[PDF file]: […] joining the government as Minister for European Trade and Competitiveness. He, too, inevitably became a Baron, courtesy of New Labour. As the US government prepared for the Iraq War, Browne publicly warned ‘the Blair government that British oil companies would lose out against their American 10 Tom Bower, The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed […]
[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 […]
[…] Tancock’s ‘Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials’ 35 and Andrew Rosthorn’s ‘Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.36 Labour’s problem Looking through old issues, I noticed that in my column in number 64 I had reproduced Simon Lee’s summary of his 2012 paper […]
[PDF file]: […] 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]: […] value, though, if other nations agreed to abide by them. The US quickly showed it had zero interest in the Blair Doctrine when planning its attack on Iraq. It also turned out that Blair didn’t have much interest in it either. Despite France and Germany urging compliance with ongoing UN initiatives, all other options […]
[PDF file]: […] the same is true of all UN treaties (think of Israel’s decades-long violation of the Geneva Conventions in occupied Palestine, or Britain and America’s illegal invasion of Iraq in violation of the UN Charter, or the social security cuts across Europe in flagrant violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ad infinitum). Sadly, […]
[…] by M.I.5. (Port Talbot ; Badger Moon Publishers, 1989). 18 See for example, and or . 19 20 21 or 22 8 another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.23 Strewth . . . Most parapolitical research has been done by the left. But a group on the right, calling itself Marco Polo, has done […]
[PDF file]: […] Germany 18%, Japan 21% and Russia 22%. A study of major and/or western nations shows that only Montenegro, Pakistan, Eire, Swaziland, Cuba, Turkmenistan, Angola, Malawi, Libya and Iraq invest less in their own economies than the UK. The announcements now being made about a UK economic recovery (the definition of which is rather curious) […]
[…] Tancock’s ‘Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials’ 12 and Andrew Rosthorn’s ‘Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.13 8 See for example, and or . 9 10 11 or 12 or 13 5 Strewth . . . Most parapolitical research has been done […]
[…] responsible for three times as many deaths in the United States as were Islamists’ and that: Just as jihadists have used conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Balkans, Iraq, and Syria to swap tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and solidify transnational networks, so too are WSEs148 using Ukraine as a hub or battlefield laboratory, where […]
