[…] worthy cause that is managing to do something that has been prayed for by young Arab and Muslim intellectuals since the early days of the Wafd in Egypt – the expulsion of the West from their lands, Caliphate or not. It is only a matter of time before Muslim insurgency brings the war into […]
[…] seriously impede democracy assistance in a number of states. This backlash is particularly pronounced in the former Soviet states of Eurasia, as well as in China, Venezuela, Egypt, and Zimbabwe. Representatives of democracy assistance NGOs have been harassed, offices closed, and staff expelled. Even more vulnerable are local grantees and project partners who have […]
[…] to stop the West from pushing democracy down their throats and to contain or even imprison dissidents. I do not believe that we should criticise Algeria, Yemen, Egypt or Pakistan for ‘trying it on’ nor the US and France but we have every right to criticise our elected representatives and civil servants […]
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[…] army. The main German emissary, Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, a significant land owner in Prussia with pronounced Christian leanings, met with Lord Lloyd, a former High Commissioner in Egypt, and Sir Robert Vansittart, a career diplomat who actually had little influence with Chamberlain, and Winston Churchill. Churchill told Lord Halifax of the intentions of the […]
[…] the claims made in Anthony Pearson’s Conspiracy of Silence (see below) that the Israelis had ‘cooked’ – ie intercepted, falsified and rebroadcast – communications between Jordan and Egypt during the 1967 war. Imam appears to be produced free by the Press and Information Department of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 27 Princes Gate, London […]
[…] intelligence officer. His father-in-law was Alexander Gorkin, Chairman of the Soviet Supreme Court. It is also believed that Ivanov played a prominent role in Nasser’s coup in Egypt. According to Nigel West (15) he had been identified by ‘D’ branch as an intelligence officer when he first arrived in London on the 27th March […]
[…] denied). Yet other interventions are passed over in silence by Helms just as they are routinely denied in publications of CIA origins or influence: Argentina, Bolivia, Congo, Egypt, France, Greece, Haiti, Italy, Jordan…. Denying and obscuring the CIA’s role in various assassinations, coups, and interventions helps create in the mind of Americans a certain […]
[…] policy. There is, in sum, considerable denial in the world of American letters, and as they say at A.A., I’m told, ‘denial is not a river in Egypt’. George Plimpton ultimately knew the difference between the light and the darkness, which is why, before he died, he named Barney Rosset of Grove Press, as […]
[…] system by their own greedy example through rewards and punishments calculated to perpetuate it.’ (p. 204) Notes This was also a feature of the British empire. Scott Newton refers to this happening in Egypt. See his Historical Notes in Lobster 42, p. 27. http://dominionpaper.ca/labour/2004/12/19/confession.html See, for example, Cheryl Payer, The Debt Trap (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974)
