[PDF file]: […] zones as he followed the consequences of the American foreign policy in the Middle East and Afghanistan. The chapters follow the chronology: the imposition of sanctions on Iraq (and about one millions deaths as a result; a UN-sanctioned atrocity); the invasion of Afghanistan and the initial overthrow of the Taliban; the American-led assault on […]
[PDF file]: […] MacQueen who says that it was a key part of the 9/11 events that took the United States and its allies to war in Afghanistan and then Iraq. He claims much more, but first a reminder of the events themselves. Within days of 9/11 a number of people received letters containing anthrax spores, the […]
[PDF file]: […] to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values.’ (emphasis added)23 This from the man who helped compile the ‘dodgy dossier’ on Iraq? John Booth writes about Campbell elsewhere in this issue and he pointed me towards a 2012 essay on him, ‘Britain loves a war criminal’.24 In that, […]
[…] to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values.’ (emphasis added)23 This from the man who helped compile the ‘dodgy dossier’ on Iraq? John Booth writes about Campbell elsewhere in this issue and he pointed me towards a 2012 essay on him, ‘Britain loves a war criminal’.24 In that, […]
[…] to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values.’ (emphasis added)23 This from the man who helped compile the ‘dodgy dossier’ on Iraq? John Booth writes about Campbell elsewhere in this issue and he pointed me towards a 2012 essay on him, ‘Britain loves a war criminal’.24 In that, […]
[…] to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values.’ (emphasis added)10 This from the man who helped compile the ‘dodgy dossier’ on Iraq? John Booth writes about Campbell elsewhere in this issue and he pointed me towards a 2012 essay on him, ‘Britain loves a war criminal’.11 In that, […]
[PDF file]: […] American foreign policy. Thus the state which is apparently agitated about the use of ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria used depleted uranium and phosphorous in their assault on Iraq, drenched much of Vietnam and bits of Laos and Cambodia in Agent Orange, and – lest we forget – recruited the Japanese 35 I discussed this […]
[PDF file]: […] itself as “one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry.”) When viewed in the context of the US/ NATO wars in Iraq and Kuwait (The Gulf War: 1990-1991), Kosovo (1999), Afghanistan (2001–present), and Iraq (2003–2011), one could even conclude that the grand vision of Cheney and others in […]
[PDF file]: […] 9 See . 3 intelligence thereafter remained central to the development of neoconservatism at every major turning point from Team B to Iran-Contra to the War on Iraq.’ That last sentence says in polite academic terms what I would put this way: false intelligence was critical to the recreation of the Soviet ‘threat’. When […]
[PDF file]: […] Labour Party’s actual history in office; but that is another matter. Which brings us to Blair’s wars. How does Brown deal with British involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, fighting in the service of the American Empire? In his memoir, Brown remembers how on 11 September 2001 he had ‘cried at the carnage inflicted on […]
