The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] John Ward recently on his excellent blog The Slog.90 Dodgy dossier 2 Well, here we are in the blood and chaos caused by the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, ‘justified’ by the ‘dodgy dossier’ prepared for Mr Blair by his allies within the UK intelligence agencies, and what has Whitehall done? Created another ‘dodgy dossier’ […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Tancock’s ‘Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials’ 4 and Andrew Rosthorn’s ‘Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.5 See for example, and or . 1 2 3 or 4 or 5 1 *new* Strewth . . . Most parapolitical research has been done […]

Ukrainian psyops

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[…] Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton (Dem.), a member of Thornberry’s committee, was a former officer in the US Marine Corps. He had served four tours of duty in Iraq and had then been intimately involved in the botched reconstruction as the US military’s liaison to Iraqi tribal leaders. Moulton buttressed Thornberry’s remarks by adding: ‘Russia […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Clinton discussed using B61-11 tactical nuclear weapons against Libya. The second Bush administration threatened the use of the same nuclear weapons during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; the Obama administration contemplated their use during the 2011 NATO bombings of Libya; Sen. Hilary Clinton has told MSNBC that she would support a nuclear attack […]

Who let the dogs out?

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[PDF file]: […] of Patricia Hewitt, long before the well-known 1990s assistance from the Clintonites (this is still supposed to be a secret1 2). This influence has continued: after the Iraq war Labour paid £530,372 to Mark Penn, a Washington-based adviser to Hillary Clinton. During the run-up to the 2005 election Penn ran secret polling of British […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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. […]

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. […]

The Henry Jackson Society and the degeneration of British Neoconservatism: Liberal interventionism, Islamophobia and the ‘war of terror’ by Tom Griffin, et al

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a few New Labour luminaries, including departed Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and convicted fraudster Denis MacShane, are part of the HJS circle that strongly backed the Iraq war and the repression of civil liberties that followed the example of the United States after 9/11. This well-referenced report tells us that the HJS promotes […]

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. […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] The 9/11 attack further strengthened this Christian macho masculinity, with the Christian Right supporting not just the subsequent intervention in Afghanistan, but also the unprovoked invasion of Iraq. In 2002, ‘69 percent of conservative Christians favoured military action, a full 10 percentage points higher than the general population’. As Jerry Falwell proclaimed in a […]

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