[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] exclusively to the Libyan intelligence service, led to charges against two Libyans and sanctions against Libya. Syria and the oil war in the Gulf In August 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. James Baker’s feet didn’t touch the ground for weeks as he flew round the world making alliance deals – either provide men and armour […]
[…] the most to expose wrongdoing. Its published reports are heavily censored. The report into ‘The Handling of Detainees by UK Intelligence Personnel in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq’ was a model in understatement although it showed more nerve than usual. Evidence was taken from NGOs such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch and in […]
[PDF file]: […] replicate is the manner in which the fabricated evidence of weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi al-Qaida connections were ‘sexed-up’ in preparation for the illegal invasion of Iraq (and subsequent war crimes) in 2003.9 By November 2011, Britain’s Tory government had repeated the history of its predecessor by announcing that the MoD would participate […]
[PDF file]: […] USA on the other, run by bankers, public schoolboys (and they are boys for the most part) and the super-rich, is the outcome of this process.28 The Iraq Memory Hole Winston Smith, the central character of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, works for the Ministry of Truth in Airstrip One, which is what Britain is […]
[PDF file]: […] that are being spent on PMCs that provide services related to the ‘Global War on Terror’ and the effective civil war that followed the second invasion of Iraq in 2003. This is the focus of what follows. In 2006 American author Charlie Cray stated that ‘Industry analysts expect it will be a $200 billion-a-year […]
[PDF file]: […] Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair Miles Goslett London, Head of Zeus, 2018, £16.99 ISBN-13: 978-1788543095 Did you know that the body of Iraq weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, who died mysteriously in 2003 after being named by 10 Downing Street for criticising its war-promoting dossier, had been exhumed and […]
[PDF file]: […] his memoir is ‘about counterinsurgency and its journey from the far periphery of US military doctrine to its center’. The reality is that after the failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States is not about to commit large ground forces to a protracted military occupation again any time soon. Even the rise of […]
