[…] to cut supplies as this would cause hardship in the short term and revolution in the medium term. I wondered if he foresaw the 2003 war on Iraq. He writes: ‘As the United States has not managed to unseat Saddam Hussein, it is left with the uncomfortable choice of accepting the Iraqi regime or […]
Greg Palast London: Robinson, 2003, £7.99, p/b As the war on Iraq has reminded us, journalism can be a dangerous vocation: the nearer a reporter, photographer or filmmaker gets to the action, the greater the risks run. Away from the shooting, the hazards are different, though only a little less potent, and Greg […]
[…] and a belief that life should be better for the vast majority of mankind for whom it is unbearable.’ And on the subject of liberty, and the Iraq of his diary, he quotes approvingly T. E. Lawrence: ‘Freedom is taken, not given.’ Glass does not pontificate on the remark – he rarely does on […]
Robert Parry Arlington (VA): The Media Consortium, 2004; $22.95 (US); p/b Order from <www.secrecyandprivilege.com> This is the book I have enjoyed most since the last Lobster and it is one of the best books I have read on American politics and parapolitics. Robert Parry really is very good indeed: he has the serious investigative … Read more
[…] Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) published in June (26) estimates that some 30,000 employees of US and European-based Private Security Companies (PSCs) are at work in Iraq. ‘They have been involved in firefights…..scores of them…..have perished….. add by 20% the number of foreign troops in the country.’ Not that this would be apparent […]
Tony Blair will be remembered not just for the slaughter in Iraq, and the subsequent collapse of Labour in Scotland in face of a resurgent SNP, but as the Labour leader who could have forged common links across Europe but chose to side with one of the continent’s most despised figures. Charles Clarke, one […]
[…] in the courts. More successful examples which also illustrate litigation lobbying’s increasing boundaries could be: British coroners taking on the American government vis-à-vis ‘friendly fire’ deaths in Iraq; Westminster’s recently established All Party Rendition Group. The latter has agreed with human rights groups to use American laws ‘to get Washington to reveal how many […]
[…] WORLD FEATURES SERVICES -80’S VISNEWS CHEESMAN, COL. ROBERT ERNEST CBE (1935) OBE (23) B. 1878 D. 13/2/62 14-18 SERVED EUROPEAN WAR 20-23 PRIVATE SEC. TO HIGH COMMISSIONER IRAQ 25-34 CONSUL N.W. ETHIOPIA 40-42 HEAD OF ETHIOPIAN SECTION INTELLIGENCE, SUDAN DEFENCE FORCE -42 ORIENTAL COUNSELLOR ADDIS ABABA -44 RETIRED CHESWORTH, DONALD B. 30/1/23 LSE ROYAL […]
Empires Apart: America And Russia From The Vikings To Iraq Brian Landers Hove: Picnic Publishing, 2009, £15, p/b Is America an empire? Tsarist Russia and its Soviet successor were certainly seen as such through western eyes. That America is not showing the heavily ideologised world through which we frame history. In a bold […]
[…] chemical agent and destroying much of the evidence. (Why they would do this, given that the intention was to display a willingness to use chemical weapons against Iraq, is not explained). A total of eleven BLU-82s were used in Iraq on unspecified targets. The B-52 is quite capable of reaching the Gulf from Omaha […]
