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[…] 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, […]

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[…] the intelligence community, and President Biden, all of whom, notes Glenn Greenwald, have declared that “the gravest menace to American national security” is not Russia, ISIS, China, Iran, or North Korea, but “‘domestic extremists’ in general—and far-right white supremacist groups in particular.” The new information regulators failed to win over vaccine skeptics, convince MAGA […]

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[…] on reform of the spooks https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-10-15-transparency-britainsunaccountable-intelligence-agencies-could-be-held-to-account-heres-how/ Integrety Initiative https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/12/the-strange-mind-of-christophernigel-donnelly.html Subject: Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel… https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-07-03-revealed-hundreds-ofsaudi-and-gulf-military-personnel-trained-in-britain-as-yemen-war-continues/ what goes around comes around – eventually. 61 Iran coup prog. tape interview published https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/dc.html?doc=7033886-National-Security-Archive Well, I mean, look, I think what he should be saying is that we become beholden to China to the […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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 […]

My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown

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[PDF file]: […] with Israel and Saudi Arabia, to attempt to establish complete domination over the Middle East. First Iraq would be dealt with to be followed by Syria and Iran, without forgetting Hamas and Hizbullah. This was the project that New Labour bought into. The only dispute with the Americans was over how to justify this […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] omissions . . . . Bubbles Consortiumnews carried an interesting piece by Patrick Lawrence on the death of Moorhead Kennedy Jr., one of the U.S. hostages in Iran in 1979/80.69 Kennedy Jnr.’s experience as a hostage led him to understand and empathise with his Iranian captors and, on his return to the US, he […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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.’

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] significant world role and the current US leadership is not overly bothered if the UK is its ally or not in its various tribulations with North Korea, Iran and Russia. Instead, we are left with the thought that the couple of weeks of intrigue that ‘did’ for Eden were essentially a coup carried out […]

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[…] the intelligence community, and President Biden, all of whom, notes Glenn Greenwald, have declared that “the gravest menace to American national security” is not Russia, ISIS, China, Iran, or North Korea, but “‘domestic extremists’ in general—and far-right white supremacist groups in particular.” The new information regulators failed to win over vaccine skeptics, convince MAGA […]

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[…] omissions . . . . Bubbles Consortiumnews carried an interesting piece by Patrick Lawrence on the death of Moorhead Kennedy Jr., one of the U.S. hostages in Iran in 1979/80.69 Kennedy Jnr.’s experience as a hostage led him to understand and empathise with his Iranian captors and, on his return to the US, he […]

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