May 10, 2008 (LPAC)--Sic Semper Tyrannis 2008, a website widely followed by U.S. military personnel, active-duty and retired, has recently hosted a lively trans-Atlantic exchange, identifying some of the leading neoconservative actors and institutions in Britain, which have interfaced for decades, with the American neocon gang. The lack of public exposure of the British neocons is belatedly being corrected, and this is a critical development, at this moment, because it fills out a picture that is otherwise falsified by an over-attention to the U.S.A. neocon apparatus.
British analyst David Habakkuk launched the expose, with a recent posting, that exposed the role of current MI6 head Sir John Scarlett, as a leading neocon booster. Formerly the head of Tony Blair's Joint Intelligence Committee, Scarlett presided over the ``sexed up'' Downing Street White Papers on Iraq's purported WMD, which drove the disinformation campaign, leading to the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Among the leading neocon institutions in London, identified in the recent website exchanges are: Policy Exchange, the Centre of Social Cohesion, the Henry Jackson Society, and the Euston Manifesto. The Telegraph PLC, formerly the property of jailed swindler Sir Conrad Black, is one of the most critical media outlets, along with the British Fabian Society-linked Guardian/Observer, and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation conglomerate. Despite the fact that Black is in jail, and the Telegraph has fallen into other hands, Con Coughlin, the paper's lead national security correspondent, remains one of the leading neocon propagandists. And Rupert Murdoch's personal liason to both British and American neocons, Irwin Stelzer, is regularly published in Murdoch's London Times, in the Telegraph, and the Spectator. During the period of the Tony Blair government, Stelzer was Murdoch's personal liaison to the prime minister.
Charles Moore, former Telegraph and Spectator editor, is now at the Policy Exchange, as director, and is preparing the authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher. His closest collaborator there is one Dean Godson, son of Congress for Cultural Freedom operative Joseph Godson, and the younger brother of American neocon Roy Godson. Dean Godson, who once ran for a parliamentary seat as a Tory, is at the center of the London neocon circuit, currently involved in conducting a defamation campaign against anyone daring to promote dialogue with the Muslim world. Dean Godson was at one time special assistant to Conrad Black at the Telegraph. He had earlier held a similar post, working for the late Sir James Goldsmith. One of Godson's leading collaborators, particularly in the now ongoing anti-Islam crusade, is Martin Bright, editor of the New Statesman, formerly with the British Fabian newspaper, the Observer. Two other leading Policy Exchange figures, both Tory MPs, are Michael Gove and Nicholas Boles. Another Policy Exchange propagandist, closely allied with Godson, is Denis MacEoin.
Sir John Dearlove, the head of MI6 prior to Sir John Scarlett, is a charter member of the Henry Jackson Society, a point of convergence of right-wing Labour Fabians and Tory Thatcherites, which maintains an international advisory board, comprised of almost all of the leading American neocons. The Henry Jackson Society is headquartered at Peterhouse in Cambridge, which is home to Maurice Cowling, a British revisionist historian and leading Thatcherite neocon, who argued that Churchill should have aligned with Hitler against FDR and the United States, to avoid Britain being placed under joint American/Soviet domination. Cowling is known as the ``Godfather of Thatcherism.''
Executive Intelligence Review has launched an in-depth probe into all of the British neocon outlets, and their ties to such American counterparts as the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) and the National Strategy Information Center--of Dean Godson's brother, Roy Godson.
