[…] – of pounds of bribes and general ripping-off of the public purse could be done on the quiet. Hence Malaysia and the Pergau dam fiasco; hence arming Iraq, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Indonesia and who knows which other scum-bag regimes; hence the huge subsidies of the arms industry by the British state. In the Public […]
[…] Instead we have chapters on the Cold War, the Korean War, Suez, Vietnam, the Falklands, the first Gulf War, the Bosnian and Kosovo interventions, and the present Iraq war, only; whose main purpose seem to be to explain how Labour foreign policy has metamorphosed so drastically recently, into its present ‘humanitarian interventionist’ guise. In […]
[…] and strikes, but this has never stopped him doing deals with the union bosses. Most recently, of course, they helped him avoid discussion of the invasion of Iraq at the party conference, something that shows the state of the Labour Party better than anything. But his career actually started with deals with the union […]
The Americans’ catastrophe in Iraq is prompting a rethink of US military tactics: as in, maybe it would be helpful if we knew something about the countries we invade. We need anthropologists, says Dr. Montgomery McFate, in ‘Anthropology and counterinsurgency: the strange story of their curious relationship’, Military Review, March/April 2005 (at ) ‘Anthropology […]
[…] in the courts. More successful examples which also illustrate litigation lobbying’s increasing boundaries could be: British coroners taking on the American government vis-à-vis ‘friendly fire’ deaths in Iraq; Westminster’s recently established All Party Rendition Group. The latter has agreed with human rights groups to use American laws ‘to get Washington to reveal how many […]
[…] WORLD FEATURES SERVICES -80’S VISNEWS CHEESMAN, COL. ROBERT ERNEST CBE (1935) OBE (23) B. 1878 D. 13/2/62 14-18 SERVED EUROPEAN WAR 20-23 PRIVATE SEC. TO HIGH COMMISSIONER IRAQ 25-34 CONSUL N.W. ETHIOPIA 40-42 HEAD OF ETHIOPIAN SECTION INTELLIGENCE, SUDAN DEFENCE FORCE -42 ORIENTAL COUNSELLOR ADDIS ABABA -44 RETIRED CHESWORTH, DONALD B. 30/1/23 LSE ROYAL […]
[…] chemical agent and destroying much of the evidence. (Why they would do this, given that the intention was to display a willingness to use chemical weapons against Iraq, is not explained). A total of eleven BLU-82s were used in Iraq on unspecified targets. The B-52 is quite capable of reaching the Gulf from Omaha […]
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 […]
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[…] 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. […]
