[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]: […] 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 […]
[…] of intelligence thereafter remained central to the development of neoconservatism at every major turning point from Team B to Iran-Contra 9 See . 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] in time people will understand this is not a problem we have caused, it’s a problem we have got caught up in….The reasons Kosovo worked and in Iraq and Afghanistan it was really difficult was because of the intervention of radical Islam….’1 3 Never mind the Anglo-American support during the last half century for […]
[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 […]
[…] that of the United States national security structure’.12 And the Foreign Affairs review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its gophers, like the UK) was just a mistake caused by the US and Saddam Hussein not understanding each other. Having thus […]
[PDF file]: […] time of Whitlam’s dismissal, and leaked the explosive story of Whitlam’s Iraqi benefactors, spicing it up further with allegations that Whitlam was going to leak information to Iraq about Arab discussions with Henry Kissinger. And of course, in February 1976 with Whitlam back in opposition, Mr Murdoch duly published it. However, he displayed his […]
[…] before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq A report on this, with pictures of babies with gross deformities born in the Falluja hospital, is to be found in Professor Paola Manduca’s ‘The biological […]
[…] in Afghanistan has given the British Army a raison d’être it has lacked for many years, and new 11 For details see the case of Fallujah in Iraq discussed at 12 The joke has it that a political gaff is a politician telling the truth. 13 LVO = Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order. […]
