[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] 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. […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] given the earlier Soviet experience in Afghanistan, good sense should have been enough to avoid this entanglement. What we have to deal with in both Afghanistan and Iraq is American hubris, something into which Tony Blair’s New Labour government wholly and disastrously bought. One criticism of the book is Farrell’s readiness to sometimes accept […]
[PDF file]: […] natural resources of much of See or 12 Keating was Labor Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 until his defeat in the 1996 election. Note that on Iraq, in 2003, Blair preferred the opinions of the President of the US to those held by the leaders of France and Germany or the United Nations […]
[PDF file]: […] not to build council houses which has marked every administration since Mrs Thatcher’s; the poll tax (only repealed because Mrs Thatcher had been ejected); railway privatisation; the Iraq war; the constant ‘reforms’ to the NHS and education; the privatisation of the utilities and of the defence research industry; the PPP system for the London […]
[PDF file]: […] Blair contributed the Foreword. Now to be fair, Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian […]
[PDF file]: […] There is nothing titillating about the routines of Homeland Security or the organisation of the US gulag. People like Jeremy Scahill do not need to masturbate in Iraq to find assassinations.17 They are the bread and butter business of the police and drug enforcement offices in every major US city. And torture – well, […]
