[…] The book is remarkably up-to-date, featuring many events from 2005 and covers all the most obvious ‘conspiracies’ up to and including the disinformation surrounding the invasion of Iraq in 2003. There is a bias towards American material in the book; but the bulk of the extant material emanates from and relates to that country. […]
[…] as Blair met with Putin in the latter’s hunting lodge, 11 October 2002, the Russian President – his menu of demands in return for compliance with America-versus- Iraq in his hand – was given a free rein to deal with the Chechens as he pleases. He will now be able to do so without […]
[…] After the flow of cash from Prague dried up, the NCP started courting other regimes. Mengistu’s Ethiopia was one such, until the Dergue collapsed in mid-1991. (4) Iraq at the time of the Gulf War was also courted (unsuccessfully, it seems), with opposition to Sadam’s regime being replaced with praise of the ‘great revolutionary’ […]
[…] public until the Americans fuck-up and then they mutter in the corner about the dumb, incompetent, cowboy Yanks, as they did most recently over the debacle in Iraq. You may be thinking that I am anti-American. Not so: but I am anti-American foreign policy. My parents were in the Communist Party until the Soviet […]
[…] did that get lost in the dust clouds of the next day’s events!) And there is a very good analysis of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq which he shows was ‘driven by an alliance of….the military-industrial complex and the hard-line Zionists proponents of “greater Israel” in the “promised land”.’ This is a […]
[…] the November issue of the usually worthy but dull New Internationalist by journalist David Hellier describing the events which befell him while investigating the British arming of Iraq in the 1980s. Two of his contacts died in suspicious circumstances, he was knocked down by a car which mounted the pavement, and various media suddenly […]
[…] were warmly welcomed by her fellow neo-conservatives in the White House and Pentagon. As Mylroie herself put it: ‘I take satisfaction that we went to war with Iraq and got rid of Saddam Hussein. The rest is details.’ (17) Notes 1 A typical broadcast would include extracts from ‘…Winston Churchill speeches, a rendition of […]
[…] ‘Another Casualty In the Octopus Case’ (Washington Post, August 28, 1991). In fact, arms merchant Ari Ben-Menasche identified Cardoen as the person who brokered the deal between Iraq and Earl Brian, corrupt functionary of the Reagan administration, for an illegal sale of the PROMIS software. Moyle no doubt imagined himself to be a super […]
[…] exclusively to the Libyan intelligence service, led to charges against two Libyans and sanctions against Libya. Syria and the oil war in the Gulf In August 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. James Baker’s feet didn’t touch the ground for weeks as he flew round the world making alliance deals – either provide men and armour […]
[…] the most to expose wrongdoing. Its published reports are heavily censored. The report into ‘The Handling of Detainees by UK Intelligence Personnel in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq’ was a model in understatement although it showed more nerve than usual. Evidence was taken from NGOs such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch and in […]
