Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

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[PDF file]: […] via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, prospered. With trade union connections, friends in the US embassy in London,5 and a safe seat in a ‘traditional Labour heartland’ (features Sedgemore conspicuously lacked throughout his career), Kinnock’s potential was spotted by Callaghan, and, with […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] a telephone kiosk in Bonn in July 1986, West German police had found eight superbly-forged British passports with a genuine Israeli passport and a number of Israeli embassy envelopes. International investigations revealed that the forgeries had been destined for the Israeli embassy in London for use on offensive operations by the Mossad. The Mossad […]

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[…] information war going on in Spain. This was the excuse needed for pressure to be exerted across the Hispanic world to get Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had claimed asylum.11 Klarenberg writes regularly for The Grayzone which is anti-American, antiIsraeli and pro-Russian. The Grayzone’s founder/editor, Max Blumenthal,12 attended the […]

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[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

Ukrainian psyops

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[…] operating on Ukrainian territory. What Nalyvaichenko undoubtedly did have, however, was contacts in Washington DC, established during his time there as a consul to the city’s Ukrainian Embassy. Soon after Nalyvaichenko put forward his tale of mobile crematoriums in Ukraine, it was picked up, parroted, and embellished by two key figures on the US […]

Making America Great

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[PDF file]: […] handed over the federal judiciary (including the Supreme Court) to these people, he has also taken a stand against abortion. Even further, his moving of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem powerfully resonated with their end of times theology. There is a peculiar irony in the evangelical support for Israel because, in their […]

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[…] library. . 19 The excellent Richard Murphy made some similar comments. See or . 20 7 21 Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

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[PDF file]: […] lived with their son Wolf-Rüdiger in the years when her husband was in captivity). The list includes two sons of Roger Chance, press attaché at the British embassy in Berlin in 1938; Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, Liberal MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty 1937-1940; Pamela Baldwin, daughter of the British prime minister; Stewart Blacker, […]

The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

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[PDF file]: […] never cross over…..’ Remember, the US was coming out of Vietnam, and the protests of the Sixties, and Nixon and Watergate. It was headed into the Tehran Embassy crisis, a revolution the trillions of dollars of US intelligence never saw coming, and the fall of our buddy in democracy, the Shah. Jimmy Carter took […]

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[…] library. . 19 The excellent Richard Murphy made some similar comments. See or . 20 7 21 Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

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