[…] film the official version that all the shots came from behind Kennedy became an absurdity. After ‘the lobby’ films no-one can seriously deny the existence of the Israel lobby. The future of Britain’s crisis30 The House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is a light veneer of accountability for the UK’s spooks to hide […]
[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]: […] on one hand, the ally of America as its biggest customer for weapons and backer of the dollar, and on the other its enemy as America sustains Israel. Add to which the Saudi state’s use of its oil wealth to export its version of Islam world-wide, the CIA’s use of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan, […]
[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]: […] Labour Party leader and prime minister without the inconvenience of a contest for either 17 The easy choice was to go with the US on Iraq and Israel – particularly if you want a subsequent life on the US lecture circuit. 18 Between 2001 and 2005 Blair considered and rejected setting up a separate […]
[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]: […] Godson, a former member of the Reagan administration, whose brother and father have also been key figures in US-UK relations. He also steers clear of the pro- Israel lobby which, to this reviewer, is an important addition to the Establishment of the 1950s described by Fairlie, Thomas et al. To write of Neil (now […]
[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 […]
[…] apparently learning their light-touch regulation from Larry Summers, one of those in the Clinton years keenest to abolish Glass-Steagall. He pays less 192 Summer 2010 attention to Israel among the offshore lobbies, but explains well the general vulnerability of these largely postmanufacturing islands to pressures and influences – some of them extending beyond his […]
[PDF file]: […] restore Euro-American control over China’s economy.20 Whether relative sanity in the US or the extremism of the Lobby itself (in its day almost as powerful as the Israel lobby today) prevented outright war is a matter of dispute. The psychological impact of ‘losing China’ certainly enhanced the status of the emergent national security state […]
