The deep politics of a hybrid regime1 Garrick Alder 1: A Psyop on the People One recurring phrase in commentary about the 2019 election of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is: ‘It was a case of life imitating art.’ After all, runs the boilerplate patter, Zelensky starred in a TV series about an obscure nobody who […]
[PDF file]: […] can be confident that the peace that will follow the conflict will be an improvement over the pre-war situation’. Using these criteria, he considers military intervention in Libya and Syria as not being in US interests. Instead, the US should follow ‘a light-footprint policy of sending advisers and equipment in support of people fighting […]
The deep politics of a hybrid regime1 Garrick Alder 1: A Psyop on the People One recurring phrase in commentary about the 2019 election of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is: ‘It was a case of life imitating art.’ After all, runs the boilerplate patter, Zelensky starred in a TV series about an obscure nobody who […]
[PDF file]: […] had replaced the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East after World War One. The British sold weapons to the governments of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Libya and trained their armed forces. At the end of World War Two all these countries apart from Saudi Arabia were members of the Sterling Area, a […]
[…] the Manchester arena bombing but even I knew that the father of the youth who planted the bomb had links to the British state’s covert role in Libya. This was bound to be dodged by the inquiry into the event, if only to avoid embarrassing the Americans with whom the British state (as usual) […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must, Garrick Alder and Sally Walker for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. Just another Texas murder? CovertAction Magazine has an essay by its editor, Jeremy Kuzamarov, on the murders which accompanied LBJ’s rise to power.1 The essay is very good, throughly documented. Just […]
[PDF file]: […] we seem to have emerging as the new US strategy is a determination to disengage itself from direct military involvement regardless of the consequences on the ground. Libya, Syria, Iraq and soon Afghanistan will bear testimony to this strategy. Obama has chosen instead a strategy of supposed precision intervention by special forces and drone […]
[…] the Manchester arena bombing but even I knew that the father of the youth who planted the bomb had links to the British state’s covert role in Libya. This was bound to be dodged by the inquiry into the event, if only to avoid embarrassing the Americans with whom the British state (as usual) […]
[PDF file]: […] Portugal 16%, Germany 18%, Japan 21% and Russia 22%. A study of major and/or western nations shows that only Montenegro, Pakistan, Eire, Swaziland, Cuba, Turkmenistan, Angola, Malawi, Libya and Iraq invest less in their own economies than the UK. The announcements now being made about a UK economic recovery (the definition of which is […]
[…] the Manchester arena bombing but even I knew that the father of the youth who planted the bomb had links to the British state’s covert role in Libya. This was bound to be dodged by the inquiry into the event, if only to avoid embarrassing the Americans with whom the British state (as usual) […]
