[PDF file]: […] (it now has three). Morrison gave an interview to the BBC in 2004 in which he said that when he heard Tony Blair claiming in 2002 that Iraq posed a ‘serious and current’ threat, he ‘could almost hear the collective raspberry going up around Whitehall.’ 19 That comment got him fired after the committee […]
[PDF file]: […] The British have their ‘Official Secrets’ Act. When the Wikileaks site was launched in 2007 and attained notoriety for publication of infamous actions by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, this platform was heralded and condemned for its disclosures and exposures. Julian Assange is quoted as saying that when he receives documents classified under […]
[PDF file]: […] intellectual authority; and, qua Catholic, his claims to rationality are difficult to take too seriously. Nonetheless this is an interesting and enjoyable polemic. Uncovered: the War on Iraq A film by Robert Greenwald A Blue Dolphin DVD, 2005, www.uncoveredthewaroniraq.com I don’t know what the political affiliations – if any – of the readers of […]
[PDF file]: […] and Perle in the summer of 2001, four months before 9/11. They were discussing with the Turkish ambassador in Washington an arrangement whereby the U.S. would invade Iraq and divide the country. The UK would take the south, the rest would go to the U.S. They were negotiating what Turkey required in exchange for […]
[PDF file]: […] when she was under sedation in a military hospital. Kimche was known in Israel as ‘The Man with the Suitcase’ and conducted dangerous and secret diplomacy in Iraq, Germany and Africa. During several hospital visits he took care not to reveal his name to ‘Ruth Mayer’, who called him ‘Moses’. ‘I told him he […]
[PDF file]: […] Secretary Kissinger: That’s absolutely out of the question. Mr. Sisco: I would think so, too. 1 Oh Canada! Good old Canada! It didn’t join the invasion of Iraq, did it? What an example to this country it set. Alas, it isn’t true. While Canada may not have formally supported the invasion of Iraq, informally […]
[PDF file]: […] when she was under sedation in a military hospital. Kimche was known in Israel as ‘The Man with the Suitcase’ and conducted dangerous and secret diplomacy in Iraq, Germany and Africa. During several hospital visits he took care not to reveal his name to ‘Ruth Mayer’, who called him ‘Moses’. ‘I told him he […]
[PDF file]: […] of the book. A friend of Elizabeth Forsyth read the Gerald James book In The Public Interest,4 about the destruction of James’ company, Astra, in the arms-to- Iraq 3 A quick sketch of Nadir is at . Reviewed in these columns at . For lots of detail see . 4 3 scandal. Astra had […]
[PDF file]: […] to call it “the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine,” Chomsky said. “It’s a very interesting phrase; it was never used before. You look back, you look at Iraq, which was totally unprovoked, nobody ever called it ‘the unprovoked invasion of Iraq’. In fact I don’t know if the term was ever used — if […]
[PDF file]: […] friendless. He features a couple of times in the diaries of the period (Benn, Mullin), usually in the role of a minor comic commentator.1 6 After the Iraq war he was increasingly vituperative about Blair and despised the calculations made at the highest level of the Labour Party in 2003-2004 to readmit Livingstone so […]
