[…] bomb containing VX nerve agent, the most potent chemical weapon in the US CW armoury. The bomb was dropped on elements of the Republican Guard in Southern Iraq, I was informed. Heavy casualties resulted. The operation, directed by the Central Intelligence Agency, was a counter-strike, following an Iraqi Scud that fell on Israel. The […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] destroying the planet is doing the same thing to their brains. Not in front of the children When Colin Powell addressed the UN on the issue of Iraq in early February, UN officials hung a curtain over a reproduction of Picasso’s Guernica which hung on the wall behind the spot where statements are made […]
[…] the figleaf of ‘international support’ for the US while the rest of the EU snigger behind their cocktails? Yes, sir. Send Tornado pilots to their death in Iraq on suicidal low-level bombing missions? Yes sir, if that’s all we have to offer (especially, as Urban tells us, when large procurement programs hang on the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of recent Acts of Parliament (1987 onwards). Plans to publish Acts of Parliament in full from 1996 onwards. Newsgroups alt.desert-storm Subjects include chemical/ biological weapons used in Iraq, depleted uranium, Iraq sanctions, Gulf War Syndrome, birth defects in babies born to Gulf War veterans, US export of CBW-related materials to Iraq. alt.politics.org.cia Mena – […]
[…] magisterial, perhaps than the historical overviews that preceded them. It’s partly that current affairs is a moving target. In the case of why the Americans attacked Iraq, for example, our knowledge of the actual decision-making process is growing by the week as the military and intelligence bureaucracies leak in the great game of […]
[…] – of pounds of bribes and general ripping-off of the public purse could be done on the quiet. Hence Malaysia and the Pergau dam fiasco; hence arming Iraq, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Indonesia and who knows which other scum-bag regimes; hence the huge subsidies of the arms industry by the British state. In the Public […]
