The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]
[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 […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]
[PDF file]: […] Alliance and Daszak declined to comment for this story.’51 This article did not refer to the report that EcoHealth Alliance had received nearly $40 million from the Pentagon which it had tried to ‘bury’ in its accounts.52 Charles Schmidt, ‘Lab Leak: A Scientific Debate Mired in Politics — and Unresolved’ at . 51 or […]
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]: […] these high-level cover-ups was nothing less than the CIA’s basic strategy for the containment of Communism in East and South-East Asia, which (as documents published with the Pentagon Papers have confirmed) relied heavily on the opium growing KMT troops of the Burma-LaosThailand border areas and their contacts with the pro-KMT secret societies in the […]
[…] 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. Changing times . . . In one of his (now deleted) YouTube pieces Professor Jeffrey Sachs mentioned a book about US […]
[…] Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted little attention initially, a nine page section about Operation Northwoods was noticed by the 9/11 sceptics. Northwoods was a 1962 Pentagon plan to commit a terrorist atrocity and blame it on Cuba, to provide the pretext for another invasion of the island.1 Subsequently, that short section has […]
[…] 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. Changing times . . . In one of his (now deleted) YouTube pieces Professor Jeffrey Sachs mentioned a book about US […]
