Murder in Cairo Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo with Leni Gillman London: Biteback Publishing, 2025, h/b, £20 Andrew Rosthorn This book is not to be missed. It has taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get quite close to finding out who ordered the killing […]
[PDF file]: […] had past ‘issues’, not least in the case of David Mills (the late Tessa Jowell’s ex-husband) and his ‘attempts to clinch a $200 million aircraft deal’ with Iran, which ‘was in danger of falling foul of US sanctions’.19 Taylor, Ann Former Chief Whip Taylor’s register entry tells us that she is a ‘Member of […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] number of times a nation has been in breach of UN 1 resolutions. In this context, Israel finds itself alongside the likes of North Korea, Russia and Iran, all of which may reasonably be described as rogue states.2 Loewenstein’s book is clearly an indictment – the charge being that Israel unscrupulously peddles military hardware […]
[PDF file]: […] at best. We are told that Saddam Hussein ‘ rebellion among the Arabs of neighboring Khuzestan an easy and cheap way to undermine the ayatollah and destabilize Iran’; that ‘Bands of Iranian Arabs were trained in Iraq, armed, and sent back across the border’; and ‘These Arab guerrillas saw themselves as fighters for independence, […]
[PDF file]: […] hers as ‘waterboarding is how we’d baptise terrorists’ (p. 178), McCain on occasion sang from the same hymn sheet, indeed actually sang ‘Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran’ to the tune of the Beach Boys ‘Barbara Ann’ to appreciative audiences. McCain certainly repudiated claims that Obama was a Muslim, but his campaign, courtesy of […]
[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.’
[…] 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 […]
[…] at best. We are told that Saddam Hussein ‘ rebellion among the Arabs of neighboring Khuzestan an easy and cheap way to undermine the ayatollah and destabilize Iran’; that ‘Bands of Iranian Arabs were trained in Iraq, armed, and sent back across the border’; and ‘These Arab guerrillas saw themselves as fighters for independence, […]
[PDF file]: […] attempt to do this in Korea had failed; leaving it with only one choice — permanent military occupation. The CIA, certainly guided by its numerous successes in Iran, Latin America, and Africa, undertook the ambitious task of manufacturing not only a client regime, but a whole country. The Company drew on its vast repertoire […]
