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Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn
[PDF file]: Malevolent incompetence Chaos and Caliphate Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East Patrick Cockburn London and New York: O/R Books, 2016, £19/$28, p/b The first striking thing about this book is that the author survived long enough to write it. Cockburn has spent nearly 20 years years, mostly in the Middle […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been the collapse of […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] when it comes to doing hatchet jobs on people who are a threat to the powers-that-be. He spent years distorting what Colin Wallace was saying, rehashing the MOD line on him, and ignoring all the evidence – lots of it from me – which showed that what the MOD had been saying was disinformation.81 […]
Everybody now loves widgets!
[PDF file]: […] their fixation on international neo-con economics can take a running jump. And how likely is that? 7 Even in defence procurement. New regulations from the EU came into force last year. They are summarised by the MOD at Reporting on this, the Financial Times article was headed ‘MoD will no longer favour UK companies’. 8
A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes
[PDF file]: […] article in the New Statesman in November 1984 and amplified by Tam Dalyell MP. Pursuing the Belgrano issue, and prompted by leaks from Clive Ponting at the MoD, Dalyell was misinformed by one of his sources (unidentified) about Green’s actual role during the Falklands War and suggested in the Commons that Murrell had been […]
Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher
View from the bridge
[…] Air Services (SAS), and secured access to the Foreign Office’s Information and Research Department, which has historically been used as a cover Department for M16 agents. The MOD gave the RFA a grant to pass on to RPOC. Now, Pincher claims, the Labour government are worried that their supporters will find out that the […]
View from the bridge
[…] Air Services (SAS), and secured access to the Foreign Office’s Information and Research Department, which has historically been used as a cover Department for M16 agents. The MOD gave the RFA a grant to pass on to RPOC. Now, Pincher claims, the Labour government are worried that their supporters will find out that the […]