[…] a general interest in this most fascinating period in American political history. With the conflict between the Pentagon and American civil society now in the press over Iraq, Talbot’s story of politicians versus the state resonates loudly. With one foot in the ‘alternative’ or radical media (Mother Jones) and one in the major media, […]
[…] and my involvement declined from being branch secretary and local election agent to being just another inactive member, unable to cut the cord. I eventually resigned over Iraq. A conspiracy theorist? Much of the content of this book would be described as conspiracy theories by the major media. I would reject that – and […]
[…] for the U.S. Government on what is termed in the military and intelligence world Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS), sometimes called SQUAD. The system was deployed against Iraq. ‘According to statements made by captured and deserting Iraqi soldiers, however, the most devastating and demoralizing programming was the first known military use of the new, […]
[…] this Near-East region in some detail if we are to gain an understanding of its objectives in the present impasse in which it has enmeshed itself in Iraq; and there can hardly be a more effective means of doing this than by examining relevant reports/papers of some of its administrations departments. Of necessity, these […]
[…] in the knowledge that involvement in or awareness of controversial military operations can be plausibly denied.’ Legislation has yet to appear, although the use of mercenaries in Iraq has, according to some commentators, concentrated ministerial minds, with proposals likely to follow after the next election. (9) Beyond our Ken Kenneth Tynan’s encounter with the […]
[PDF file]: […] replicate is the manner in which the fabricated evidence of weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi al-Qaida connections were ‘sexed-up’ in preparation for the illegal invasion of Iraq (and subsequent war crimes) in 2003.9 By November 2011, Britain’s Tory government had repeated the history of its predecessor by announcing that the MoD would participate […]
[PDF file]: […] USA on the other, run by bankers, public schoolboys (and they are boys for the most part) and the super-rich, is the outcome of this process.28 The Iraq Memory Hole Winston Smith, the central character of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, works for the Ministry of Truth in Airstrip One, which is what Britain is […]
[PDF file]: […] that are being spent on PMCs that provide services related to the ‘Global War on Terror’ and the effective civil war that followed the second invasion of Iraq in 2003. This is the focus of what follows. In 2006 American author Charlie Cray stated that ‘Industry analysts expect it will be a $200 billion-a-year […]
[PDF file]: […] Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair Miles Goslett London, Head of Zeus, 2018, £16.99 ISBN-13: 978-1788543095 Did you know that the body of Iraq weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, who died mysteriously in 2003 after being named by 10 Downing Street for criticising its war-promoting dossier, had been exhumed and […]
[PDF file]: […] his memoir is ‘about counterinsurgency and its journey from the far periphery of US military doctrine to its center’. The reality is that after the failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States is not about to commit large ground forces to a protracted military occupation again any time soon. Even the rise of […]
