[…] or Iranian targets, and near real-time troop movement data gathered from US-manned AWACS based in Saudi Arabia.’ It is an economic relationship that has held America and Iraq in each others arms. This relationship goes way back: $400 million guarantees by the US Commodity Credit Corporation in 1983, which rose to some $3.8 billion […]
[…] different conclusions.(17) * The spoils of war The Center for Public Integrity has published an updated list of companies that continue to benefit from contracts awarded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Halliburton was the largest single contractor in Iraq in 2004 and its former subsidiary, KBR Inc. (a.k.a. Kellogg, Brown and Root), has carried on […]
Weapons of Mass Deception: The uses of propaganda in Bush’s war on Iraq Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber London: Robinson, 2003, p/b, £6.99 Regime Unchanged: Why the war on Iraq changed nothing Milan Rai London: Pluto, 2003, p/b, £10.99 The Rampton/Stauber book appeared about 6 weeks after the attack on Iraq ended and […]
[…] analysis of British foreign policy by Mark Curtis could not be better timed. With more than a million Britons on the streets of London protesting against the Iraq war earlier this year there is a potentially large audience for a critical review of what led this country to that invasion. Even his title, Web […]
[…] The group’s business front, Far West, Ltd., is said to have CIA-approved contractual dealings with Halliburton for geopolitical purposes in the Caucasus, as well as dealings in Iraq with Diligence LLC, a group with connections to Joe Allbaugh (the FEMA chief in 2001) and to the President’s younger brother Neil Bush. The head of […]
[…] therefore produce two.() US government PR personnel do not have the same luxury. This is principally because the executive they serve flaunted its legitimacy of action in Iraq by single messaging – e.g. insurgents are terrorists – an advertising technique, rather than a PR one.() Cold War PR The US executive’s Iraq PR collapsed […]
[…] being relevant, especially when dealing with such a media saturated (and mediated) series of events as the US led ‘War on Terror’ and invasion and occupation of Iraq? Ahmed’s book was mainly written in the run-up to the final invasion of Iraq, during the period after the events of ‘9-11’. He does a fine […]
Dodgy dossiers Steven Kettell, author of Dirty politics? New Labour, British democracy and the invasion of Iraq (London: Zed Books, 2006), argues that New Labour wanted regime change in Iraq before Bush and before 9/11 and that the production of the WMD Dossier was one of the key components of a broader political strategy […]
[…] This is a curious little book (112 pp.) in which two conservative intelligence academics wrestle with the realities of the events leading up to the attack on Iraq. But what manner of beast is a conservative intelligence academic? The basic view of these gentlemen is that the oiks us need not be […]
[…] the servants’ housing quarters near Bagh-dad airport and remained short of vehicles, air support, computers and even electricity during the initial months of the weapons hunt, the Iraq Survey Group spent its first weeks installing air-conditioned trailers, a new dining facility, state-of-the-art soft-ware and even asprinkler system for a new lawn, accord-ing to officials […]
