[…] San Jose Mercury News, detailing links between cocaine traffickers and the Nicaraguan contra network, plus links, including Covert Operations (Iran/contra; INSLAW affair; BNL affair – arming of Iraq by western nations including US, Britain, Germany, Italy; COINTELPRO lives – evidence suggests aspects of the program continue). Cold War Legacy http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/coldwar/index.html Extract from Interim Report […]
[…] manipulation of intelligence and the creation of weapons ‘gaps’; Cuba, Vietnam; the second Cold War, ‘star wars’ and the collapse of the Soviet empire; the Clinton years, Iraq and ‘shock and awe’ – a history of the Pentagon’s role in post-war America. En route there are portraits of the leading figures, both military and […]
[…] and Steel Institute. Another AMAX director, J.D. Bonney, was born in Blackpool in 1930 and joined AMAX in the sixties. Between 1959 and 1960 he worked for Iraq Petroleum Co, owned by Shell, B.P. and other oil companies. More significantly for us he has been vice president of SOCAL since 1972 (SOCAL Europe, that […]
[…] manufacturers. What they don’t probe, in any great depth, are Aitken’s unorthodox political connections. He was co-director, with Gerald James, of BMARC (the shippers of ‘arms to Iraq’). Readers of James’ memoir will remember him, back in 1973/74 in UNISON with G. K. Young. Similarly we are told that one of Aitken’s close advisers […]
[…] these guys are fighting its class war.’ (p. 43) Palast believes that you should always follow the money. His account of the moves behind the invasion of Iraq is unlike any other I have seen. He sees the role of what he calls ‘big oil’ as much more prominent than most commentators; and offers […]
[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 […]
