[PDF file]: […] Mr Wallace’s feigned compassion for Russian families with members in military service was clearly intended to spread fear, uncertainty, and distrust through Russia’s armed services. Mr Wallace’s mind games probably succeeded to some degree, since cynicism about being treated as disposable ‘cannon fodder’ is always endemic in the lower orders of any army. What […]
[…] relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. Campbell replied: Think about what it would mean if he admitted he was wrong. It would overshadow everything he had ever […]
[…] Mr Wallace’s feigned compassion for Russian families with members in military service was clearly intended to spread fear, uncertainty, and distrust through Russia’s armed services. Mr Wallace’s mind games probably succeeded to some degree, since cynicism about being treated as disposable ‘cannon fodder’ is always endemic in the lower orders of any army. What […]
[…] UK economy and bringing asset price volatility under control, while nurturing non-financial exporting sectors.’37 Yes, indeed. And good luck selling that to the British political system (never mind the electorate). It is precisely the difficulty of persuading those within the daily travel distance to London that their influence and share of the national cake […]
[…] relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. Campbell replied: Think about what it would mean if he admitted he was wrong. It would overshadow everything he had ever […]
[…] past during his formal education. Living alongside this flourishing pro-Soviet propaganda installation, and occasionally venturing inside it, can only have exercised a strong influence on Olaf’s developing mind. One might describe it as immersive indoctrination, and it left an indelible impression. Many years later, Neitsch would take up residence in another town with similarly […]
[PDF file]: […] to Mr Adams’ readers, notwithstanding his admirable research to document his story from official records.2 This review examines Milteer might not have had a specific motorcade in mind at this stage. President Kennedy visited Miami fairly often, for personal reasons: the Kennedy family had a compound overlooking Palm Beach. 1 For example, the book’s […]
[PDF file]: […] now grandchildren — have never known a world war. This is weird. It equates ‘peace’ with the absence of world war or great power military conflict. Never mind the millions killed by the American state in South East Asia (Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) and many countries in South and Central America in the name […]
[…] Brexit. Consequently I do not believe it will happen.2 As the ‘negotiations’ proceed, a negative feedback 1 or . 2 I voted ‘leave’ in the referendum. Never mind the destruction of Greece by the EU, described in detail in the new book by Yanis Varoufakis; a union based on the free movement of capital […]
[PDF file]: […] Korean war. The significance of this recurring motif isn’t immediately apparent. Related to this show-trial theme, in chronicling the creation of MKULTRA (‘The Manhattan Project of the mind’, in Dulles’s words), Mr Talbot shows that one of Dulles’s genuine fears about his adversaries was well-founded, or at least comprehensible. The downed airmen who confessed […]
