[PDF file]: […] Bakiyev owed the state over $80,000,000 in unpaid taxes on fuel supplied to US military aircraft at the Manas air base when it was leased to the Pentagon for operations in Afghanistan. The Prosecutor-General said that Maksim Bakiyev diverted $35,000,000 of a $300,000,000 Russian loan for the construction of the Kambarata-1 hydro-electric project into […]
[…] which mainstream media outlets in the West did not discuss in much detail. This was the country’s place in US global strategy. As early as 1992 a Pentagon defence planning document explicitly stated that the main objective of US security policy should be ‘to obstruct the emergence of any potential rival – “either on […]
[PDF file]: […] The assassination conspiracy was leaky. And this suggests very strongly that we are dealing with something other than a professional job by the intelligence services or the Pentagon. It is hard to imagine the pros holding anything more closely than the assassination of a president.’ In the beginning I now can’t remember how I […]
[PDF file]: […] Hugh Gaitskell, was in the Scottish capital from 1968 until his retirement from the foreign service in 1971. 2 His younger son, Dean Godson, a former US Pentagon official and now a Tory peer, is director of the ‘think-tank’ Policy Exchange. 3 Discussed in Tom Easton, ‘Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent’ in Lobster 47. 3 […]
[PDF file]: […] Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted little attention initially, a nine page section about Operation Northwoods was noticed by the 9/11 sceptics. Northwoods was a 1962 Pentagon plan to commit a terrorist atrocity and blame it on Cuba, to provide the pretext for another invasion of the island.1 Subsequently, that short section has […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘relentlessly turned the Bible into a manual of atomic-age combat’. He went through the Book of Revelations ‘mechanically transcribing every phrase and image into the vocabulary of Pentagon strategists’.18 It has been argued that Reagan, who claimed to be an admirer of The Late Great Planet Earth, was actually influenced by these prophecies while […]
[PDF file]: […] is almost no evidence. The best that can be established is that JFK wanted to cool the Cold War and spend less of America’s taxes on the Pentagon and its satellite corporations. Beyond that all we have are wisps of stuff, chiefly Timothy Leary’s account of what Meyer said to him about JFK, upon […]
[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 […]
[…] in the world. It appears that no-one actually knows, in part because no-one can agree on the definition of ‘a base’. ‘Empire of Bases 2.0 Does the Pentagon Really Have 1,180 Foreign Bases?’ at The most important research currently available on NATO and all its doings is that by Rick Rozoff at and many […]
