[…] 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]: […] it in slightly different terms. See his views on the ‘stolen narrative’ at . who were there from the mid 1970s through 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, are prime examples of this. They also figure in the second of Scott’s themes here, the deep state control mechanism which is free from formal politics, […]
[PDF file]: […] senior MI5 officer who saves the Service from being being destroyed in a Whitehall shake-up by blackmailing the government with secret information about its role in the Iraq war. And there was a pretty girl who, as in the fantasies of many ageing men, falls in love with Nighy’s character. The character played by […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] and the Gulf states’. As for Britain, we are ‘a pimple that simply doesn’t want to be squeezed from Uncle Sam’s backside’. (pp. 55-57) In the end, Iraq was bombed in December 1998 and MacShane records that according to No 10 special adviser Roger Liddle – later Baron Liddle – ‘Blair was far more […]
[…] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
