[PDF file]: […] he served as ambassador to Honduras during the US wars in Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s. He then went on to serve as ambassador to occupied Iraq. These assignments are only surprising to those who do not know that he learned counter-insurgency doctrine and practice as a 27-year-old in Vietnam. The same applied […]
[PDF file]: […] having to worry so much about the negative PR associated with body-bags: mercenaries don’t arrive back in flagdraped coffins. This disgusting story climaxes with the arrival in Iraq of maybe 100,000 mercenaries, all getting paid many times more than their state equivalents (as usual privatisation means paying a great deal more for a worse […]
[PDF file]: […] be abused elsewhere. Grange, now dead, subsequently resigned his post while under investigation for failing to investigate a judge accused 1 Rose later spread some of the Iraq War propaganda and then tried to rehabilitate himself with an article in the New Statesman openly admitting that he had for years been open to ‘manipulation’ […]
[PDF file]: […] embedding in what is for the rest of them a clear clique with a deeply pro-establishment bent. Those who were in Parliament at the time supported the Iraq war, which doesn’t bode well for their intelligence analysis. Now Brexit has sharpened some of their antipathy to the serial rebel Corbyn. Probably speaking for all […]
[PDF file]: […] bomb during an air raid, with several officers killed but nevertheless reported with grim irony as ‘killed in action’! (p. 36) Smiley went on to serve in Iraq and Syria before taking part in the 2 little known British occupation of Iran, a joint operation with the Russians. For a while, he was stationed […]
[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 […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay The right madness I was flipping through Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable (Fontana, 1995) about the influence of the ‘think tanks’ on the Thatcher revolution, and noticed a quote from a 1968 Fabian pamphlet on the then politically insignificant ‘New Right’ – essentially the Institute for Economic Affairs […]
[PDF file]: […] Johnson at The Spectator and was its political correspondent at the time of 9/11. Not long afterwards his comfortable and well-rewarded worldview changed. The turning point was Iraq, and my realisation that the British state was party to a lie about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in order to justify an illegal […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[PDF file]: […] usurp the role reserved to the Crown. * The military were upset. Like most people who knew something about Saddam Hussein, they didn’t really want the second Iraq war, they wanted to leave Afghanistan much earlier, were fed up with Chancellor Brown’s cuts and 18 This reality was voiced by Lord Ashdown during the […]
