Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes

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[PDF file]: […] have similar characteristics to the Karzai regime in the sense that they are little more than ‘criminal organizations’, despoiling their own countries. She discusses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Uzbekistan and Nigeria as variations on this theme. They are all ‘kleptocracies’ facing Islamist challenges. The regime the US put in place in Iraq is another […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

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[PDF file]: […] within that covert operations wing. They formed ‘the Safari club’ and resumed their activities entirely off the books with their equivalents from the intelligence services of France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Iran. This was funded by the Saudis; and, Scott thinks, largely by the mechanism of skimming off the enormous American arms sales […]

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 Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

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[PDF file]: […] status, and ‘dialogue partners’ include Turkey (an arrangement which may well have assisted in Ankara’s mediation efforts during the course of the current Russo-Ukrainian war), Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Qatar and Sri Lanka.7 By 2024 the SCO’s members, observers and ‘dialogue partners’ embraced half of the world’s population. A network of […]

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, […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

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[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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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