[…] to patriotism is thought to be a no-go area in parts of public service. The Army – the broken knitting needle of an illegal government policy in Iraq – in desperate need of recruits for the Afghan campaign, is stripped of its core entreaty. The irony is that while it is running adverts depicting […]
[…] Mattinson’s overall boss at Chime Communications, Lord Bell, was one of the beneficiaries of taxpayers’ largesse through contracts issued by the Blair government for post-invasion work in Iraq. Bell’s Bell-Pottinger – for a while home to No 10 press chief David Hill where he worked on the Monsanto account – received £3m, according to […]
[…] Nicaragua, the Greek junta, Marcos of the Philippines, Rhee of Korea, the Shah of Iran, 40 years of military dictators in Guatemala, Suharto of Indonesia, Hussein of Iraq, the Brazilian junta, Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, the Taliban of Afghanistan, and others. Dropping powerful bombs on the people of about 25 countries, including 40 […]
[…] of mass destruction’ – in particular those relying on nuclear technology. And all of the nations that have been on the ‘hit list’ at various points – Iraq, Iran, Libya and North Korea – had dealings with the Khan network. In the most awful irony, of those nations it was Iraq that had the […]
[…] at: George W. Bush’s successful derailing of concerted action on climate change; an energy crisis; a $3 trillion war (that’s just the cost to the Americans of Iraq) and a downwardly mobile world economy which will leave millions with little hope of escaping poverty, to name but a few of the major items. Dubya […]
[…] Kennan was a supporter of the Vietnam War, of the neo-Conservative revolution in foreign policy which began with Reagan, and maybe even of the recent war against Iraq. In fact since 1950 his has been one of the leading dissident voices in US foreign policy. For over 50 years Kennan has argued that his […]
[…] columnist Kamm to be a left-winger. (For Kamm ‘left-winger’ means being a member of the Labour Party). It gives him a pitch – ‘left’ support for the Iraq War/’war on terror’ – that the media are supposed to find interesting. You can probably guess his major arguments but you might be surprised by the […]
[PDF file]: The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq Will Banyan N ow that the tenth anniversary of 9/11 has been commemorated, Osama bin Laden is officially dead and the last US combat troops have been withdrawn from Iraq (though private military ‘contractors’ remain), an accounting of the ‘Global War on […]
[PDF file]: DEADLY BETRAYAL The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq Dennis Fritz London and New York: O/R Books, 2024, p/b, £15.74/ $20.00 Robin Ramsay Of course, the first thing I did was google the author’s name. Currently he is director of the Eisenhower Media Network, a dissenting group of ex-US military.1 He served […]
[PDF file]: Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima /9-11/ Iraq John W. Dower New York: W.W. Norton, 2010, $29.95 (US), around £20 (UK), h/b Simon Matthews John Dower is a retired Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an expert on US-Japanese relations. His book compares Al Qaeda’s surprise attack on the US in […]
