[PDF file]: […] those to Malta. But Ashton also puts that into political context by reminding us that in the 1980s, when Iran enjoyed US support during its war with Iraq, Libya was clearly targeted by the Reagan Administration. The shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 encouraged Thatcher to become the only European leader to allow […]
[PDF file]: […] global NATO – replacing the UN in attempting to resolve international crises. This process started with the Serbian intervention of 1999 and then extended to Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), Syria (2012) as well as to Asia and the Pacific in a show of strength against China. The second Cold War Sakwa argues […]
[PDF file]: […] is: Tell them what they want to hear, you’ll earn more money. With the codicil: Let your imagination be unconfined! (Who could forget Curveball’s role in the Iraq debacle?) And Somersett certainly let his imagination run wild. So, Adams goes out looking for Milteer, eventually finds him, and puts to him the five questions […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] leader. Marshall-Andrews’ own particular concerns are with New Labour’s colonial wars and its assault on civil liberties. Blair told barefaced lies to secure British participation in the Iraq War. Marshall-Andrews makes the interesting point that if he had told the truth then he would never have got a Commons majority in favour of war. […]
[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 […]
[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]: Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. Peter Dale Scott This essay was written in the summer of 1977. I lost track of it in subsequent summers, when I first suffered a major illness, and then was side-tracked into preparation of a trade book on the Kennedy Assassination (Beyond Conspiracy) that was eventually killed by its […]
[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 […]
