On Saturday I shall be speaking at a conference in Edinburgh on the changing face of racism, and how Islamophobia is now not only mainstream but actively promoted by government.
Donald Trump’s remarks have brought appropriate condemnation, but the Henry Jackson Society got there first. In February 2006 Douglas Murray, Associate Director of the Henry Jackson Society, stated :
“It is late in the day, but Europe still has time to turn around the demographic time-bomb which will soon see a number of our largest cities fall to Muslim majorities. It has to. All immigration into Europe from Muslim countries must stop. In the case of a further genocide such as that in the Balkans, sanctuary would be given on a strictly temporary basis. This should also be enacted retrospectively… Conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board: Europe must look like a less attractive proposition.”
Douglas Murray also came out with a straight defence of the use of torture by Western intelligence agencies.
Yet the politicians who pretend to be outraged by Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from the US, line up to support the man who declares “All immigration into Europe from Muslim countries must stop.” Not only Jim Murphy, but a role call of top Blairites sits on the Political Council of the Henry Jackson Society – Margaret Beckett, Hazel Blears, Ben Bradshaw, Chris Bryant, Gisela Stuart etc. All of course enthusiasts for bombing Syria. It astonishes me that the Labour Party is now complaining about “infiltration” by groups on the left when a large number of very senior figures can belong to an organisation which is avowedly neo-conservative, is linked to the US and European far right and is funded by the CIA.
The Henry Jackson Society is the go-to organisation for broadcasters looking for comment on Islamic affairs. I was both pleased and surprised to see the Henry Jackson Society named two days ago in a Guardian article on the mainstreaming of Islamophobia. Pleased because the maximum exposure is necessary to make people understand what people are getting when they see “independent” HJS staff interviewed on the BBC and Sky, and surprised because the Blairite controlled and US marketed Guardian doesn’t usually run this kind of stuff anymore.
I tucked it in to the back of my mind until I came to write this article. Guess what? The Guardian Editors have now excised all mention of the Henry Jackson Society from the article on the mainstreaming of Islamophobia. Interesting that, isn’t it?
The Henry Jackson Society seconds staff to the Quilliam Foundation. This extraordinary organisation is a career vehicle for “reformed jihadists” to milk huge salaries and luxury lifestyles from government money, in return for fronting an organisation run by the security services. Quilliam specialises in denouncement of Muslim organisations and talking up the Jihadi threat, offering “expert advice” on the government’s anti-free speech strategy. At the same time, it seeks to maximise the income of its directors. One interesting collaboration to make money was its collaboration with the current head of Pergida UK, and former head of the English Defence League, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Alias Tommy Robinson).
Quilliam have received millions from the taxpayer for their dubious “work”. But their application for Home Office funding to split with Yaxley-Lennon remains an episode beyond belief. Several of Quilliam’s staff are “lent” by the CIA-funded Henry Jackson Society.
Do come along to the meeting on Saturday. Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9BX.
From a latter-day Rip Van Winkle (he was Transar-tlantic too):
“In 1963, 80% of Boeing’s business was military.”
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I wonder what the figure for, say, 2013 was?
Ohh so you can back it you with evidence, this should be good.
@ for those unable to Google (or whatever) Get themselves down to the local Uni library, pay a fee, and read a few books on the Middle East/history. Or an Open University course. It might bring some enlightenment.
From 1917 Balfour Declaration. The stirring HoL’s, the 1WW, the Oil sector, the Wall Street crash, 11WW, the migration to ‘Israel’, the Apartheid State, the stolen Middle Eastern Oil, the Suez crisis, the Seven days War, the Land Grab in Palestine. The Iranian unrest caused by the West, destabilising the country. The Iraq Iranian War. Mi5/CIA illegal activities. The Algerian crisis. The illegal invasions by tge West. The misery and suffering of Israeli racism. The two tier, Apartheid State of Israel, which would not be tolerated in Western ‘democracies’, but they support it in the Middle East. What if Obama was denied the vote and equal rights with others? It’s all about Oil.
Which bit of ww1 was about oil.
I can certainly back with evidence the close relationship between GCHQ and NSA. E.g., The Guardian: GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance:
That’s just one example, but it’s throughout Snowden’s revelations and the writings of people like James Bamford.
http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/150993/four-thousand-anti-israel-dolls-seized-customs
As it’s only 17 days to Christmas trust this not to 0/T .
Stuck for ideas for Christmas presents for the kids . The ‘ inciting Doll ‘ the new ‘ must have ‘ for Xmas .
Monteverdi
Just out of interest, do you post about anything other than Israel?
In 2013, Henry Jackson had been dead for 30 years.
Oh dear, it turns out that ROS is in reality just another Anon1 type shallow thinking bigot; unable to seperate a Faith from how a small minority of its followers chose to interpret it.
Did you have to go to a Race Hate site like Anon1, or did you come up with these ridiculous non-points all by yourself ?
“Which bit of ww1 was about oil.”
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Strange, that Phil who, wasn’t sure about drones one minute, then miraculously knew all about them and which bases they inhabited, wouldn’t know that oil played a role in WW1.
Just before war broke out in 1914, British and German companies had negotiated joint participation in the newly-founded Turkish Petroleum Company that held prospecting rights in Mesopotamia. The war ended the Anglo-German oil partnership and it exposed the territories of the German-allied Ottoman Empire to direct British attack.
As war continued, oil seemed ever more important and shortages ever more menacing to the imperial planners. Sir Maurice Hankey, powerful Secretary of the British War Cabinet, wrote to Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour during the war’s final stage, to argue that oil had become absolutely vital to Britain and that oil resources in Mesopotamia would be crucial in the future.
“Control of these oil supplies becomes a first-class war aim” Hankey said enthusiastically, as British troops closed in on Baghdad.
https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/185-general/40479-great-power-conflict-over-iraqi-oil-the-world-war-i-era.html
“In 2013, Henry Jackson had been dead for 30 years.”
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But Boeing wasn’t.
He was suggesting war broke out due to oil, not that at some point during the war, the word oil may come up.
And also, just because i know a little about drones, i therefore have to know everything ever. Seems odd to me.
“Oh dear, it turns out that ROS is in reality just another Anon1 type shallow thinking bigot; unable to seperate a Faith from how a small minority of its followers chose to interpret it.”
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Macky I hardly think the Iranian clegy and the Ayatollah are a small minority, they oversee the religious affairs of over 77 million Iranians.
Nor have the blasphemy laws of Pakistan been repealed in a country of over 191 million.
I’d think again if I were you Macky, Islam isn’t as forgiving as you seem to think.
I didn’t question it, I merely said the allies done this, and they did, as to the efficacy of it, it’s open to question, as you say. In the latter stages they couldn’t deliver food or supplies to starving cities or to armies, much less mail to forces or civilians, in particular the rail network was devastated.
Yeah, I had noted recently that the current incarnation of Bliar could well fit into the Le Pen National Front party. Under Labour immigration was pretty high, and Blair didn’t seem to mind. Now, his far-right views are basically out in the open, there to be marvelled at. I doubt he’s really changed all that much, he’s just more free to speek his mind; and by ‘free’ I obviously don’t mean he does it for free, no he’s bought a paid for, at a rather high price. Love his money old Tony.
I saw, with no little bafflement, that Ben Bradshaw made some rather childish point about the anti-war protestors, noting that they weren’t carrying banners about Daesh. This kind of stupidity happens all the time in politics, so I become used to it, but Craig has explained Ben’s links to neocon circles. Anti-war protestors, of course, are there to protest about war, not protest about whatever Ben Bradshaw says they should. And who thte fuck is Ben Bradshaw anyway, I mean really, where do we find these cretins?
I’m essentially an atheist, so religion baffles me at the best of times. But, to each their own. If I were a muslim in the UK, I’d be rather worried about my safety just now. Yet, we are told it’s the other way round: we should be worried about Muslims. Neocons do live in a kind of parallel world, don’t they?
“He was suggesting war broke out due to oil, not that at some point during the war, the word oil may come up.”
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Fair enough, though in my defence I was replying to your comment, though in hindsight I took it out of context, I stand corrected.
From Secret Power, by Nicky Hager (1996), about John Brandon, who was an officer of GCSB (the New Zealand counterpart of GCHQ and NSA):
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/37662954/1fac8za/145
On the previous thread our Transatlantic friend wrote as follows:
“I’ve already pointed out that the assumption that the US garrison in Berlin was all Army was erroneous. For example, it is well known that the US Air Force was there.”
According to Wikipedia the US garrison in Berlin was called the Berlin Brigade. Here is what Wikipedia says about its com^psition:
“During the Berlin Wall Crisis of 1961, the Army reorganized the command structure of the forces in Berlin and created the U.S. Army Berlin and created the Berlin Brigade from the units already in the city. ……..
The reorganized brigade consisted of the following units:
2d Battalion, 6th Infantry
3d Battalion, 6th Infantry
4th Battalion, 18th Infantry (reflagged on 13 September 1972 as the 4th Battalion, 6th Infantry)[3]
Battery C, 94th Field Artillery
Company F (later 6th Battalion), 40th Armor
42d Engineer Company
42d AG Unit (Postal)
42d Military Police Group (Customs) (attached elements)
287th Military Police Company (Separate)
43d Chemical Detachment
76th Chemical Detachment
279th Station Hospital (became US Army Hospital Berlin in 1976)
168th Medical Detachment (Veterinary Service)
592d Signal Company
298th Army Band ……….
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the operational structure of the Brigade was as follows:
Berlin Brigade
4th Bn, 502d Infantry Regiment, (6x M106, 12x M901, 14x M113, 8x M125)
5th Bn, 502d Infantry Regiment, (6x M106, 12x M901, 14x M113, 8x M125)
6th Bn, 502d Infantry Regiment, (6x M106, 12x M901, 14x M113, 8x M125)
D Company, 40th Armor Regiment, (14x M1A1)
F Company, 40th Armor Regiment, (14x M1A1)
E Battery, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, (8x M109A3
42d Engineer Company
42d Postal Unit”
No reference there to either the US Air Force or the US Navy as far as I can see.
The wikipedia information on “Scoop” Jackson seems to be fairly accurate. What people need to do is to put it into the context of the times which, were far more receptive to ‘liberal’ values, welfare state programmes and social egalitarianism than this, post Thatcher-Reagan, Clinton-Blair generation.
The Henry Jackson Society, however, has no commitment to unions, human rights, social equality or even anti-totalitarianism. It supports, unfailingly, the most repressive regimes and promotes not ‘liberal values’ democracy or human rights but US Imperialism so long as doing so coincides with Zionist interests.
Wikipedia reminds us of the origins of our present warmongering and the neo-cons many of whom, when they went to work for Scoop, still saw themselves as not just pro-labour but as trotskyists with a hatred of the Soviet government which, happily for them and their careers, coincided with the hatred Imperialists felt for a rival power.
The Soviet Union is gone but Russophobia persists as does the lunatic ideology of world domination, now, as then, very profitable for the merchants of death, such as Boeing.
Lysias
You’re not having a good day today, are you.
Story unravelling, lots of flailing about and getting a bit of a caning.
I’d call it a day if I were you 🙂
Gail Halvorsen:
Bevin
“very profitable for the merchants of death, such as Boeing.”
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One could of course also see Boeing as a company whose products have made travelling easier, safer and cheaper – in effect, more possible.
But you probably don’t travel much and you are certainly a prize fool.
“Berlin Brigade” was indeed the name used for the U.S. Army units in Berlin. Other services were not a part of it.
Anon1 @ 6.59pm Where did you copy that piece from? Your contributions are normally much shorter. Now the content is the same but it is more literate than usual.
RoS I am shocked. The stench of Islamophobia is very strong on p 1. I almost think there is some sock puppeting going on.
You said that the idea the US (Army) garrison was all army is wrong. Showing that the USAF operated out of an Air Base in Berlin does not prove that…….
Well, whether or not what I was a part of was part of the U.S. Army garrison (something I have never said,) I was certainly in Berlin (something I have said), and I was certainly not a member of the U.S. Army (also something that I have said). Your friend has been claiming that I cannot have been in Berlin, and I know that I was.
I don’t see any point in quibbling about definitions and terminology. As far as they are concerned, have it whatever way you want.
Lots of changing the story and introducing irrelevant material as well.
Go off and do something else for the rest of the day, you might do better tomorrow.
From a true “Friend”.
WW1 was in large part, about oil. It would better be called The War of the Ottoman Spoils, it’s still going on. Oil transformed shipping and a certain country considered itself to rule the waves, and free to waive the rules.
I can’t believe you’re arguing about spelling, was Jackson not American, the piece lifted therefore is likely to be from an American source, ‘labor’ and ‘program’ are quite correct. Henry Jackson cared about Henry Jackson. Neo-con Labour claim to care for all sorts of things, but in practice time and again given the chance do the the square root of fuck all.
“Well, whether or not what I was a part of was part of the U.S. Army garrison (something I have never said,)”
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I’m afraid you dud say that, Lysias.
And never denied having said it when you were reminded about it (repeatedly)