The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

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[PDF file]: […] new report came across my email transom that reminded me of some harsh realities in today’s Middle East. It was the latest Costs of War report from Brown University— The CIA’s Army: A Threat to Human Rights and an Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan. It stated, “the CIA is still running local militias in […]

The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne

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[PDF file]: […] 9/11 in 2001. The author details the propagandist role of the pro-Israel thinks tanks in Peter Oborne, Basil D’Oliveira, Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story (London: Little, Brown, 2004) 1 The Dispatches programme on the Israel lobby is on YouTube at . The text of the programme is at or 2 2 demonising Muslims […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.’ Ambition Lord save us from people who just want to be the big I-am. We had Gordon Brown, who wanted to be the Big Yin. Gordon joined Labour and apparently was a socialist. Then he sniffed the wind and realised that he had to […]

The Gloucester Horror

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[PDF file]: […] National Archives file AVIA 101/745 is perhaps most interesting not for what it contains but for its folder. In common with such files of government paperwork, the brown card ‘dust jacket’ bears columns that record to whom the completed file was referred and on what date, allowing a reader to trace its bureaucratic travels. […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

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[PDF file]: […] ally, the Soviet Union, real wars with weapons of mass destruction were waged by the US throughout the planet – mainly against what George Carlin called ‘ brown people’. The phoney war was dead serious in that US strategic planners – several of whom were outright fascists recruited from Eastern Europe or Germany – […]

South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

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[PDF file]: […] help us! – Liz Truss). Doubtless this is the real reason for the removal of the whip: divide and conquer. 2 These being Tony Blair , Gordon Brown and David Cameron . 3 It is quite possible that he had/has someone managing his social media. 4 1 eerily quiet.5 It was the weekend after […]

The Lexit delusion

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[PDF file]: […] Murdoch, Viscount Rothermere and the Barclay Brothers, it has sustained a series of Conservative governments since 2010. It propelled the country towards Euroscepticism even in the Blair- Brown era and achieved its most spectacular success in the 2016 referendum and 2019 General Election. The politics and economics of Brexit are therefore right-wing, fusing neoliberalism […]

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong

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[PDF file]: […] worth mentioning here that in 2009, even though it had never been a British colony or dependency, Rwanda was invited by the New Labour government of Gordon Brown to join the British Commonwealth. Its membership was opposed by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative because of the regime’s human rights record, but Rwanda was allowed […]

Angles Morts

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[PDF file]: […] territory. I’m telling you now, if you don’t get those squaddies off the roof, none of you will be coming to the Thursday night disco in your brown boots and mufti.19 The firing duly ceased. At the City Hotel, with some tuition by Stanley Bonnett, the international press had perfected a confidential system of […]

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