Mark Curtis' latest
03 Jul '10 13:47Investigative journalist Mark Curtis had done it again. Going through some declassified British documents he has unearthed some gritty details about Britain's dealings with terrorists groups and countries that support them.
In the good and usual way of Imperialism what the British government has chose to do was to give them cover, help them over throw governments, and secure oil resources.
Yes, that's the War on Terror for you simpletons out there: you have to collude with terrorists and then send your national youth to die in another countries and maim the indigenous population.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Affairs-Britains-Collusion-Radical/dp/1846687632
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/colluding_with_extremists/
Of course such expositions will merit very little attention form the media, scorn by the very few of the enlightened elite that will actually read the book, derision by the larger part of the enlightened elite that won't read the book but will comment on it based on another people commentaries (most of which won't read the book also), and rationalization by the gang of usual suspects that consider themselves to be part of the broader intelligentsia but can only parrot, with little modification, what the media tells them to think.
In the good and usual way of Imperialism what the British government has chose to do was to give them cover, help them over throw governments, and secure oil resources.
Yes, that's the War on Terror for you simpletons out there: you have to collude with terrorists and then send your national youth to die in another countries and maim the indigenous population.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Affairs-Britains-Collusion-Radical/dp/1846687632
In his ground-breaking new book, Mark Curtis reveals the secret history of British collusion with radical Islamic and terrorist groups. It shows how Labour and Conservative governments have connived with militant groups linked to al-Qaida to control oil resources, overthrow governments and promote Britain’s financial interests. The current terrorist threat to Britain is partly ‘blowback’.
The story of how Britain has helped to nurture the rise of global terrorism has never been told. Secret Affairs reveals how Britain has covertly supported radical Islamic groups in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, the Balkans, Syria, Indonesia and Egypt. Drawing on declassified government files, it documents Britain’s hidden strategic alliance with the two major state sponsors of radical Islam – Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. And it shows how British policies of ‘divide of rule’ – rooted in the Empire – have used Islamic forces to promote imperial interests in India, Palestine, Jordan and Yemen. Similar British policies continue today in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Mark Curtis shows how British collusion with radical Islam is intimately related to its postwar imperial decline. Expedient and pragmatic, and lacking any moral compass, policy-makers have aimed to counter popular, nationalist forces in a desperate attempt to uphold their power in a changing world.
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/colluding_with_extremists/
Can you tell us what your new book - ‘Secret affairs: Britain’s collusion with radical Islam’ is about. What do you want to convey? What are your hopes for the book?
The book tells the story of the long history of British collaboration with radical Islam, including terrorist groups. 7/7 and the present broader terrorist threat to Britain is to some degree a product of British foreign policy – the bombings derived from a terrorism infrastructure established by a Pakistani state long backed by Whitehall and involving Pakistani terrorist groups which had benefitted from past British covert action. Throughout the postwar period Britain has covertly supported radical Islamic groups in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, the Balkans, Syria, Indonesia and Egypt, and the book aims to documents this drawing on the declassified British files.
Of course such expositions will merit very little attention form the media, scorn by the very few of the enlightened elite that will actually read the book, derision by the larger part of the enlightened elite that won't read the book but will comment on it based on another people commentaries (most of which won't read the book also), and rationalization by the gang of usual suspects that consider themselves to be part of the broader intelligentsia but can only parrot, with little modification, what the media tells them to think.
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