[…] National Endowment for Democracy, which, as Blum notes elsewhere in the book, does overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. The day after the coup, the Pentagon announced that it was ‘kinda delighted’ that ‘all of a sudden’ their ships could go to Fiji. Blum doesn’t note a short article that appeared in […]
Greg Palast New York: Dutton, 2006, $25.95, h/b Another whizzer from Palast. It’s content is similar in a general sense to his previous one, The Best Democracy That Money Can Buy: the corruption and power of the global corporations; the venality of politicians (and the incompetence and cowardice of the Democrats in particular); ‘the … Read more
[…] socialist administration is sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-NATO noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek-coup computer model will be getting a spin.’ In the event it was not the Greek coup program but the financial scandal model, previously used […]
[…] () Running parallel to the hearts and minds campaign to win over Islamic opinion, was America’s Long War announcement, an attack advert – otherwise known as a Pentagon strategy review – warning citizens/external audiences about the Long War ahead.() Doom-laden, it went head-to-head with China’s emerging Harmony PR, a sort of Confucius-moderne philosophy.() Beating […]
[PDF file]: […] examples on the Net, 31 ‘Case Study 2’ (see note 16) periods of drought or storm’,3 2 about which the Vietnamese knew all too well. After the Pentagon Papers leak, Seymour Hersh revealed in the New York Times that America had been manipulating the weather in Vietnam in order to cause floods. The project […]
[…] also claimed the land and opposed the move. DEMOGRAPHICS OF HISTORIC PALESTINE PRIOR TO 1948 https://www.cjpme.org/fs_007 https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/leaked-chinese-documentreveals-a-sinister-plan-to-unleash-coronaviruses/news-story/ 53674e8108ad5a655e07e990daa85465 https://www.rt.com/russia/523956-regime-change-belarus-prank/ NED blown by prank call. Big stuff. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9536053/Pentagon-whistleblowerwarns-UFO-intelligence-failure-level-9-11.html Pentagon whistleblower warns that report on military sightings of UFOs could reveal US has been ‘leapfrogged technologically by a foreign adversary’ in intelligence failure ‘on par with […]
[PDF file]: […] to those of the Middle East, further emphasizing the continent’s strategic importance.’1 Unlike its mega-embassies and military bases in Iraq, Kosovo, and other strategically important locations, the Pentagon has smaller, mobile bases across Africa. The Congressional report tells us that these ‘facilities as “lily pads”, or Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs), and access to locations […]
[PDF file]: […] – the ‘ideological paradigm for American media and political culture’ – is a case in point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every turn in a […]
[…] – the ‘ideological paradigm for American media and political culture’ – is a case in point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, 141 Summer 2010 disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every […]
[PDF file]: […] with Iran, Cameron appointed right-winger Liam Fox as Minister of Defence precisely to pursue exactly the same kind of privatisation agenda pursued by Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon from 2000. (Klein, 2007, pp. 293-305) While Rumsfeld was saved from the Joint Chiefs of Staff by 9/11, it was this privatising zeal that led Liam […]
