Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

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[PDF file]: Excusing the Iraq war? Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence Frank P. Harvey Cambridge University Press, 2011, £20.99, p/b At a particularly fractious press call in June 2003, an exasperated George W. Bush declared: ‘This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq….. Now, there are some who like to […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

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[PDF file]: […] broadcasting. A core part of his creed was that the white citizens of the US, UK and British Commonwealth were the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel and therefore entitled, according to Biblical prophesy, to inherit the Earth. Armstrong and the Radio Church of God also took the view that the coming Armageddon […]

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

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[PDF file]: […] surviving members, added nearly 200,000 new ones and cleared the party’s debts in the process. But his weak leadership proved no match for his PLP critics, the Israel lobby and their allied establishment forces, all backed by a venomous media. Payne records the resultant doorstep hostility to Corbyn in the ‘red wall’ but doesn’t […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

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[PDF file]: […] just before the publicity campaign began for the third series of the Servant of the People sitcom.135 In September 2018, Kolomoisky moved from Switzerland to Tel Aviv, Israel. Bohdan and Zelensky then made three known joint visits to Tel Aviv in quick succession, during October, November, and December 2018. Neither Bohdan nor Zelensky has […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

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[PDF file]: […] with Tehran. To achieve this, he ordered the CIA to set up a network of legitimate companies across Europe and the Middle East, in particular Britain and Israel, in order to secretly supply illegal arms to Iran. The main British company, called Allivane International, was set up at Cumbernauld near Glasgow with CIA money […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] just before the publicity campaign began for the third series of the Servant of the People sitcom.135 In September 2018, Kolomoisky moved from Switzerland to Tel Aviv, Israel. Bohdan and Zelensky then made three known joint visits to Tel Aviv in quick succession, during October, November, and December 2018. Neither Bohdan nor Zelensky has […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] William Blum put this as succinctly as I could in a piece of his, ‘Another Peace Scare’: ‘We have to keep this in mind – America, like Israel, cherishes its enemies. Without enemies, the United States appears to be a nation without moral purpose and direction. The various managers of the National Security State […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] just before the publicity campaign began for the third series of the Servant of the People sitcom.135 In September 2018, Kolomoisky moved from Switzerland to Tel Aviv, Israel. Bohdan and Zelensky then made three known joint visits to Tel Aviv in quick succession, during October, November, and December 2018. Neither Bohdan nor Zelensky has […]

Tittle-tattle

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[PDF file]: […] No 10 duties for Tony Blair and New Labour in 2003. One of his early freelance engagements – his first was to speak at a Friends of Israel gathering organised by Lord Levy – was to interview big sporting celebrities for Rupert Murdoch’s Times. One of his most impressive interviewees, he told us on […]

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