Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

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[PDF file]: […] ‘The Tree of Liberty Must Be Replenished from Time to Time with the Blood of Commies’ Luke Mogelson,5 a journalist who had covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and the Ukraine, was in Paris when the scale of the opposition to the Covid lockdown in his home state of Michigan prompted his return […]

Governing from the Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment by Thomas Hippler

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[PDF file]: […] by Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (known as the ‘Mad Mullah’ by the British) in Somalia was considered a great success. The British made use of aerial bombardment in Iraq, Egypt, Russia and the Sudan, and even considered making use of it against any revolutionary outbreaks in Britain itself. It was not just deployed against insurgents, […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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[…] ‘The Tree of Liberty Must Be Replenished from Time to Time with the Blood of Commies’ Luke Mogelson,5 a journalist who had covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and the Ukraine, was in Paris when the scale of the opposition to the Covid lockdown in his home state of Michigan prompted his return […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] from the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the U.S. and NATO allies repudiated the United Nations Security Council by going to war in Iraq on false pretenses. In 2004, the U.S. continued with NATO enlargement, this time to the Baltic states and countries in the Black Sea region (Bulgaria and […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

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[PDF file]: […] value, though, if other nations agreed to abide by them. The US quickly showed it had zero interest in the Blair Doctrine when planning its attack on Iraq. It also turned out that Blair didn’t have much interest in it either. Despite France and Germany urging compliance with ongoing UN initiatives, all other options […]

Chemtrails

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[PDF file]: […] the same is true of all UN treaties (think of Israel’s decades-long violation of the Geneva Conventions in occupied Palestine, or Britain and America’s illegal invasion of Iraq in violation of the UN Charter, or the social security cuts across Europe in flagrant violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ad infinitum). Sadly, […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

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[PDF file]: […] sensible, more pragmatic, more realistic about politics. Starmer welcomed the election of the New Labour government in 1997, although he was to later oppose the invasion of Iraq and took part in the great 15 February 2003 protest demonstration. According to Baldwin, even at the time Starmer ‘never doubted the then prime minister’s sincerity’ […]

Apocryphylia

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[PDF file]: […] Germany 18%, Japan 21% and Russia 22%. A study of major and/or western nations shows that only Montenegro, Pakistan, Eire, Swaziland, Cuba, Turkmenistan, Angola, Malawi, Libya and Iraq invest less in their own economies than the UK. The announcements now being made about a UK economic recovery (the definition of which is rather curious) […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] responsible for three times as many deaths in the United States as were Islamists’ and that: Just as jihadists have used conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Balkans, Iraq, and Syria to swap tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and solidify transnational networks, so too are WSEs148 using Ukraine as a hub or battlefield laboratory, where […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

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[PDF file]: […] immediately after he quit being Prime Minister in June 2007 by the MidEast Quartet (the EU, Russia, the UN and the USA). The man who had invaded Iraq and who, in his memoirs, regretted that they had not gone on to replace the regimes in Syria and Iran, was silent during the 2009 assault […]

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