[…] 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 […]
[…] populist backlash termed “the revolt of the public” by former CIA analyst Martin Gurri for an act of war. And it received the full backing of the Pentagon, the intelligence community, and President Biden, all of whom, notes Glenn Greenwald, have declared that “the gravest menace to American national security” is not Russia, ISIS, […]
Contents Lobster 58 Hollow Hegemony Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance David Chandler London: Pluto Books, 20009, £17.99 I shouldn’t be reviewing this book: I am not qualified to do so. What do I know about international relations theory, which is what this book is about? And, in any case, its subject matter is really […]
[PDF file]: […] were ‘a two-man obstacle to just about everything President Trump wanted to get done. They were perfect representations of the establishment rot that had taken over the Pentagon’. They were ‘rogue actors who tried to destroy the Trump agenda’, mounting ‘many covert attempts’ and launching ‘a negative PR campaign against President Trump’. And General […]
[…] and, to no-one’s surprise, came up with a bigger ‘threat’, and thus the support for the increased expenditure on U.S. armaments sought by the neo-conservatives and the Pentagon and its satellite arms corporations.8 If the U.S. arms industry needed a bomber gap, a missile gap, or a psi gap, if the government needed a […]
[PDF file]: […] Hugh Gaitskell, was in the Scottish capital from 1968 until his retirement from the foreign service in 1971. 2 His younger son, Dean Godson, a former US Pentagon official and now a Tory peer, is director of the ‘think-tank’ Policy Exchange. 3 Discussed in Tom Easton, ‘Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent’ in Lobster 47. 3 […]
[…] and, to no-one’s surprise, came up with a bigger ‘threat’, and thus the support for the increased expenditure on U.S. armaments sought by the neo-conservatives and the Pentagon and its satellite arms corporations.8 If the U.S. arms industry needed a bomber gap, a missile gap, or a psi gap, if the government needed a […]
[PDF file]: […] the Watergate burglary because two of its planners had engaged in a previous felony break-in, ordered by the White House, to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers. They were members of a secret ‘Special Investigations Unit’, created at Nixon’s orders to engage in burglaries, forgery and other crimes to discredit his enemies […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘relentlessly turned the Bible into a manual of atomic-age combat’. He went through the Book of Revelations ‘mechanically transcribing every phrase and image into the vocabulary of Pentagon strategists’.18 It has been argued that Reagan, who claimed to be an admirer of The Late Great Planet Earth, was actually influenced by these prophecies while […]
[PDF file]: […] let alone all the still secret stuff – this is sort of surprising. But perhaps it hasn’t been trying. Perhaps the large increase in funding for the Pentagon bought off the ‘deep state’. * Related to the above, I asked Google AI for use of the term ‘deep state’ and inter alia it offered […]
