[…] Away that tells of the ordeal of the SAS corporal who walked to freedom, and the account of their captivity by two RAF pilots shot down over Iraq, Tornado Down. These are tales of the underdog, of British masculinity triumphing, against all the odds, over the lesser masculinity of a brutal enemy.(15) In this […]
[…] led to 1991’s fictitious tales of baby-killing Iraqi soldiers (peddled by PR agents Hill and Knowlton on behalf of wealthy Kuwaitis who wanted the US to attack Iraq), was not only paved, but red-carpeted. Tye’s account (written in a subdued manner that belies the great effort that has obviously gone into the book) is […]
[…] The book is remarkably up-to-date, featuring many events from 2005 and covers all the most obvious ‘conspiracies’ up to and including the disinformation surrounding the invasion of Iraq in 2003. There is a bias towards American material in the book; but the bulk of the extant material emanates from and relates to that country. […]
[…] as Blair met with Putin in the latter’s hunting lodge, 11 October 2002, the Russian President – his menu of demands in return for compliance with America-versus- Iraq in his hand – was given a free rein to deal with the Chechens as he pleases. He will now be able to do so without […]
[…] After the flow of cash from Prague dried up, the NCP started courting other regimes. Mengistu’s Ethiopia was one such, until the Dergue collapsed in mid-1991. (4) Iraq at the time of the Gulf War was also courted (unsuccessfully, it seems), with opposition to Sadam’s regime being replaced with praise of the ‘great revolutionary’ […]
[…] did that get lost in the dust clouds of the next day’s events!) And there is a very good analysis of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq which he shows was ‘driven by an alliance of….the military-industrial complex and the hard-line Zionists proponents of “greater Israel” in the “promised land”.’ This is a […]
[…] the November issue of the usually worthy but dull New Internationalist by journalist David Hellier describing the events which befell him while investigating the British arming of Iraq in the 1980s. Two of his contacts died in suspicious circumstances, he was knocked down by a car which mounted the pavement, and various media suddenly […]
[…] were warmly welcomed by her fellow neo-conservatives in the White House and Pentagon. As Mylroie herself put it: ‘I take satisfaction that we went to war with Iraq and got rid of Saddam Hussein. The rest is details.’ (17) Notes 1 A typical broadcast would include extracts from ‘…Winston Churchill speeches, a rendition of […]
[…] crude fraud it always looked like.(12) Reading the original stories you can almost hear the dialogue in some office in Washington: ‘Hey, our media bought it in Iraq, so let’s run it at them again.’ Litvinenko Two big pieces on the death in London of Alexander Litvinenko have appeared. In the first, Edward J. […]
[…] ‘Another Casualty In the Octopus Case’ (Washington Post, August 28, 1991). In fact, arms merchant Ari Ben-Menasche identified Cardoen as the person who brokered the deal between Iraq and Earl Brian, corrupt functionary of the Reagan administration, for an illegal sale of the PROMIS software. Moyle no doubt imagined himself to be a super […]
