[…] the Middle East Jonathan Cook London: Pluto Books, 2008, £14.99, p/b Was the invasion of Iraq a disastrous cock-up by the Americans and British, and by the Pentagon in particular? There certainly is a long line of people from within or close to the British and American states asserting this in various forms in […]
[…] operations, including short sections on some UK firms; a chapter on Alexander Haig’s post-government career in this field; and a chapter on the revolving door between the Pentagon and the arms corporations. The private sector has become increasingly involved in the use of military force abroad (a) because of greater deniability – the same […]
[…] 1971) was, pure and simple, a get-ready-for-action call. You’d have to be an idiot to think otherwise … But there wasn’t any action anticipated. Not then. The Pentagon Papers hadn’t been published. The Plumbers were months away. So, you tell me, how did Hunt know (in April) that he’d need the Cubans?” (p29) Might […]
[…] US Department of Defence (DoD) does not have a single unit to handle UFO reports. Apart from the many departments known to UFO researchers run from the Pentagon, there is another component about which no public information is available. In the course of studying a serious UFO case from the former Soviet Union, I […]
[PDF file]: Cold War Anthropology The CIA, the Pentagon and the growth of dual use anthropology David H. Price Durham (North Carolina) and London, Duke University Press, 2016, paperback, 452 pages, bibliography, notes, index. B eginning in 1967, journalists and academics have shown that during the first Cold War with the Soviet Union the CIA tried […]
[…] the Tonkin incident remains unproven. What happened clearly was much less than what Johnson was told or subsequently convinced himself of. In the 1970s, just before the Pentagon Papers were released, Ellsberg recalls: ‘General Maxwell Taylor was being interviewed by Martin Agronsky, in a program that had been taped earlier. He was describing his […]
[…] or so, is part parapolitical and part deep history of America from Nixon to Ronald Reagan’s first election victory. Crudely summarised, Scott shows the rise of the Pentagon and its industrial allies and political front men (almost entirely men). Recovering from the set-backs of Watergate, failure in Vietnam and associated revelations and Congressional enquiries, […]
[…] has written an account of the American military-industrial complex (MIC from here on for convenience) and some of its recent activities.(9) The author’s thesis is that the Pentagon and its allies and dependants are now engaged in what he calls parasitic imperialism: ‘When an inordinately large military establishment of a world power reaches such […]
[…] it was possible for NATO to brief an entire English-speaking press corps without there being substantial, unofficial English-language sources of information to contradict them. No wonder the Pentagon has now put the Internet on its enemies list.(4) Notes See also Edward Herman’s ‘Safari Journalism: Schindler’s Unholy Terror Versus the Sarajevo Safari’s Mythical Multi-Ethnic Project’ […]
[…] run from the White House. In the face of a congressional ban on American aid he relied on a corrupt Iranian arms merchant (Albert Hakim), a scandal-tainted Pentagon officer (Richard Secord), a shady CIA veteran connected to the drug-linked Nugan Hand Bank (Thomas Clines), a convicted Syrian arms-and-drugs dealer (Manzer al-Kassar), a fugitive wanted […]
