[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Tell me lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq ed. David Millar London: Pluto, 2003, £12.99, p/back One of the downsides of appearing every six months is that occasionally books arrive just too late for the issue in which they should appear and by the time the next issue appears […]
[…] 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 […]
[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anniversary of 9/11 has been commemorated, Osama bin Laden is officially dead and the last US combat troops have been withdrawn from Iraq (though private military ‘contractors’ remain), an accounting of the ‘Global War on […]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]: Useful idiot The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq Emma Sky Atlantic Books: 2015, £18.99, h/b D efeated armies often console themselves by constructing a ‘stab in the back’ myth. The war was going well, victory was in sight, but the politicians back home let the troops down. Most famously, the German […]
[PDF file]: Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy? Andrew Rosthorn A sil Nadir was sentenced to 10 years in prison on 23 August 2012, for stealing £29 million from his company and from its North Cyprus subsidiary Uni-Pac. Soon after Justice Minister Chris Grayling rejected Nadir’s request for a transfer from a British […]
[…] of the Arabian American Oil Company. At the time (pre-Suez) Britain successfully forced a Saudi withdrawal. The British wanted the oil reserves to be exploited by the Iraq Petroleum Company, a UK-dominated concern. 2 When events started up again in 1958 it was not only after Suez but also after the April 1957 Defence […]
[…] syndrome’ – run stories of doubtful merit if other news outlets are doing the same. Of this last he gives the example of Alton, editor of the Iraq war-supporting Observer being in the habit of ‘speaking on Saturday afternoon to Michael Williams, the deputy editor of his supposed competitor, The Independent on Sunday, to […]
