The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Liberty incident, one strand has it that US president Johnson authorised the Israeli attack on the Liberty, seeking to create a pretext for a US attack on Egypt. In his 2003 book, Operation Cyanide, Peter Hounam, sometime head of the Sunday Times ‘Insight’ team, argues that a nuclear attack was planned and was within […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

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[PDF file]: […] of this process. The book is now available as a Penguin Classic. 6 2 refused to work with British mercantile interests – as, for example happened in Egypt in 1882, West Africa in the 1890s, and South Africa at the turn of the century – military power would be used to bring them into […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

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[PDF file]: […] territory of Ukraine, radicalisation of the population, and triggering of infight . American instructors show examples of successful use of social networks used to organise protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.163 The day after Tsaryov’s parliamentary revelations, the Euromaidan began.164 The prime mover was Mustafa Nayem, a former People’s Deputy of the Ukrainian parliament, […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

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[PDF file]: […] involves scores of expert collaborators – anthropologists, archaeologists, historians – in building the world’s largest collection of data on the prosperity and demise of societies from upper Egypt to lower Manhattan. While acknowledging that all findings are inevitably a work in progress, Turchin extrapolates certain cyclical trends in this great collected narrative of human […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] without the Shah. (Miller and Mylroie, 1990) To this end, both Britain and the US endorsed the formation of the Arab Co-operation Council (linking Iraq to Jordan, Egypt and Yemen) despite the fact that this was very obviously an arms procurement conduit for weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, MI6 colluded in the provision of […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] territory of Ukraine, radicalisation of the population, and triggering of infight . American instructors show examples of successful use of social networks used to organise protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.163 The day after Tsaryov’s parliamentary revelations, the Euromaidan began.164 The prime mover was Mustafa Nayem, a former People’s Deputy of the Ukrainian parliament, […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] media to advance positive changes for civil society. This included learning how to switch over Sim cards from mobiles and protect online identities. One attendee was from Egypt: he said he and his fellow activists planned to overthrow President Mubarak through the use of social media.’ 11 Local outreach has become necessary because SIS […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] territory of Ukraine, radicalisation of the population, and triggering of infight . American instructors show examples of successful use of social networks used to organise protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.163 The day after Tsaryov’s parliamentary revelations, the Euromaidan began.164 The prime mover was Mustafa Nayem, a former People’s Deputy of the Ukrainian parliament, […]

Who let the dogs out?

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[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Who let the dogs out? Alpha Dogs How political spin became a global business James Harding London: Atlantic Books, 2008, £9.99 Reviewed by ‘Consultant’ In early 2006, a Nepali citizen was kidnapped by Maoist rebels. He had been carrying out opinion surveys on behalf of (pollster) Stan Greenberg’s US firm, to find […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] territory of Ukraine, radicalisation of the population, and triggering of infight . American instructors show examples of successful use of social networks used to organise protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.163 The day after Tsaryov’s parliamentary revelations, the Euromaidan began.164 The prime mover was Mustafa Nayem, a former People’s Deputy of the Ukrainian parliament, […]

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