[PDF file]: […] his Dreaming War (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002). 5 Described in Thomas E. Mahl’s Desperate Deception (Virginia : Brassey’s, 1999). 4 6 preceding the assault on Iraq, may turn out to be the most important diplomatic revelation of that atrocity.4 This is letting the cat out of the bag with a vengeance. But […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Trump presidency?) The War on Terror was an opportunity to reshape the whole Middle East in the US interest, beginning with the decision to invade Iraq. And then there was the use of torture. He was told ‘. . . again and again in those early days by involved officials who insisted […]
[PDF file]: […] at this time. This was all part of Biblical prophecy. In February 1983, Falwell told a Texas newspaper that he favoured Israel ‘taking portions of present day Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan and all of Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait’.32 Falwell’s Moral Majority was disbanded in 1989, partly as a result of evangelical […]
[PDF file]: […] tiny state. In Saudi Arabia the King is not the head of Islam (the agitation for such a role, a Caliph, being behind the current mayhem in Iraq and Syria). Japan and North Korea appear to be quite similar to the UK model – both have heads of state who are (or can be) […]
[PDF file]: […] those wanting to go to university, lower than average investment in health care, poor unemployment benefits and no appreciable investment in the arts. And in foreign policy, Iraq. By 2010 the turn-out gap between the under 35s and the over 55s had widened to 20% producing David Cameron and Brexit (in the 2016 EU […]
[PDF file]: […] achieved prominence on that title before becoming editor of The Observer. The paper that had courageously opposed Suez in 1956 became a champion for the invasion of Iraq under Alton’s editorship. From 2008 to 2010 he was editor of The Independent. Of late Alton has turned up on television defending News International with an […]
[PDF file]: […] Johnson’s Tories in 2019. While the Blair government undoubtedly improved the lives of many, it failed to grapple with many of the UK’s underlying issues. After the Iraq war and the banking crisis there was little shine left on the New Labour brand. The successors to Blair and Brown were left to pick up […]
[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 […]
[…] ‘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]: […] With a CV combining the roles of trade union leader and merchant banker, Triesman was General Secretary of the Labour Party at the time of the 2003 Iraq invasion, having previously attacked the New Statesman in 2002 for articles on the influence of Israel supporters on the Blair government. He is a member of […]
