[PDF file]: […] for countering that. He chairs the watchdog Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA).21 But he also does some lobbying himself as chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel group in the House of Lords.22 Perhaps it was to Pickles and his ilk that Millett directed part of his closing statement: ‘True regret is not […]
[PDF file]: […] it wasn’t worth trying at all. The idea of slowly developing your own deterrent, as and when funds are available (the approach followed by France, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea and Iran(?)) doesn’t appear to have been entertained, with a radical short-termism preferred instead. countries, and, the death penalty is no longer in […]
[PDF file]: […] broadcasting. A core part of his creed was that the white citizens of the US, UK and British Commonwealth were the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel and therefore entitled, according to Biblical prophesy, to inherit the Earth. Armstrong and the Radio Church of God also took the view that the coming Armageddon […]
[PDF file]: Excusing the Iraq war? Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence Frank P. Harvey Cambridge University Press, 2011, £20.99, p/b At a particularly fractious press call in June 2003, an exasperated George W. Bush declared: ‘This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq….. Now, there are some who like to […]
[PDF file]: […] with similar capitalised text in poor English. The one sent to Brokaw read as follows: 09-11-01 THIS IS NEXT TAKE PENACILIN NEXT DEATH TO AMERICA DEATH TO ISRAEL ALLAH IS GREAT But it quickly became clear that the sophistication of the identified Ames strain of anthrax in the letters meant it could only come […]
[PDF file]: Scott Newton Nairn and Marx Tom Nairn, who died in January, was one of the most powerful and perceptive political theorists of our time. He was a Marxian whose writings often appeared in journals such as New Left Review and The London Review of Books, as well as in books such as The Break-Up of […]
[PDF file]: […] with Tehran. To achieve this, he ordered the CIA to set up a network of legitimate companies across Europe and the Middle East, in particular Britain and Israel, in order to secretly supply illegal arms to Iran. The main British company, called Allivane International, was set up at Cumbernauld near Glasgow with CIA money […]
[PDF file]: […] during the Corbyn years. There are some who merely changed tack: Sir Trevor Chinn, a leading light in the Jewish community and backer of Labour Friends of Israel, for example. In 2020 he was a big funder of Starmer’s leadership campaign, as well as backing other party luminaries like Tom Watson, who relentlessly sought […]
[PDF file]: […] left. Bower also expends a great deal of his narrative (as have the mainstream media) on a detailed poking about in Corbyn’s support for Palestine, antipathy towards Israel (as presently constituted, at any rate) and alleged difficulties with anti-semitism. This may be what sells books but, by default, it means that wider issues are […]
[PDF file]: […] owned overseas. See the review by John Booth at or . 13 5 Dallas again 1) a correction In the previous issue, in this column under subhead Israel and Dallas, I stated ‘All we know for sure is that Angleton’s department of the CIA was reading Oswald’s mail in America after his return from […]
