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Top intelligence official revives Iran doubts

Posted by FTR ⋅ February 5, 2008 ⋅ One comment

by Demetri Sev­astop­u­lo in Wash­ing­tonFINANCIAL TIMES The senior US intel­li­gence offi­cial on Tues­day stressed that a recent report on Iran had con­clud­ed that Tehran had halt­ed only one part of its alleged nuclear weapons pro­gramme. Admi­ral Michael McConnell, direc­tor of nation­al intel­li­gence, said the Novem­ber nation­al intel­li­gence esti­mate had con­clud­ed that Tehran had ceased only […]


Iran ‘hoodwinked’ CIA over nuclear plans

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 13, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

by Tim Ship­man, Philip Sher­well and Car­olynne Wheel­er THE TELEGRAPH British spy chiefs have grave doubts that Iran has moth­balled its nuclear weapons pro­gramme, as a US intel­li­gence report claimed last week, and believe the CIA has been hood­winked by Teheran. Iran ‘hood­winked’ CIA over nuclear plansAna­lysts believe that Iran­ian staff, know­ing their phones were […]


FTR #616 Going Native, Part 3: Homeland Insecurity

Posted by FTR ⋅ November 13, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Record­ed Octo­ber 28, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis from FTR#550, this pro­gram looks at the use of native, “unrep­re­sent­ed” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uine­ly con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cal­ly, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Mon­go­lian Bud­dhists, Islamists […]


Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth

Posted by FTR ⋅ November 10, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Iran, Rus­sia and Venezuela Feel the Ben­e­fits By Steven Muf­sonWASHINGTON POST High oil prices are fuel­ing one of the biggest trans­fers of wealth in his­to­ry. Oil con­sumers are pay­ing $4 bil­lion to $5 bil­lion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pump­ing more than $2 tril­lion into the cof­fers […]


Banned Islamicist Expert’s Lecture on ‘Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East’

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 30, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Ger­man aca­d­e­m­ic, Dr. Matthias Kuentzel’s, lec­ture, giv­en to an audi­ence of well over one hun­dred peo­ple tonight at Leeds Uni­ver­si­ty. Accord­ing to the organ­is­ers it met with a great deal of acclaim and evoked con­cern about the espousal by much of the British Left of Islam­ic fas­cist ten­den­cies — the lega­cy of Hitler and Nazism […]


FTR #615 Going Native, Part 2 German Foreign Policy and Its Implications

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 30, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Record­ed Octo­ber 21, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis from FTR#550, this pro­gram looks at the use of native, “unrep­re­sent­ed” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uine­ly con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cal­ly, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Mon­go­lian Bud­dhists, Islamists […]


Strategies of Attrition (IV)

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

GermanForeignPolicy.com[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I), Strate­gies of Attri­tion (II) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (III).] BERLIN/URUMQI/MUNICH/BEIJING(Own report) — Ger­man for­eign pol­i­cy mak­ers, are upping their polit­i­cal pres­sure on Bei­jing, and hold­ing talks with a Chi­nese sep­a­ratist. As the Munich based “World Uyghur Con­gress (WUC)” announced, its pres­i­dent, Rebiya Kadeer will also be received by the […]


Malta ‘is Blackwater’s operational base’ – MEP report

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 15, 2007 ⋅ One comment

by Noel Gri­maThe [Mal­ta] Inde­pen­dent Online A Euro­pean Par­lia­ment work­ing doc­u­ment drawn up by Gio­van­ni Clau­dio Fava has claimed “Mal­ta is the oper­a­tional base of Black­wa­ter, the organ­is­er of pri­vate mil­i­tary mili­tia which are increas­ing­ly tak­ing on more and more roles which used to be under­tak­en by US forces in Iraq and else­where”. Amer­i­can left-wing […]


FTR #612 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 9, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Record­ed Sep­tem­ber 23, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of Iran­ian pres­i­dent Ahmadinejad’s recent appear­ance at Ivy League Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty in New York, the pro­gram high­lights the dis­turb­ing sim­i­lar­i­ty to a past pres­i­dent of that university’s embrace of fas­cism. Just as Nicholas Mur­ray But­ler was dis­mis­sive of con­cerns that fas­cism […]


FTR #611 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters — Caution: Networks at Work

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 2, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

Record­ed Sep­tem­ber 23, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Explor­ing the eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal net­works that both pre­cip­i­tat­ed and exe­cut­ed the 9/11 attacks, this pro­gram high­lights the links between Islamist ele­ments involved at the oper­a­tional lev­el and indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions that dom­i­nate the glob­al geo-polit­i­­cal land­scape. These networks—belonging to elite indus­tri­al, finan­cial and […]


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