[…] sensible, more pragmatic, more realistic about politics. Starmer welcomed the election of the New Labour government in 1997, although he was to later oppose the invasion of Iraq and took part in the great 15 February 2003 protest demonstration. According to Baldwin, even at the time Starmer ‘never doubted the then prime minister’s sincerity’ […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Clinton discussed using B61-11 tactical nuclear weapons against Libya. The second Bush administration threatened the use of the same nuclear weapons during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; the Obama administration contemplated their use during the 2011 NATO bombings of Libya; Sen. Hilary Clinton has told MSNBC that she would support a nuclear attack […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of Patricia Hewitt, long before the well-known 1990s assistance from the Clintonites (this is still supposed to be a secret1 2). This influence has continued: after the Iraq war Labour paid £530,372 to Mark Penn, a Washington-based adviser to Hillary Clinton. During the run-up to the 2005 election Penn ran secret polling of British […]
[…] be US allies in the region)? They are the last people anyone from the US government would seek to implicate. If you wanted a pretext to attack Iraq, Iran, Libya or Syria, the false flag would be accompanied by links to one (or several) of those countries, not Saudi Arabia.25 This scenario is absurd. […]
[PDF file]: […] a few New Labour luminaries, including departed Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and convicted fraudster Denis MacShane, are part of the HJS circle that strongly backed the Iraq war and the repression of civil liberties that followed the example of the United States after 9/11. This well-referenced report tells us that the HJS promotes […]
[PDF file]: […] responsible for three times as many deaths in the United States as were Islamists’ and that: Just as jihadists have used conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Balkans, Iraq, and Syria to swap tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and solidify transnational networks, so too are WSEs148 using Ukraine as a hub or battlefield laboratory, where […]
[PDF file]: […] The 9/11 attack further strengthened this Christian macho masculinity, with the Christian Right supporting not just the subsequent intervention in Afghanistan, but also the unprovoked invasion of Iraq. In 2002, ‘69 percent of conservative Christians favoured military action, a full 10 percentage points higher than the general population’. As Jerry Falwell proclaimed in a […]
[PDF file]: […] he served as ambassador to Honduras during the US wars in Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s. He then went on to serve as ambassador to occupied Iraq. These assignments are only surprising to those who do not know that he learned counter-insurgency doctrine and practice as a 27-year-old in Vietnam. The same applied […]
