The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

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[PDF file]: […] structures, often with the support of NGOs and so-called ‘civil society’ organisations in places where the US has or is attempting to destroy indigenous institutions, e.g. in Iraq or Afghanistan. That is why it has been rightly said that the US National Endowment for Democracy has simply absorbed a range of functions and technologies […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

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[PDF file]: […] the revolving door comes in handy. A notable past Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton was James Woolsey, former director of the CIA and cheerleader for the Iraq war – which, incidentally, became one of the most rewarding boondoggles of the 21st Century.46 Along with the intelligence community, defence will be the other U.K. […]

Consultants Challen

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[…] the revolving door comes in handy. A notable past Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton was James Woolsey, former director of the CIA and cheerleader for the Iraq war – which, incidentally, became one of the most rewarding boondoggles of the 21st Century.46 Along with the intelligence community, defence will be the other U.K. […]

A Radical History of Britain by Edward Vallance

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[…] radical history of Britain, certainly for one 16 Strafford notes in his Preface that several years later our Lord Falconer, Lord Chancellor at the time of the Iraq invasion, told him ‘that whatever the size of the march the Government would not have changed its mind.’ Which is what we all suspected anyway. Tony […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] be US allies in the region)? They are the last people anyone from the US government would seek to implicate. If you wanted a pretext to attack Iraq, Iran, Libya or Syria, the false flag would be accompanied by links to one (or several) of those countries, not Saudi Arabia.25 This scenario is absurd. […]

Various: Political life in Britain by Tom Easton

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[PDF file]: […] Labour leader on a local council miles away making a bit of cash-in-hand, focus group money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] in 2017.1 3 Across the world the casualties from the state of almost permanent war that followed 11 September 2001 are vastly higher. Most killed in Afghanistan, Iraq and other parts of the Middle East were as innocent as those leaving their East Coast homes that sunny morning only to leap to their deaths […]

President Putin and Sochi 2014 PR

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] principally as a result of the actions over a decade ago of ‘Crusader’ President Bush and his sidekick Prime Minister Blair (the immoral and illegal invasion of Iraq), the domino effect still in progress (now in Syria), has led to the decimation throughout the region of all ancient Middle Eastern Christian communities. This Christian […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] his Dreaming War (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002). 5 Described in Thomas E. Mahl’s Desperate Deception (Virginia : Brassey’s, 1999). 4 6 preceding the assault on Iraq, may turn out to be the most important diplomatic revelation of that atrocity.4 This is letting the cat out of the bag with a vengeance. But […]

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