[…] 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]: […] at this time. This was all part of Biblical prophecy. In February 1983, Falwell told a Texas newspaper that he favoured Israel ‘taking portions of present day Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan and all of Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait’.32 Falwell’s Moral Majority was disbanded in 1989, partly as a result of evangelical […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] tiny state. In Saudi Arabia the King is not the head of Islam (the agitation for such a role, a Caliph, being behind the current mayhem in Iraq and Syria). Japan and North Korea appear to be quite similar to the UK model – both have heads of state who are (or can be) […]
[PDF file]: […] be US allies in the region)? They are the last people anyone from the US government would seek to implicate. If you wanted a pretext to attack Iraq, Iran, Libya or Syria, the false flag would be accompanied by links to one (or several) of those countries, not Saudi Arabia.25 This scenario is absurd. […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Trump presidency?) The War on Terror was an opportunity to reshape the whole Middle East in the US interest, beginning with the decision to invade Iraq. And then there was the use of torture. He was told ‘. . . again and again in those early days by involved officials who insisted […]
[PDF file]: […] Johnson’s Tories in 2019. While the Blair government undoubtedly improved the lives of many, it failed to grapple with many of the UK’s underlying issues. After the Iraq war and the banking crisis there was little shine left on the New Labour brand. The successors to Blair and Brown were left to pick up […]
[PDF file]: […] achieved prominence on that title before becoming editor of The Observer. The paper that had courageously opposed Suez in 1956 became a champion for the invasion of Iraq under Alton’s editorship. From 2008 to 2010 he was editor of The Independent. Of late Alton has turned up on television defending News International with an […]
[PDF file]: […] his Dreaming War (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002). 5 Described in Thomas E. Mahl’s Desperate Deception (Virginia : Brassey’s, 1999). 4 6 preceding the assault on Iraq, may turn out to be the most important diplomatic revelation of that atrocity.4 This is letting the cat out of the bag with a vengeance. But […]
