[PDF file]: […] President Kennedy practised nuclear brinksmanship twice: the authors discuss the Cuban missile crisis, but not the equally serious crisis over NATO access to Berlin, for which the Pentagon offered a slate of nuclear options. Lyndon Johnson differentiated himself from his Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater, over the nuclear issue and issued no nuclear threats during […]
[PDF file]: […] years since I did so. However there was a very interesting essay on changing styles in British political policing on 19 ‘Empire of Bases 2.0 Does the Pentagon Really Have 1,180 Foreign Bases?’ at . 20 21 22 8 Against that background, the then Chief of the General Staff, Sir Richard Dannatt, told me […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] previous two.1 He has earlier argued for a secret Kennedy venture known as CDay that planned for a coup in Cuba to be carried out by the Pentagon and the CIA which would be synced with the assassination of Castro by an undercover operator on the island. The Soviets would be blamed, the populace […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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]: […] of the squat, ugly, and unlikeable Panamanian caudillo. The 1988 indictments in Miami and Tampa sealed Noriega’s fate. They silenced most of his remaining allies in the Pentagon and CIA and all but forced Vice President and then President Bush to demand that Noriega leave power. The Latin strongman’s cocky refusal posed an unforgiveable […]
[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. […]
[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 […]
