[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] but there is something else here. The US State Department counts for little. It was by-passed in the 1950s by the paramilitary (CIA) and the military ( Pentagon). The US State Department exists as a kind of cover story for America’s military power; indeed its subsidiary status is shown by the cables which show […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] which mainstream media outlets in the West did not discuss in much detail. This was the country’s place in US global strategy. As early as 1992 a Pentagon defence planning document explicitly stated that the main objective of US security policy should be ‘to obstruct the emergence of any potential rival – “either on […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] network that was the UK Government-supported BAP when his opposite number in the US was NeoCon Paul Wolfowitz, a key Republican ‘war on terror’ figure. Wolfowitz became Pentagon deputy to Donald Rumsfeld with a major role in planning and promoting the invasion of Iraq in the George W Bush administration. Mandelson was by then […]
[…] too.)7 Item: who wrote this? If peace breaks out, defense contractors like Raytheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin lose billions in profits. There are 7-figure jobs waiting for Pentagon brass who ensure that peace does not happen when they “retire” from public service. This is why the all willingly lied to the public about Afghanistan […]
[PDF file]: […] who would have thought that James Watson, who ‘had earlier won fame for his role in discovering the double-helix structure of DNA’, once served ‘on a secret Pentagon CBW advisory panel’. Hersh’s discussion of My Lai – he rightly calls it a ‘National Disgrace’ – is essential reading, although it was merely the tip […]
[…] private is better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc. etc., boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a load of […]
