Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

A review of  Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties  

“Even if I’m cut to pieces, the people won’t let your British lackey rule. You slaves!” The Times ran a series, likely drafted by the notorious academic spy Ann Lambton, describing the oil nationalisation crisis as a product of the faulty “Persian character", while “the horse-faced Oriental” Mosaddegh was a hysterical symptom of an old feudal order that couldn’t take responsibility for its own shortcomings. Can the prime minister, a seasoned politician three decades his senior, not see the British themselves are ruthless? That they are trying to starve the people into submission with sanctions? That they provoke the religious fundamentalists who shot him, leaving him with this shattered leg, forever leaning on a cane to just get across a room? In the service of US and British geopolitical interests

It is mostly from a British journalist perspective An account to refresh our memory

 Angry TV-makers stop release of lauded Iranian documentary The documentary Coup 53   (use “vidoo” option to play)

How British propadandists used Islam to wage cultural cold war Related McJihad

Britain complicit in the crushing of Iran's Tudeh party

Terrorists of feather flock together. How Britain did Gaddafi's dirty work Ian Cobain is the author of

" As well as former Labour MP Mr Straw, the case brought by Mr Belhaj and his wife is against former senior MI6 official Sir Mark Allen, the UK security services, the Foreign Office and the Home Office - all have denied liability." The rendition programme was/ has bren a well-known criminal, terrorist programme. The terrorist states of the US and Britain and others in collaboration with others states, inlcuding Arab and non Arab ones, have been involved in this programme. Denying any involvement is not a surpriss; history is full of such examples. Denial also demonstrates cowardliness. For a background of the story, see September 11 and the functions of the 'war on terror"