[PDF file]: […] a wider failure. Though there were shining exceptions, the mainstream media as a whole failed to tell truth to power in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. It should always be taken into account that it was not only politicians and officials who failed in their duty.’ Self-criticism usually gives weight to that […]
[PDF file]: […] on the implications of the Brussels bombings. ‘The officials,’ we learned, included ‘European and Iraqi intelligence officials and a French lawmaker’ who variously ‘described camps in Syria, Iraq and possibly the former Soviet bloc where attackers are trained to target the West.’ 18 ‘And possibly’ seems a very generous way of putting an insinuation […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘The Tree of Liberty Must Be Replenished from Time to Time with the Blood of Commies’ Luke Mogelson,5 a journalist who had covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and the Ukraine, was in Paris when the scale of the opposition to the Covid lockdown in his home state of Michigan prompted his return […]
[PDF file]: […] came to the use of force in a dangerous and faraway theatre…. George wobbled. One by one the Gulf states decided it was safer to deal with Iraq than to defy it and at the Treaty of Baghdad in 1992 agreed to raise oil prices to pay for a programme of Islamic industrialisation. Prime […]
[PDF file]: […] having to worry so much about the negative PR associated with body-bags: mercenaries don’t arrive back in flag-draped coffins. This disgusting story climaxes with the arrival in Iraq of maybe 100,000 mercenaries, all getting paid many times more than their state-employed equivalents (as usual privatisation means paying a great deal more for a worse […]
[PDF file]: […] the legislation is named after – John McCain’. This snub became the story, not the massive increase in military spending that even ‘eclipsed the peak of annual Iraq War spending’. It ‘was picked up by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, ABC, The Hill, CNN, CBS, the AP, and others’. (p. 79) […]
[…] ‘The Tree of Liberty Must Be Replenished from Time to Time with the Blood of Commies’ Luke Mogelson,5 a journalist who had covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and the Ukraine, was in Paris when the scale of the opposition to the Covid lockdown in his home state of Michigan prompted his return […]
[PDF file]: […] like those of the ‘Cambridge Three’ (then Four, then Five), and Aldrich Ames. The relationship should have reached its nadir during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, which revealed, according to your point of view, either how poor both countries’ intelligence was, or how it was manipulated by politicians for their own ends. […]
[PDF file]: […] the highest in the industrialised west. Palme was active, too, on the international stage into the 1980s, serving at one point as a mediator in the Iran- Iraq war, without success. External admirers of Sweden are usually unaware that, relative to its population, under both Erlander and Palme the country maintained a very large […]
[PDF file]: […] Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton (Dem.), a member of Thornberry’s committee, was a former officer in the US Marine Corps. He had served four tours of duty in Iraq and had then been intimately involved in the botched reconstruction as the US military’s liaison to Iraqi tribal leaders. Moulton buttressed Thornberry’s remarks by adding: ‘Russia […]
