I've mentioned how I learned that the English government, in the form of British Petroleum, had military-industrial interests in Mesopotamia six years before the outbreak of WWI, and how we can't contemplate our current Expedition merely in the light of the 1950s, and the overthrow of Mossadegh and the propping of the Shah; nor in the light of 1948 ( Read more... )

...Charles (later Sir Charles, then Lord) Greenway. Greenway was one of Anglo-Persian's founder-directors, becoming managing director in 1910 and chairman, after Strathcona, in 1914 ( Read more... )

If the Freepers needed another excuse to hate "liberal" Massachusetts, they've got a mammoth one. How long 'till Bill O'Reilly pleads on Sir Rupert's airwaves for Al Quaeda to take down the Hancock Building?

This is an enormous thing, and it may will save lives and healths of working-class New Englanders this winter. I have been so afraid because ( Read more... )