[…] as one of ‘destabilisation’. This was a new term but the tactics were mostly tried and trusted variations on a theme already played successfully for example in Iran, Guatemala, Ecuador, and British Guiana over the preceding generation. (6) For years it has been said that the CIA was implicated in the fall of Allende […]
9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror Ian Henshall and Rowland Morgan London: Robinson, 2005; £8.99, p/b A declaration of a kind of interest: one of the authors of this book, Ian Henshall, is the Chair of INK, the Independent News Collective, to which Lobster belongs and whose leaflets Lobster has […]
[…] for years with his old pal Richard Perle from their base at the American Enterprise Institute for a war on Iraq and now for similar intervention in Iran and Syria. Ledeen was a regular contributor on terrorism and the defence of Ariel Sharon’s Israel in The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator when Conrad Black […]
[…] — Middle Easterners discern them in the merest accidents….. neglecting conspiracy theories can lead to a profound misreading of that region….’. He declares that ‘The shah of Iran and Anwar as-Sadat lost their countrymen’s respect because both were (wrongly) seen as agents of Washington.’ Wrongly, huh? Depends on how he is using ‘agent’. Do […]
[…] overthrown by British and CIA terrorism in order to secure the flow of cheap sugar and bauxite. That was a busy year. The elected nationalist government in Iran met the same fate; claiming ownership of the nation’s oil resources was beyond the pale.(24) British governments supported repression and killing in Uganda, Chile and South […]
In an article in the Journal of Popular Culture, (1) one of the editors of the Jonestown Report considers the role that conspiracy theories have played in the unfolding narrative of ‘Jonestown’. It is a worthwhile endeavour to which few scholars could bring better credentials. Rebecca Moore is a professor of religious studies at the […]
[…] major Soviet effort to establish sympathetic regimes and subvert pro-Western rulers. This meant close cooperation with the Israeli intelligence and security services and helping the Shah of Iran to build up his SAVAK, while making use of MI6 Arabic-speaking officers to alert Gulf rulers to the danger of Soviet activities. Young developed a personal […]
[…] route they sabotaged Jimmy Carter in the same way that Nixon had sabotaged Hubert Humphrey in 1968: by doing a political deal with America’s notional enemies ( Iran in Carter’s case; North Vietnam in Humphrey’s) to prevent Democratic success in the run-up to the presidential elections. In a sense, as Scott acknowledges, this is […]
[…] of brutality and incompetence. In this version, the CIA was never any good, even in its early years. Even its early successes, the coups it ran in Iran and Guatemala, were close-run things, with the Agency and its allies/proxies more or less staggering over the finishing line, just ahead of chaos and failure; and […]
[…] prepared to withdraw and both Afghan government and rebel forces geared up for the battle which will decide which bloc Afghanistan will follow. After the fall of Iran, Pakistan became America’s vital staging post for covert intervention in the Indian sub-continent and the pivotal point for clandestine military assistance to the Afghan rebels – […]
