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[…] Washington bigwigs, the leaders of a group of former Soviet bloc satellites trying to curry favour with America, Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic, Natan Sharansky of Israel and Carl Bildt, the prime minister of Sweden, the committee was closed down in 2003 because its human rights rationale for the war had been abandoned […]
[…] training and advice, intelligence from NSA etc. etc. Pipes continues, stuffing his other foot into his mouth. On the one hand: ‘Much of the region’s anti-Western, anti- Israel, anti-democratic, anti-moderate and anti-modern behavior results from fears of clandestine forces….’ On the other hand: ‘Western leaders have to act with special propriety to shed a […]
[…] in practice, there was Searchlight and Labour Research. Pursuing its aim of amplifying the fascist ‘threat’ to bolster support for and the legitimacy of, the state of Israel, Searchlight was then pushing the idea that the Tories had been infiltrated by a barely disguised group of semi-fascists. This climaxed with the ‘Maggie’s Militants’ edition […]
[…] a difficult year for Brandt. During the Yom Kippur war, after an outcry in the German press, the Federal Republic refused to allow arms to travel to Israel from United States bases in Germany. Brandt explained that “we expressly protested against the use of our territory without notification, let alone consultation, as if NATO […]
[…] for the Study of Terrorism (Wilkinson). Non-UK groups include the Centre for Conflict Studies and Mackenzie Institute in Canada (Charters/Tugwell), the Jonathan Institute and Jaffee Centre in Israel; and in America, the Georgetown CSIS, Heritage Foundation, American Security Council (Singlaub/Stilwell), the International Security Council (Moonies), the Nathan Hale Institute and Rand Corporation. It also […]
[…] for several hours. She was a political exile with refugee status from the Home Office. An architect, she had stumbled across some big scam being run in Israel and had been forced to leave. The story was long and complicated. I’ve now forgotten most of it. She had piles of documents. She claimed that […]
[…] attempted to found a small community church near Pyongyang, without much success. He then joined a mystical sect in the southern Korean province of Kyong Ki-do called Israel Suo-won, whose tenets foreshadowed both his later theological principles, particularly in their emphasis upon the imminent appearance of a Korean messiah, and his ritual practice of […]
[…] The Independent Institute, exposed as a business lobby in the New York Times when leaked documents showed that Microsoft secretly funded their research.(22) A member of The Israel Center for Social & Economic Progress (ICSEP) run by Daniel Doran (former Israeli intelligence and special consultant to the US Embassy in Tel Aviv). The US […]
[…] is rarely far away (see Lobster 47). To complete the picture, we should also mention that MacShane is on the policy council of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) whose chair in the House of Lords is old MI6 hand Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale. LFI It proved to be a heavy security presence in […]
