[…] state is taking steps to counter it. Hence, in part, the formation of the state-sponsored youth group Nashi (Russian for ‘Our’).(6) Similar activities are taking place in Iran. Hence the arrest, earlier this year, of Iranian academics with links to American-funded organisations.(7)Similar techniques are being used in South America.(8)Little of this is secret: the […]
[…] Agency and retired a General in 1976. 1953 The General admits to being involved in the coup against Mossadegh which resulted in the Shah taking over in Iran. 1960-62 Military attache in Rome, helping CIA distribute funds to right-wing parties. 1964 In Brazil. Described as “lynchpin” in General Branco’s bloody coup against Goulart. Branco […]
[…] British Government to the Americans’ in MI6’s house journal, The Sunday Telegraph (9 July 2006). What that ‘kow-towing’ looks like was illustrated in ‘Blair beefed up his Iran speech to please Bush’ (Sunday Telegraph 28 May 2006) in which Toby Harnden and Patrick Hennessy reported: ‘Tony Blair made significant changes to one of his […]
[…] such instance, the September 11, 2001 attacks are another. Operations can fail as with the Bay of Pigs or succeed only too well Guatemala, Iran, Congo their unforeseen consequences bringing disaster for the locals or the masters of the operatives. Counterintelligence can fail to find spies Aldrich Ames […]
Robert Parry Arlington (VA): The Media Consortium, 2004; $22.95 (US); p/b Order from This is the book I have enjoyed most since the last Lobster and it is one of the best books I have read on American politics and parapolitics. Robert Parry really is very good indeed: he has the serious investigative journalist’s […]
[…] advance of Hamas and Hezbollah, the wreckage of Iraq, with more than two million external refugees and the ethnic cleansing of its Christian population, the rise of Iran as a major regional power, and now the implosion of Afghanistan and Pakistan, prob-ably the most dangerous development of all.’ But for whom has this been […]
[…] the party massacre, ‘no one dared to question anything. This meant that the regime of Saddam Hussein acquired infallibility through fear and silence.’ (p. 50) War with Iran was Saddam Hussein’s second mistake. Egged on by the West, both sides prodigiously expended blood and treasure. Peace in 1988 was closely followed by widespread circulation […]
Advertising In 1960s Iraq, the children of the poor carried their most treasured possessions to school in much coveted, branded soap-powder packets. When these eventually disintegrated, what remained was stuck up on the classroom wall. As a result, children could pick out the words ‘Tide’ or ‘Omo’. Praised by their teacher for doing so, a […]
[…] London, 1993). Crozier speaks highly of General Douglas Brown, manager of the trust in the late 1970s, who was able to facilitate contacts with the Shah of Iran at the time when Iran was on the brink of revolution (p. 157). General Brown also gave a crucial £50,000 donation to Crozier’s Institute for the […]
[…] in references to any New World Order. It is unlikely that Foreign and Commonwealth Office bureaucrats would advise anything as stupid or reckless as an invasion of Iran. In fact, the FCO is likely to favour involving Iran in the running of Basra. However, the proliferation of influential think tanks in the private sector […]
