Triple Edge Resources

MIT Press journal article on the Congress for Cultural Freedom — the CIA-funded cultural offensive in France and Italy that funded writers, journals and exhibitions as part of the ideological Cold War.

Time Magazine cover feature on Eurocommunism — documents Western anxiety about the Italian and French Communist parties’ move toward electoral respectability and the US strategic response.

H-Diplo review of Perlman’s study of US intelligence and communist plots in postwar France — extends the CIA covert action framework from Italy to France.

Opening chapter of Bandeira’s study of the Second Cold War — argues neoliberal economic ideology was deployed as a weapon in the ideological struggle, with government and NGO actors as agents of American neoliberalism.

Academic survey of Italian foreign and security policy from 1945 — covers the US-Italian strategic relationship, Gladio, and Italy’s Cold War positioning within NATO.

Declassified CIA assessment of Bettino Craxi — documents US intelligence monitoring of the Italian Socialist Party leader who was central to the Tangentopoli scandal.

Report on US intelligence training programme for Ukrainian spies — documents the CIA’s decade-long investment in Ukrainian intelligence infrastructure.

A US institute with Trump administration ties and an Iran regime-change agenda gifted over £70,000 to Boris Johnson and three cabinet ministers — documents the funding of British politicians by American foreign policy interests.

Documents the scale and depth of UK-Israel military cooperation — £46m in equipment purchases and British troops stationed in Israel; raises questions about UK complicity in Israeli military operations.

Declassified files show Whitehall has long assessed Israel as having a nuclear arsenal — while ministers deny knowledge in Parliament. Documents systematic official dishonesty on non-proliferation.

Declassified files show UK privately assessed Israel as the main obstacle to containing Iran’s nuclear programme — in contradiction of public UK-Israel alignment.

Pilger on the media and institutional gatekeepers who protect elite power — relevant to the media concentration and disinformation clusters.

Pilger analysis of Tony Blair’s doctrine of humanitarian intervention as cover for geopolitical and financial interests — directly relevant to the Butler Britain and Blair-Berlusconi threads.

ABA Journal report on EU Parliamentary renewal of investigation into secret CIA detention sites in European member states.

Academic analysis of the EU’s adoption of ancillary listings in its sanctions regime — documents European convergence with US extraterritorial sanctions architecture.

Reports European warnings against US retaliation over a European gas deal with Iran — documents the recurring pattern of US extraterritorial sanctions pressure on European energy policy.

UPI report on European Community’s formal declaration that Reagan’s ban on pipeline technology exports was illegal under international law — the 1982 transatlantic crisis over the Soviet gas pipeline.

Reports on the D’Amato Act (ILSA) — US legislation targeting foreign companies investing in Iranian and Libyan energy sectors; triggered the EU Blocking Regulation.

White & Case analysis of the CJEU ruling on the EU Blocking Regulation — clarifies the legal position of EU companies caught between US sanctions and EU law.

EP parliamentary question on extending the EU Blocking Regulation scope — documents the EU’s legal response to US extraterritorial sanctions on Iran.

Legal analysis of US reservations to UN human rights treaties — argues the US systematically uses reservations to avoid binding human rights obligations while projecting rights rhetoric abroad.

Comprehensive history of post-colonial Africa — covers Cold War proxy interventions, kleptocratic governance, and the structural adjustment programmes that compounded African poverty.

Pilger investigates Western imperialism in Afghanistan, India, Palestine, South Africa and Diego Garcia — documents the gap between democratic rhetoric and colonial practice.

Pilger documents how globalisation has created a new ruling class — covers Indonesia, Australia, and the mechanisms of Western corporate and political power.