[PDF file]: […] with him really strongly. He achieved a certain notoriety when he recommended that the United States embrace its Imperial destiny and send out enlightened administrators to run Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the same way that the British Empire had been run (p. 49). He had obviously been reading too much Niall Ferguson! For […]
[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]: […] gave an “assignment” to transmit $300,000 for the killing of his friend Abu al-Walid when the CIA was concerned al-Walid on leaving Chechnya would go on to Iraq to join up with al-Zarqawi. Why would Dunlop a reputable scholar present the meeting in Khashoggi’s villa as a mere plan for a Russian 9/11 at […]
[PDF file]: […] Taliban without US support, which did rather suggest that they would need continued US support to remain in power. The shift in US attention and resources to Iraq was, from this point of view, a disaster. Second, the Northern Alliance was a gangster organisation of warlords and drug traffickers. Putting them in power was […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] enjoy it, and the fact that it seems futile, objectively, doesn’t mean that its not worth doing.” As he surveys the world through the prism of war-torn Iraq and escalating tensions between Islam and the West. Ramsay’s take on the world is frighteningly pessimistic but articulated in his trademark trenchant tones. “The Americans now […]
[…] specific events in the Thatcher period. Some are familiar – the miners’ strike; nukes civil and military; the deaths of Hilda Murrell and Willie McRae; arms for Iraq. These later chapters are less error-strewn (though no better sourced) than his account of the 1974-79 period, perhaps because the material is less complex. When he […]
[PDF file]: […] leader. Marshall-Andrews’ own particular concerns are with New Labour’s colonial wars and its assault on civil liberties. Blair told barefaced lies to secure British participation in the Iraq War. Marshall-Andrews makes the interesting point that if he had told the truth then he would never have got a Commons majority in favour of war. […]
[…] Europe by the USA, the EU and NATO was accompanied by a hubristic liberal-capitalist triumphalism which poisoned and destabilised the international environment. The recent history of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria provides clear evidence of a dialectical process in which Western intervention has fuelled political instability and led to blowback in the form of […]
[PDF file]: […] and steal to enrich their masters on our behalf. This Orwellian (and even Heinleinian) reality was obvious from the first moments 9/11 turned into an invasion of Iraq, but it has been in the cards constantly in my lifetime: the Congressional oversight in the 70s led only to an October Surprise in 1980 and […]
[PDF file]: […] As Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson seemed determined to maintain his reputation as the class clown. In 2015 he lead a trade delegation that visited Erbil in northern Iraq. Part of the tour included time at the Jaguar car dealership in the city. The group were shown the newly minted Jaguar F-Type sports car and […]
