[PDF file]: The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism Michael Carlson D iscussing the recently released Senate report on American torture, my friend Michael Goldfarb quoted Senator Frank Church, speaking when his Senate committee’s report was issued in 1975,1 in the wake of the Rockefeller and Pike reports, the latter not released but leaked by Daniel Schorr […]
[PDF file]: […] support Trump has among the police across the US. And, once again, as Frum points out, polling has shown that most Americans (76 percent) opposed war with Iran, including ‘63 percent of Republicans’. (p. 171) More generally, he hopes that the Republican Party, that ‘has morphed under Trump into a party of white ethnic […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Oh boy . . . There’s a man called John Robles, an American by birth, some time presenter at the Russian government’s Voice of Russia World Service in English.1 He has self-published […]
[PDF file]: […] of the friends of Israel in Washington DC.1 Hundreds of members of the US Congress afforded Israel’s prime minister repeated standing ovations for assertively undermining their president’s Iran nuclear deal.2 Anyone with a weather eye to the West could forecast what was to descend on the peace-campaigning MP for Islington North. If the US […]
[PDF file]: […] him of the Cielo murders, ninety minutes before Tate’s maid arrived at the scene and discovered the carnage. At Bugliosi’s behest Whitson threatened Hatami with deportation to Iran – to force him to give false testimony at the trial that he had seen Manson at the property looking for Terry Melcher five months earlier. […]
[PDF file]: […] memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw him a year or so ago, […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]
[PDF file]: […] being forced to compromise in Korea – a considerable psychological blow for white supremacy – the US began a successful season of imperial expansion: inter alia returning Iran to the control of the oil cartel and Guatemala to United Fruit. Nationalist movements in Ghana and Congo were subdued.2 5 With the exception of Puerto […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]
[PDF file]: […] some serious political fallout for both countries. But it is hard to argue that helping Israel in this way contributes to U.S. national security at a time when the U.S. demands openness in the nuclear activities of Iran, North Korea, Syria, and all other countries who may be engaged in clandestine weapon related nuclear activities.’
