[…] of Scotland Alex Salmond have surfaced three months after Mr Salmond publicly cast doubt on the official verdict on the Lockerbie bombing.’ 70 The official line on Libya is not the only one from which Salmond has strayed. He has become a loose cannon in British politics71 – albeit, like that other loose cannon, […]
[PDF file]: […] by the USA, the EU and NATO was accompanied by a hubristic liberal-capitalist triumphalism which poisoned and destabilised the international environment. The recent history of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria provides clear evidence of a dialectical process in which Western intervention has fuelled political instability and led to blowback in the form of Islamic […]
[PDF file]: […] And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw […]
[PDF file]: […] also notes that the failure to topple Colonel Gaddafi ‘created a vacuum for international terrorism’. (He does not discuss UK involvement in funding various Islamist groups in Libya and Syria.) ‘Covert action helped mask decline in other places such as the Middle East. Yet it could only stem the tide of nationalism for so […]
[PDF file]: […] of Scotland Alex Salmond have surfaced three months after Mr Salmond publicly cast doubt on the official verdict on the Lockerbie bombing.’ 65 The official line on Libya is not the only one from which Salmond has strayed. He has become a loose cannon in British politics66 – albeit, like that other loose cannon, […]
[…] And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw […]
[PDF file]: […] allies in the region)? They are the last people anyone from the US government would seek to implicate. If you wanted a pretext to attack Iraq, Iran, Libya or Syria, the false flag would be accompanied by links to one (or several) of those countries, not Saudi Arabia.25 This scenario is absurd. As, indeed, […]
[PDF file]: […] The Register in 2001 . 32 See ‘Palantir knows everything about you’ by Peter Waldman, Lizette Chapman, and Jordan Robertson for Bloomberg at . 33 See ‘ Libya rendition case against ex-MI6 officer may be held partly in secret’ in The Guardian 4 May 2017 or . 34 At . His Oxford University email […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. Simon says Regular contributor to these columns, Simon Matthews, has a new book out. Looking for a New England, the sequel to his Psychedelic Celluloid, is published on 28 January 2021. Details of what […]
