[PDF file]: […] £2 billion a year in 2012 and in the same paragraph that the UK exported ‘nearly £1 million-worth’ of small arms to Sri Lanka in 2010. (p. 103). £1 million is a drop in Sri Lanka’s military budget let alone that of the US.4 Some of the chapters are straightforward and readily intelligible; others […]
[PDF file]: […] business…’ Reported in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 25 January 1925. 8 Philip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, (Harmondsworth, Penguin: 1975) p. 103. See also John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies (1984). extensive military and secret police force to suppress opposition to it. Officially, US national security means the […]
[…] Corinne Souza died on 13 25 ‘Was there a deal with Iran over Lockerbie bombing? The West should come clean about who really bombed Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 – we owe it to the victims’ families’ at . Calling this shameless doesn’t quite do it justice. March of lung cancer, caused by […]
[PDF file]: […] self-consciously bright and overly selfassured statesmen, when combined with gross ignorance, can have fatal effects not just for single individuals but for whole societies and nations.’ (p. 103) This account and the extracts from Hancock’s diary do convey considerable sang-froid on the author’s part; and at the rear of the book there are reproductions […]
[PDF file]: The state we are in Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation Sam Bright London: Byline Books, 2023, £14.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2011, the Eton entrance exam paper asked prospective students (12 to 13year-old boys) to draft a speech: The year is 2040. There have been riots in the streets of London after […]
[PDF file]: […] in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline and Drug Connection (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1987) Coleman, L., Trail of the Octopus: The Untold Story of Pan Am 103 (Second edition, Kindle and Nook Publishing, 2010) Cordesman, A H, ‘The Tanker War, 1987-1988’ in Cordesman, A. H., The Iran-Iraq War (Amazone Press, 2003) Dorril, S., […]
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