[…] in ‘35,900,145,035 known records breached’.17 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 1979/80.18 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 […]
[…] like Mary Poppins meets Adrian Mole. For example, she describes how she travels with a largely American group of Aspen Institute people to meet the Shah of Iran whose ‘father had occupied the throne in a bloodless military coup’. Wasn’t there just a bit more to the CIA’s Operation Ajax than that, Shirley? Or […]
[PDF file]: Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate Jonathan Marshall Note: this article is excerpted from an unpublished book titled Watergate, the American Deep State, and the Legacy of Secret Government by Jonathan Marshall. The Watergate affair of 1972-74, though widely regarded as one of the the gravest […]
[PDF file]: The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam Peter Oborne London: Simon & Schuster, 2022, £25 (h/b) John Booth If you need a revival of spirit and energy this summer, Peter Oborne’s ambitious new book could help top up your political Vitamin D. For in its telling of some of the history […]
[…] in ‘35,900,145,035 known records breached’.17 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 1979/80.18 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 […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* By their omissions . . . Michael Gove, the outgoing Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, passes for an intellectual in today’s Conservative Party. In May he delivered a speech […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: The writer with no hands Matthew Alford www.amazon.co.uk/Writer-No-Hands-MatthewAlford/dp/1530122651 Alford completed a PhD, which became the book Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy (London: Pluto, 2010). His central thesis of that is that large budget, mainstream American movies, ‘….almost always express the notion that in its foreign policy, the endless wars in which it engages, […]
[PDF file]: […] Carlson Tonight’. (p. 127) Even more astonishing, although Meadows does not recount this episode, on another occasion, in June 2019, when Trump was considering air strikes against Iran, the President actually phoned Carlson to ask his advice on whether to go ahead and decided to follow the Fox News correspondent’s urging not to authorise […]
[PDF file]: […] had he continued on this path, one might expect his name to have In Raphael BenLevi, ‘How Competing Schools of Grand Strategy Shape America’s Nonproliferation Policy Toward Iran’, in Texas National Security Review, Summer 2022. or 14 15 16 or 17 5 cropped up as a radical Latin American specialist or even a full-time […]
