A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

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[PDF file]: […] emerged as critics of liberal domestic policy, this might be a surprise to its founding members. In his analysis of the CFR’s role in the invasion of Iraq, Raso seems to think the CFR membership of many of the signatories of the Project for a New American Century was more important than the actual […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

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[PDF file]: […] Left Attack Bilderberg, The Real 1% Dominated By White Males?’, Infowars, 3 June 2017, or . 6 first whispers were heard of the 1999 Kosovo and 2003 Iraq wars.’7 It is also claimed that Bilderberg instigated the 1973 Arab oil embargo, for the sinister purpose of channelling the industrialised world’s wealth via the Arab […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

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[PDF file]: […] hardline, right-wing Republican. He first got involved in politics in 1964, campaigning for Barry Goldwater and he was one of the architects of the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. He was a staunch advocate of regime change as a US strategy and was particularly exercised about Iran and the improvement in Iran’s […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did one big thing. Blair supported the US invasion of Iraq. Twenty years and at least half million dead later, Blair did not apologise. Nor did he acknowledge that the intelligence he had been given was wrong. […]

Her Majesty’s secret servants

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[PDF file]: […] senior MI5 officer who saves the Service from being being destroyed in a Whitehall shake-up by blackmailing the government with secret information about its role in the Iraq war. And there was a pretty girl who, as in the fantasies of many ageing men, falls in love with Nighy’s character. The character played by […]

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

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[PDF file]: […] and the Gulf states’. As for Britain, we are ‘a pimple that simply doesn’t want to be squeezed from Uncle Sam’s backside’. (pp. 55-57) In the end, Iraq was bombed in December 1998 and MacShane records that according to No 10 special adviser Roger Liddle – later Baron Liddle – ‘Blair was far more […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

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[PDF file]: […] fuelling corruption, but not their exacerbation of the security situation. The part that private contractors – or rather mercenaries – played in worsening the security situation in Iraq is relatively well-known, particularly the exploits of gunmen in the employ of Erik Prince’s Blackwater outfit. Other testimony certainly points towards their playing a 6 similar […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] long list of such subjects – I could fill every issue of Lobster with them – but two that have struck me recently are the effects in Iraq of the use of depleted uranium ammunition by the US (and UK?) forces and the health effects of Monsanto’s popular weedkiller Roundup. For Depleted uranium see, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] long list of such subjects – I could fill every issue of Lobster with them – but two that have struck me recently are the effects in Iraq of the use of depleted uranium ammunition by the US (and UK?) forces and the health effects of Monsanto’s popular weedkiller Roundup. For Depleted uranium see, […]

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