[…] specific events in the Thatcher period. Some are familiar – the miners’ strike; nukes civil and military; the deaths of Hilda Murrell and Willie McRae; arms for Iraq. These later chapters are less error-strewn (though no better sourced) than his account of the 1974-79 period, perhaps because the material is less complex. When he […]
[…] Tancock’s ‘Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials’ 12 and Andrew Rosthorn’s ‘Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.13 Strewth . . . Most parapolitical research has been done by the left. But a group on the right, calling itself Marco Polo, has done […]
[PDF file]: […] at this time. This was all part of Biblical prophecy. In February 1983, Falwell told a Texas newspaper that he favoured Israel ‘taking portions of present day Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan and all of Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait’.32 Falwell’s Moral Majority was disbanded in 1989, partly as a result of evangelical […]
[…] Tancock’s ‘Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials’ 12 and Andrew Rosthorn’s ‘Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.13 Strewth . . . Most parapolitical research has been done by the left. But a group on the right, calling itself Marco Polo, has done […]
[PDF file]: […] and steal to enrich their masters on our behalf. This Orwellian (and even Heinleinian) reality was obvious from the first moments 9/11 turned into an invasion of Iraq, but it has been in the cards constantly in my lifetime: the Congressional oversight in the 70s led only to an October Surprise in 1980 and […]
[PDF file]: […] As Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson seemed determined to maintain his reputation as the class clown. In 2015 he lead a trade delegation that visited Erbil in northern Iraq. Part of the tour included time at the Jaguar car dealership in the city. The group were shown the newly minted Jaguar F-Type sports car and […]
[PDF file]: […] rebellion among the Arabs of neighboring Khuzestan an easy and cheap way to undermine the ayatollah and destabilize Iran’; that ‘Bands of Iranian Arabs were trained in Iraq, armed, and sent back across the border’; and ‘These Arab guerrillas saw themselves as fighters for independence, but they were dependent on Saddam Hussein, pawns cynically […]
[PDF file]: […] tiny state. In Saudi Arabia the King is not the head of Islam (the agitation for such a role, a Caliph, being behind the current mayhem in Iraq and Syria). Japan and North Korea appear to be quite similar to the UK model – both have heads of state who are (or can be) […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Trump presidency?) The War on Terror was an opportunity to reshape the whole Middle East in the US interest, beginning with the decision to invade Iraq. And then there was the use of torture. He was told ‘. . . again and again in those early days by involved officials who insisted […]
[PDF file]: […] Europe by the USA, the EU and NATO was accompanied by a hubristic liberal-capitalist triumphalism which poisoned and destabilised the international environment. The recent history of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria provides clear evidence of a dialectical process in which Western intervention has fuelled political instability and led to blowback in the form of […]
