Iraq – fallout continues ‘Five years on from Hutton and we still haven’t been told the truth about the war based on lies’, fulminated Peter Oborne earlier this year. (1) Also less than happy was barrister Michael Shrimpton who unsuccessfully complained to Ofcom about an interview he gave for David Kelly: the conspiracy files, (2) […]
Jackboots and Sporran: the strange world of Robert Gayre Kevin Koogan in ANARCHY No.38 (Box A 84b Whitechapel High St., London E1 7QX) This is fascinating stuff, the history of some of the more obscure corners in the neo-nazi American/European right-wing since WW2. But it has an odd feel to it, as if it were […]
[…] The article makes a clear attempt to spin its material towards Iranian intransigence and away from the U.S. side of the network (which, according to Edmonds, includes Israel, Turkey and Pakistan as key players and partners), making the accidental admission almost comical. Exposition of some of the U.S. responses to Edmonds is essential as […]
Srebrenica In Lobster 46 I noted that the publisher of Cees Wiebes’ Intelligence and the War in Bosnia 1992-1995 had declined to supply a review copy. Mr Wiebes subsequently informed me that the full report on Srebrenica, commissioned by the Dutch government, including the material which made up his book, is on-line, in English, at […]
[…] to withdraw that support. If Nick Cohen is a sell-out then so am I. When Peter Hitchens accuses the SWP of anti-Semitism, questions the absurd idea that Israel is responsible for all of the problems of the Middle East and slams the Left for defining Hizbullah as freedom fighters, he is right. At its […]
Contents Israel, the lobby and its critics If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew Mike Marqusee London and Brooklyn: Verso, £9.99 (UK) 137 Winter 2010 ‘This Time We Went Too Far’: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion Norman G. Finkelstein New York: O R Books, £12 War Crimes in […]
[PDF file]: […] ISBN 9781682191149 John Booth In the swirl of controversy over ‘Labour’s anti-Semitism problem’ that has followed Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader in 2015, the complex subject of Israel and Palestine has rarely featured in popular discussion. These three books offer those who wish to move beyond this largely faux confection more understanding of an […]
[…] thus the true arcana imperii of the British state) closed to historical inquiry. A readers guide to the Balfour Declaration Because anything pertaining to the state of Israel is so obviously controversial, there is a huge body of literature, just on the Balfour Declaration alone. What follows (Section 2) deals mainly with the British […]
[…] ‘even-handed’ approach taken by Henry Kissinger and Nixon during the 1973 Israeli war with the Arabs, the Israeli lobby set about remaking US foreign policy to protect Israel. This involved first recreating the Soviet Union as the big bad wolf (Cold War 2). As Curtis showed, this entailed the wholesale fabrication of a renewed […]
[…] in Southern Iraq, I was informed. Heavy casualties resulted. The operation, directed by the Central Intelligence Agency, was a counter-strike, following an Iraqi Scud that fell on Israel. The missile had contained Sarin. Fuming, the Israelis had prepared to detonate a nuclear warhead high above Baghdad. Only the swift intervention of President George Bush […]
