[PDF file]: […] fuelling corruption, but not their exacerbation of the security situation. The part that private contractors – or rather mercenaries – played in worsening the security situation in Iraq is relatively well-known, particularly the exploits of gunmen in the employ of Erik Prince’s Blackwater outfit. Other testimony certainly points towards their playing a 6 similar […]
[…] long list of such subjects – I could fill every issue of Lobster with them – but two that have struck me recently are the effects in Iraq of the use of depleted uranium ammunition by the US (and UK?) forces and the health effects of Monsanto’s popular weedkiller Roundup. For Depleted uranium see, […]
[PDF file]: […] failure to detail The Guardian’s protracted hostility to Corbyn.34 The Observer’s critical reporting and commentary is easier to understand on at least one basis: it supported the Iraq war that Corbyn strongly opposed.35 Both books also offer little detail on the contribution of the broadcasting media to the ‘crisis’. The BBC was consistently critical […]
[PDF file]: […] I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did one big thing. Blair supported the US invasion of Iraq. Twenty years and at least half million dead later, Blair did not apologise. Nor did he acknowledge that the intelligence he had been given was wrong. […]
[PDF file]: […] world’s largest security company with a big interest in ‘homeland security’, airport handling and in Israel. (Lord Reid, as well as being a leading advocate of the Iraq invasion and toughness in the ‘war on terror’, is a longstanding member of Labour Friends of Israel.) Then turn to The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein […]
[PDF file]: […] to the United States are now roughly equal to those of the Middle East, further emphasizing the continent’s strategic importance.’1 Unlike its mega-embassies and military bases in Iraq, Kosovo, and other strategically important locations, the Pentagon has smaller, mobile bases across Africa. The Congressional report tells us that these ‘facilities as “lily pads”, or […]
[PDF file]: […] by a 1988 Senate Committee on Foreign Relations report, which refers to his work as a translator for a weapons inspection team that had visited the Turkey/ Iraq border.47 The U.S. Embassy in Ankara was apparently ‘deeply disappointed’ by the conviction and claimed not to have seen any ‘credible evidence’ to support it.48 That’s […]
[PDF file]: […] to call it “the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine,” Chomsky said. “It’s a very interesting phrase; it was never used before. You look back, you look at Iraq, which was totally unprovoked, nobody ever called it ‘the unprovoked invasion of Iraq’. In fact I don’t know if the term was ever used — if […]
[PDF file]: […] friendless. He features a couple of times in the diaries of the period (Benn, Mullin), usually in the role of a minor comic commentator.1 6 After the Iraq war he was increasingly vituperative about Blair and despised the calculations made at the highest level of the Labour Party in 2003-2004 to readmit Livingstone so […]
[PDF file]: […] emerged as critics of liberal domestic policy, this might be a surprise to its founding members. In his analysis of the CFR’s role in the invasion of Iraq, Raso seems to think the CFR membership of many of the signatories of the Project for a New American Century was more important than the actual […]
