics Few politicians bother to learn elementary economics and the monetarist idea of the mid 1970s – control the […]
[…] its military installations and equipment in particular, are being regularly visited by vehicles from . . . somewhere else . . . in vehicles whose performance the Pentagon can’t understand, let alone replicate. The Israel lobby According to Lobster’s search engine, AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was first mentioned more than 20 […]
[PDF file]: […] of Staff of the U.S. Air Force to provide special Air Force support to certain clandestine CIA overflight operations. In April 1960, a member of the Chief’s Pentagon office staff was in Thailand overseeing a major series of long-range overflights into Tibet and far northwestern China. Later that spring, orders came down to stop […]
[…] its military installations and equipment in particular, are being regularly visited by vehicles from . . . somewhere else . . . in vehicles whose performance the Pentagon can’t understand, let alone replicate. The Israel lobby According to Lobster’s search engine, AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was first mentioned more than 20 […]
[PDF file]: […] of the William Cohen Group in Washington DC where he works as ‘senior counsellor’ to the weapons and security consultants. Cohen was Robertson’s opposite number at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration.2 Reporting on the referendum for the BBC from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the […]
