[…] Deacon, both of whom had close connections to the British intelligence services, the anxieties about Harold Wilson seem to have been: 1. He was too close to Israel at a time when the “oil weapon” was in the hands of the Arabs. (88) 2. The Labour Party in power might cut defence spending, and […]
[PDF file]: […] money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting my experience aside, I find Mattinson’s reasoning – ‘how New Labour stopped listening to the […]
[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]: […] advocate the principles of the UN Charter and sovereign internationalism. An example of this is the action of South Africa in bringing a charge of genocide against Israel to the International Court of Justice over its invasion of, and conduct in, Gaza. There is no question that, as Sakwa argues, the nations of the […]
[PDF file]: […] of dark supernatural forces and their earthly allies’. Much of this was Orthodox Christian propaganda example – an example being that the Antichrist had been born in Israel in 1962. There are many similarities with the thinking of elements of the US Christian Right, except that where the Americans generally saw the Jews as […]
[PDF file]: […] thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues.’ A […]
[…] seems to me to have been resolved in favour of their being a psy-op,13 a conclusion supported by the fact that they were evacuated from Syria to Israel. * new * Chips with everything14 In a review in Lobster 52 I wrote this about a then new book15 about the threat of RFID chips: […]
[PDF file]: […] Brown and Balls apparently learning their light-touch regulation from Larry Summers, one of those in the Clinton years keenest to abolish Glass-Steagall. He pays less attention to Israel among the offshore lobbies, but explains well the general vulnerability of these largely post-manufacturing islands to pressures and influences – some of them extending beyond his […]
[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 […]
