[PDF file]: […] alleged anti-semitism.68 In a previous life Smeeth worked for BICOM, the Londonbased Israel lobby organisation, and was named as a ‘strictly protect’ source in a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks.69 Both Aaronovitch and Smeeth have been frequent contributors to the Jewish Chronicle, a paper repeatedly found breaking defamation laws and publishing codes as […]
[PDF file]: […] . . . . corruption soon became a defining feature of the government’. As early as September 2005, Ronald Neumann, the then U.S. Ambassador, sent a classified cable to Washington, warning of a ‘corruption crisis’ that was ‘a major threat to the country’s future’. He wanted President Hamid Karzai to remove some of the […]
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[PDF file]: […] Schroder’s and Lazard’s. In the second were executives from some of the nation’s most powerful corporations such ICI, Shell-Mex, the AngloIranian Oil Company (now known as BP), Cable and Wireless, and AEI (Associated Electrical Industries, then one of Britain’s major industrial groups). This coalition of forces, formed at the junction where the interests of […]
[PDF file]: […] cooperation we now enjoy.’17 Italy’s political parties unanimously condemned Clare’s words as US interference in their country’s domestic affairs. The Washington Post called the remarks ‘an inexpli cable breach of diplomatic propriety’, and said that they would damage the prospect of a US-friendly Italian government being formed. Less attention was paid to the fact […]
[PDF file]: […] Bower of Stewart’s fellow ex-Etonian, Boris Johnson: The Gambler,8 Stewart amusingly pointed out that Johnson’s hero from ancient Greece, Pericles, ‘had built the Parthenon, not the Emirates Cable Car’. He also neatly summed up the otherwise blindingly obvious by describing Johnson as ‘an amoral figure operating in a much bleaker and coarser culture’. Previous […]
