Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and […]
[…] did — real people with real names (if only we knew who they were!) deciding he was a threat to their private interests and successfully engineering a coup. Besides Fletcher Prouty, who has long maintained this view, another Stone advisor was Major John M. Newman, a professor and former military intelligence officer, whose competence […]
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The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A Peoples History of American Empire: a … Read more
[…] is the thesis that has always been promoted by Searchlight. From their famous issue ‘The Men in the Shadows’ (no. 18, November 1976) through to their ‘Quiet Coup’ issue (no. 144, June 1987), Searchlight has consistently pointed the finger at the activities of former MI6 Vice Chief G.K. Young and ‘the bridge’ between the […]
[…] liberal. The CIA and its allies in the mass media toppled Nixon only to lose the estimates war in the long run anyway. Watergate wasn’t really a coup d’etat as some, notably Coulson, have suggested. Hougan’s point that the CIA could hardly have predicted the fall of Nixon has to be considered, but there […]
[…] prevailing in Chile on the left as they waited for the military to crush Allende. Some of the people Blum knew in Chile were murdered after the coup. Blum quit America and went Europe – Denmark, Germany and then Britain. He didn’t like us uptight Europeans very much. More scuffling. In London he was […]
[…] the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. Lodge would drag his heels at reaching any accommodation with Vietnam’s President Diem, while the CIA’s Lucien Conein was busy organising the coup against him, just as the generals dragged their feet on troop withdrawal. With the CIA engineering ‘Quiet American’ style terrorism, bombing a Buddhist monastery in Hue […]
[…] the covert operations of this period’. If asked about CIA covert operations in this period I would have difficulty producing much information about anything before the 1953 coup in Iran. Some bits on Italy, some on Germany, the Congress for Cultural Freedom… Pisani’s thesis is correcting a fault only she perceives. Pisani shows how […]
[…] the Private Finance Iniative (PFI), and there is a mine of information in his footnotes. The central thesis of the book is the assertion that a ‘ coup’ took place in this country whereby the business and financial elites have captured all the levers of power. It is a picture that he presents in […]
