[…] the Baath party. Today, the Arabs are no longer afraid…… The old Sharon policy into which the American neo-conservatives so fatally bought before the 2003 invasion of Iraq – of beating the Arabs till they come to heel or until they “behave” or until an Arab leader can be found “to control his own […]
[…] are, in fact, distinct and competitive ways of seeing and operating. They overlap in some places (in the war against terrorism) and they conflict in others (over Iraq). Conflicts continue and are inevitable. I explore a theory of why this is below. A new consensus Three conservative models are starting to converge, with, as […]
[…] would New Zealand be spying on the UN? How could that be in our national interest? As was revealed in the buildup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US National Security Agency (NSA, the Big Daddy of all the GCSB’s Big Brothers) systematically spied on the UN. So, the answer is that spying […]
[…] the Mersey The largely publicly funded career of another Lord Levy associate, Stephen Twigg (Lobsters passim), continues with news from Liverpool that he is to replace local Iraq war opponent Bob Wareing in West Derby, a constituency with which the director of the Foreign Policy Centre had no previous connection. Twigg will be a […]
[…] ground. I noted it was a coincidence that whenever Blair got into deep trouble, we had a terrorist alert tanks at Heathrow three days before the Iraq anti-war march; the fertiliser-bomb raid in Middlesex the day Beverley Hughes was forced to resign, and the Manchester arrests on EU U-turn day.’ And what happened? […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] From the 1950s we skip to the 1980s and Reagan-era disinformation about the Soviets (shooting the Pope etc); and finally we arrive at the two assaults on Iraq and a long list of countries which the US has attacked/invaded/subverted in the post-war era. ‘Add it all up, and the picture which emerges is of […]
[…] 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 […]
