Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Iraq and intelligence

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[PDF file]: […] the required ‘intelligence’ led the neo-conservatives who were leading the push to attack Iraq to create the Office of Special Plans (OSP), a little unit within the Pentagon, which was conceived by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense. OSP’s role was to find or manufacture intelligence which would provide the pretext for invasion. […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

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[PDF file]: […] hegemony by the rise of China as an economic and military power. The development has come to be seen in US think tanks as well as the Pentagon as a ‘Thucydides trap’. The author of this expression was the political scientist Graham T. Allison, who quoted a passage from the History of the Peloponnesian […]

War on Terror Inc. by Solomon Hughes

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[PDF file]: […] 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 shit-load of […]

Friends of Israel

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[PDF file]: […] The Guardian, 6 November 2004 at ; ‘Secretive US embassy-backed group cultivating UK left’ in UK Declassified, 25 November 2022 at or . Paul Wolfowitz, the neocon Pentagon Deputy Secretary at the time of 9/11 events, was previously the chair of the US committee of the British American Project. 21 or 22 13 Labour, […]

Friends of Israel Booth PDF

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[…] The Guardian, 6 November 2004 at ; ‘Secretive US embassy-backed group cultivating UK left’ in UK Declassified, 25 November 2022 at or . Paul Wolfowitz, the neocon Pentagon Deputy Secretary at the time of 9/11 events, was previously the chair of the US committee of the British American Project. 21 or 22 13 Labour, […]

Reporting Trump

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[PDF file]: […] daily basis child labor, debt slavery, human rights atrocities (particularly by US client nations), white collar-crime, environmental crises involving nuclear or agricultural waste, military contracting corruption (the Pentagon by now cannot account for over six trillion dollars in spending), corporate tax evasion and dozens of other topics’. (p. 84) He returns to this point […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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. *new* The Economic League In Lobster 28 I reviewed Mike Hughes’ Spies at Work, in which he pulled together the fragments […]

Friends of Israel Booth pdf

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[…] The Guardian, 6 November 2004 at ; ‘Secretive US embassy-backed group cultivating UK left’ in UK Declassified, 25 November 2022 at or . Paul Wolfowitz, the neocon Pentagon Deputy Secretary at the time of 9/11 events, was previously the chair of the US committee of the British American Project. 21 or 22 13 Labour, […]

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