[…] DSO (17) B 18.11.1887, D 14.1.79 MI5 (W) 1914-18 ARMY FRANCE MIDDLE EAST 1922 ROYAL CORPS SIGNALS 1926-27 INDIA 1930-32 COMMANDER SCHOOL SIGNALS CATTERICK 1934 MILITARY MISSION IRAQ 1936 WAR OFFICE 1939 DIRECTOR D DIVISION 1945 MILITARY LIAISON OFFICER ALLOT, ELIZABETH ROSEMARY OBE (1972) B 2.7.18 IRD 1945 ALLIED COMMISSION FOR AUSTRIA 1948 FO […]
[…] municipal elections. A Question of Honour was ghostwritten for Blair’s chief fundraiser by Ned Temko, the editor of The Jewish Chronicle for 15 years before joining the Iraq war-supporting Observer in 2005. Some thought it an odd move for a double Pulitzer Prize nominee and Israeli historian to become a weekly paper transport correspondent. […]
[…] stability. Some most strident in their critique of past policies now write of a resurgent American idealism, a new era, during which, for example, the people of Iraq have been released from a fear unparalleled in the Middle East. Grandin does not take on critics who have defended the US since 9/11, many of […]
Empires Apart: America And Russia From The Vikings To Iraq Brian Landers Hove: Picnic Publishing, 2009, £15, p/b Is America an empire? Tsarist Russia and its Soviet successor were certainly seen as such through western eyes. That America is not showing the heavily ideologised world through which we frame history. In a bold […]
[…] US defence doctrine; and the aggregation of all of these in the combination of political and strategic factors leading the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq war. The term ‘war on terror’ (WoT) has been widely derided as both epistemologically illiterate and a transparent catchall for demagogy and the pursuit of long-standing […]
[…] destroying the planet is doing the same thing to their brains. Not in front of the children When Colin Powell addressed the UN on the issue of Iraq in early February, UN officials hung a curtain over a reproduction of Picasso’s Guernica which hung on the wall behind the spot where statements are made […]
[…] the figleaf of ‘international support’ for the US while the rest of the EU snigger behind their cocktails? Yes, sir. Send Tornado pilots to their death in Iraq on suicidal low-level bombing missions? Yes sir, if that’s all we have to offer (especially, as Urban tells us, when large procurement programs hang on the […]
[…] columnist Kamm to be a left-winger. (For Kamm ‘left-winger’ means being a member of the Labour Party). It gives him a pitch ‘left’ support for the Iraq War/’war on terror’ that the media are supposed to find interesting. You can probably guess his major arguments but you might be surprised by the […]
[…] at: George W. Bush’s successful derailing of concerted action on climate change; an energy crisis; a $3 trillion war (that’s just the cost to the Americans of Iraq) and a downwardly mobile world economy which will leave millions with little hope of escaping poverty, to name but a few of the major items. Dubya […]
[…] of recent Acts of Parliament (1987 onwards). Plans to publish Acts of Parliament in full from 1996 onwards. Newsgroups alt.desert-storm Subjects include chemical/ biological weapons used in Iraq, depleted uranium, Iraq sanctions, Gulf War Syndrome, birth defects in babies born to Gulf War veterans, US export of CBW-related materials to Iraq. alt.politics.org.cia Mena – […]
