[…] and Steel Institute. Another AMAX director, J.D. Bonney, was born in Blackpool in 1930 and joined AMAX in the sixties. Between 1959 and 1960 he worked for Iraq Petroleum Co, owned by Shell, B.P. and other oil companies. More significantly for us he has been vice president of SOCAL since 1972 (SOCAL Europe, that […]
[…] these guys are fighting its class war.’ (p. 43) Palast believes that you should always follow the money. His account of the moves behind the invasion of Iraq is unlike any other I have seen. He sees the role of what he calls ‘big oil’ as much more prominent than most commentators; and offers […]
[…] manufacturers. What they don’t probe, in any great depth, are Aitken’s unorthodox political connections. He was co-director, with Gerald James, of BMARC (the shippers of ‘arms to Iraq’). Readers of James’ memoir will remember him, back in 1973/74 in UNISON with G. K. Young. Similarly we are told that one of Aitken’s close advisers […]
[…] reserve currency, otherwise known as the sterling area, and confined for the most part to the Commonwealth and Empire (exceptions were Canada, outside the bloc, and Egypt, Iraq, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, inside it). The overall indebtedness reached £3,355 million at the end of the war as Britain’s sterling creditors took IOUs in […]
[…] Peter Watson, Jane Affleck, Richard Alexander, Robert Henderson, Tom Easton, Chris Tame, Robin Whittaker, Rom and Tony Frewin. Several of the pieces in this issue are about Iraq. I didn’t suggest to those who write for Lobster that they do this, it just happened; though it isn’t surprising: it is the biggest item on […]
[…] Soroya , were in Noshar waiting for the outcome of the coup. As the news of the defeat got to the Shah, he escaped to Baghdad in Iraq. Later, when the commanders of the three units were asked why they had disobeyed their orders, they answered that since the Shah had gone to Noshar, […]
[…] after coming down from Liverpool. One of the more assertive members of the committee. Gerald James author of In the Public Interest and of ‘arms to Iraq’ fame. His name appeared on old Tory Action stationery (in the files) from earlier in the seventies. I’m not sure what he did, but he seems […]
[…] a general interest in this most fascinating period in American political history. With the conflict between the Pentagon and American civil society now in the press over Iraq, Talbot’s story of politicians versus the state resonates loudly. With one foot in the ‘alternative’ or radical media (Mother Jones) and one in the major media, […]
[…] this Near-East region in some detail if we are to gain an understanding of its objectives in the present impasse in which it has enmeshed itself in Iraq; and there can hardly be a more effective means of doing this than by examining relevant reports/papers of some of its administrations departments. Of necessity, these […]
[…] in the knowledge that involvement in or awareness of controversial military operations can be plausibly denied.’ Legislation has yet to appear, although the use of mercenaries in Iraq has, according to some commentators, concentrated ministerial minds, with proposals likely to follow after the next election. (9) Beyond our Ken Kenneth Tynan’s encounter with the […]
