[…] public until the Americans fuck-up and then they mutter in the corner about the dumb, incompetent, cowboy Yanks, as they did most recently over the debacle in Iraq. You may be thinking that I am anti-American. Not so: but I am anti-American foreign policy. My parents were in the Communist Party until the Soviet […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] security institutions during nation-building missions’ and analyses ‘…the activities of the United States and other countries in building viable police, internal security forces, and justice structures.’ As Iraq is one of the case studies a revised edition may be necessary. ‘Chemical tests carried out in West…’, Western Daily Press, 16 September 2002; Anon, ‘Demands […]
[…] one of Mark Thatcher’s friends – while Cardoen was doing a big helicopter deal with the Iraqis. This was in the run-up to the American attack on Iraq. Moyle ended up dead in a wardrobe in Chile and what does the local FCO guy do? Tells the media that Moyle was the victim of […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] himself as the ‘thinking person’s counterrevolutionary’. An Australian national, formerly a professional soldier with counterinsurgency expertise. According to his own testimony he served ‘the Bush administration in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Horn of Africa and Southeast Asia’. Since then he has served the Obama administration ‘in many of the same places as an adviser […]
