[…] contact Defend the Kurds in Britain and Europe Campaign, 0171 250 1315. Funny, flexible old thing, the concept of ‘Europe’. In the Eurovision Song Contest, ‘Europe’ includes Israel; and NATO member Turkey is apparently going to join the European Union. Chipping away Chip Berlet is a sort of American Gerry Gable: while formally monitoring […]
[…] for foreign services. According to his admirers, Goleniewski’s leads and information led to the capture of a small army of Soviet ‘moles’ in Britain, Sweden, West Germany, Israel, Denmark and France. His most important catch was the high ranking MI6 official George Blake, whose unmasking led in turn to the exposure of Kim Philby, […]
[…] oil supplies; to allow the US to evacuate its troops from Saudi Arabia, thereby removing a point of anti-American rage; to destroy an important regional threat to Israel; to make sure that Saddam could not acquire the capacity for nuclear blackmail after, France, Germany and other countries dismantled the UN embargo; to express America’s […]
[…] Convention and US and multilateral export controls in addressing the proliferation of biological weapons. Findings include 1) many critical countries are not members of the BWC, (including Israel, Syria and Egypt; but Iraq is a member) and 2) compliance measures are ineffective, with more countries developing BW today than when the Convention was created […]
[…] lead across the ocean to the Pentagon and the CIA of the USA ….” (familiar lines).One of the conspirators, Zellier, had specifically mentioned Portugal, South Africa and Israel as supporters of the putsch. This prompted Challe to add that he would much prefer something else – the support of the US. But General Georges […]
[…] caught in a rabbit-hole/on trial; or, whenever it happens, a captured Osama Bin Laden. Like The Passion, they fit snugly beneath the Middle East’s ‘arch’ – America/Britain/ Israel – a.k.a. ‘The Great Satan’. They are nourished by memories of the ancient loveliness of Palestine’s bulldozed olive groves, along with the villagers and villages they […]
[…] maintaining the existence of a ‘fascist threat’ has been the Israeli lobby. Crudely, a post-war fascist threat in Europe helped legitimize the existence of the state of Israel. Both strands come together in Searchlight. Publisher Gerry Gable was a CPGB member, and Searchlight‘s ‘European Correspondent’, Graeme Atkinson, worked for the party’s paper, the Morning […]
[…] Kenya (1952-1956 by General Sir Frank Kitson) and Cyprus (1955-1959). Looked at in a cold historical and political context the Zionist founders of the modern state of Israel come across very badly; while the EOKA group appear to be dismal irredentists basking in the kind of exaggerated nationalism recently seen with lethal consequences across […]
[…] he was recalled to Moscow, although Mandy Rice-Davies (who is not reliable) recounts a different tale. In 1977 two men interviewed her about the Profumo Affair in Israel, where she lived for a time. At first they claimed to be journalists from Time magazine; then private investigators. Eventually one of them said “I was […]
[…] issues.’ pp. 550/1 So-called triangulation, learned from the Democrats. 2002 ‘Murdoch was coming in for dinner….Murdoch was at one point putting the traditional very right-wing view on Israel and the Middle East peace process……Murdoch said he didn’t see what the Palestinians’ problem was….’ p. 603 The world’s largest owner of media doesn’t know what […]
