[…] and the election of Barack Obama seem to have punctured the efforts of Netanyahu to use the ‘war on terror’ mindset and network that took us into Iraq into launching a war upon Iran. But if he succeeds in that effort, we will see whether the Community Security Trust and the Board of Deputies […]
[…] to write this: ‘as long as support to autocratic Arab regimes and Israel continues unabated, Washington’s rhetoric about freedom and democracy carries little conviction. (p. 61)……… As Iraq testifies, there is probably not enough soft power around to compensate for the friction of war.’ (p. 64) Which about as tough as these essays get. […]
[…] Middle East and European affairs), Russell believes that the CIA’s intelligence was more accurate than that of the defence establishment. Richard L. Russell, ‘CIA’s strategic intelligence in Iraq’, Political Science Quarterly, 117 (2) (Summer 2002), pp 191-207. Also available in full at < http:// www.psqonline. org/ >. Deep Throat Uncovered? At a conference held […]
[…] and my involvement declined from being branch secretary and local election agent to being just another inactive member, unable to cut the cord. I eventually resigned over Iraq. A conspiracy theorist? Much of the content of this book would be described as conspiracy theories by the major media. I would reject that – and […]
[…] Notice, by the way, how even critics of the White House/Downing Street information campaign rarely use the term conspiracy theory in the context of the Al Qaeda/ Iraq fantasy.) Nor are the mainstream media entirely immune from the all-explaining global conspiracy that they rightly denounce when cooked up by non-professionals or political enemies. The […]
[…] are, in fact, distinct and competitive ways of seeing and operating. They overlap in some places (in the war against terrorism) and they conflict in others (over Iraq). Conflicts continue and are inevitable. I explore a theory of why this is below. A new consensus Three conservative models are starting to converge, with, as […]
[…] were involved in, or claim to have been involved in, the various intelligence scandals of the Reagan/Bush years: October Surprise, Inslaw, BCCI, the arming of Iran and Iraq. And so Stich begins to learn about Mossad operations; factions within the CIA; assassination squads; drug dealing on a massive scale; corrupt politicians, judges etc. etc. […]
[…] the Baath party. Today, the Arabs are no longer afraid…… The old Sharon policy into which the American neo-conservatives so fatally bought before the 2003 invasion of Iraq – of beating the Arabs till they come to heel or until they “behave” or until an Arab leader can be found “to control his own […]
[…] the Mersey The largely publicly funded career of another Lord Levy associate, Stephen Twigg (Lobsters passim), continues with news from Liverpool that he is to replace local Iraq war opponent Bob Wareing in West Derby, a constituency with which the director of the Foreign Policy Centre had no previous connection. Twigg will be a […]
[…] ground. I noted it was a coincidence that whenever Blair got into deep trouble, we had a terrorist alert tanks at Heathrow three days before the Iraq anti-war march; the fertiliser-bomb raid in Middlesex the day Beverley Hughes was forced to resign, and the Manchester arrests on EU U-turn day.’ And what happened? […]
