[…] politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.11 And the review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its gophers, like the UK) was just a mistake caused by the US and Saddam Hussein not understanding each other. Having thus […]
[PDF file]: […] American foreign policy. Thus the state which is apparently agitated about the use of ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria used depleted uranium and phosphorous in their assault on Iraq, drenched much of Vietnam and bits of Laos and Cambodia in Agent Orange, and – lest we forget – recruited the Japanese 35 I discussed this […]
[PDF file]: […] Labour Party’s actual history in office; but that is another matter. Which brings us to Blair’s wars. How does Brown deal with British involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, fighting in the service of the American Empire? In his memoir, Brown remembers how on 11 September 2001 he had ‘cried at the carnage inflicted on […]
[…] of intelligence thereafter remained central to the development of neoconservatism at every major turning point from Team B to Iran-Contra 9 See . to the War on Iraq.’ That last sentence says in polite academic terms what I would put this way: false intelligence was critical to the recreation of the Soviet ‘threat’. When […]
[PDF file]: […] 9 See . 3 intelligence thereafter remained central to the development of neoconservatism at every major turning point from Team B to Iran-Contra to the War on Iraq.’ That last sentence says in polite academic terms what I would put this way: false intelligence was critical to the recreation of the Soviet ‘threat’. When […]
[…] in time people will understand this is not a problem we have caused, it’s a problem we have got caught up in….The reasons Kosovo worked and in Iraq and Afghanistan it was really difficult was because of the intervention of radical Islam….’1 3 Never mind the Anglo-American support during the last half century for […]
[PDF file]: […] before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq. A report on this, with pictures of babies with gross deformities born in the Falluja hospital, is to be found in Professor Paola Manduca’s ‘The biological […]
[…] fantasies of restoring Russia to the status it had during the Cold War. All our yesterdays ‘George W. Bush misrepresented our work at CIA to sell the Iraq invasion. It’s time to call him what he is: “A liar”’. That is the striking title of a piece on Businessinsider.46 In this, two former CIA […]
[…] fantasies of restoring Russia to the status it had during the Cold War. All our yesterdays ‘George W. Bush misrepresented our work at CIA to sell the Iraq invasion. It’s time to call him what he is: “A liar”’. That is the striking title of a piece on Businessinsider.46 In this, two former CIA […]
[…] fantasies of restoring Russia to the status it had during the Cold War. All our yesterdays ‘George W. Bush misrepresented our work at CIA to sell the Iraq invasion. It’s time to call him what he is: “A liar”’. That is the striking title of a piece on Businessinsider.33 In this, two former CIA […]
