[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a US president tries to advocate a contrary view. Thus, for instance, attempts to resolve the occupation of the Golan Heights are invariably ignored, delayed or wrecked. Iraq Perhaps the most interesting chapter in the book deals with the 2003 invasion of Iraq which, the authors argue, was triggered by intense Israeli lobbying of […]
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 […]
Richard Keeble University of Luton Press, Luton, 1997, £14.95 Richard Keeble – a former journalist and now Course Director of the BA in Journalism degree at City University, London – makes his stance clear in the first chapter of this well researched study: There was no Gulf war of 1991…It was nothing less than a […]
[…] and ordnance information is from Modern Warplanes, by Doug Richardson, Salamander Books, 1982. It would have been Saddam Hussein’s most heartfelt wish, to have the US attack Iraq with nerve gas during the 1991 Gulf War. He could then have postured as the victim of biochemical warfare, rather than being slated as the aggressor. […]
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[…] municipal elections. A Question of Honour was ghostwritten for Blair’s chief fundraiser by Ned Temko, the editor of The Jewish Chronicle for 15 years before joining the Iraq war-supporting Observer in 2005. Some thought it an odd move for a double Pulitzer Prize nominee and Israeli historian to become a weekly paper transport correspondent. […]
