Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

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[PDF file]: […] ‘The Tree of Liberty Must Be Replenished from Time to Time with the Blood of Commies’ Luke Mogelson,5 a journalist who had covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and the Ukraine, was in Paris when the scale of the opposition to the Covid lockdown in his home state of Michigan prompted his return […]

Secrecy in Britain

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[PDF file]: […] FOI Act there were no ministerial vetoes – the first one was in 2009 and related to the contents of the legal advice on military action against Iraq. Subsequently there have been another 5, including one prohibiting the disclosure of correspondence between Mr Charles Windsor and government ministers. One can only guess why these […]

Holding Pattern

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[PDF file]: […] his rather pally relationship with a known Russian spy. See either man. Chilcot There is so much to be said about Sir John Chilcot’s Inquiry into the Iraq War. It ironically delivered a political Weapon of Mass Destruction that no-one was expecting and it was a shame that press coverage of the report was […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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[…] ‘The Tree of Liberty Must Be Replenished from Time to Time with the Blood of Commies’ Luke Mogelson,5 a journalist who had covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and the Ukraine, was in Paris when the scale of the opposition to the Covid lockdown in his home state of Michigan prompted his return […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

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[PDF file]: […] structures, often with the support of NGOs and so-called ‘civil society’ organisations in places where the US has or is attempting to destroy indigenous institutions, e.g. in Iraq or Afghanistan. That is why it has been rightly said that the US National Endowment for Democracy has simply absorbed a range of functions and technologies […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] from the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the U.S. and NATO allies repudiated the United Nations Security Council by going to war in Iraq on false pretenses. In 2004, the U.S. continued with NATO enlargement, this time to the Baltic states and countries in the Black Sea region (Bulgaria and […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

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[PDF file]: […] immediately after he quit being Prime Minister in June 2007 by the MidEast Quartet (the EU, Russia, the UN and the USA). The man who had invaded Iraq and who, in his memoirs, regretted that they had not gone on to replace the regimes in Syria and Iran, was silent during the 2009 assault […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

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[PDF file]: […] sensible, more pragmatic, more realistic about politics. Starmer welcomed the election of the New Labour government in 1997, although he was to later oppose the invasion of Iraq and took part in the great 15 February 2003 protest demonstration. According to Baldwin, even at the time Starmer ‘never doubted the then prime minister’s sincerity’ […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] in 2017.1 3 Across the world the casualties from the state of almost permanent war that followed 11 September 2001 are vastly higher. Most killed in Afghanistan, Iraq and other parts of the Middle East were as innocent as those leaving their East Coast homes that sunny morning only to leap to their deaths […]

A Radical History of Britain by Edward Vallance

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[…] radical history of Britain, certainly for one 16 Strafford notes in his Preface that several years later our Lord Falconer, Lord Chancellor at the time of the Iraq invasion, told him ‘that whatever the size of the march the Government would not have changed its mind.’ Which is what we all suspected anyway. Tony […]

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