Iraqi Oil Supply was Considered to be ‘Vital’ to British Interests By Jonathan Brown, Paul Bignell and Andy McSmith The Independent | April 20, 2011 The British Government saw Iraqi oil as “vital” to the ...
” … Of course, this is the scenario that antiwar activists predicted eight years ago, but no one else, especially the Bush administration, thought it would take so long to play out. … “ Excerpt: ...
Daily Mail | May 29, 2010 The Iraq war inquiry is demanding access to a secret Ministry of Defence report into the shambles surrounding the invasion. The document by a former British commander in Iraq ...
Phony Tony Blair wasn’t so Ordinary After All By Brian Reade Mirror | September 2, 2010 It Was the most soul-lifting image we had seen in Downing Street for decades. The Blairs outside Number 10, ...
” … The documents also confirm that the quest to secure stable oil supplies was central to plans for the invasion of Iraq. … An attached letter reveals that SIS4’s documents were read by then ...
Interview with David Swanson, author, activist and journalist, conducted by Scott Harris After seven years, an independent investigation into the events surrounding the decision taken by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to join the ...
The former spy chief who provided Tony Blair with ‘evidence’ justifying the invasion of Iraq in 2003 is now raking in vast sums of money, working for accountancy firms, stock brokers, oil companies and investment ...
Also see: Watch Tony Blair dodge questions over Chilcot Inquiry in Davos Clash of interests on the Chilcot panel — re: Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies at King’s College London: “Sir Lawrence Freedman was appointed Privy Councilor ...
“… The 2002 National Intelligence Estimate provides further proof that the president and his aides purposefully mischaracterized and exaggerated the dangers posed by the Iraqi regime. …” Twelve years after the U.S. launched its invasion ...
The Islamic militant group ISIS, formerly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and recently rebranded as the so called Islamic State, is the stuff of nightmares. They are ruthless, fanatical, killers, on a mission, and that ...
Lord Dykes asked: ‘Is my noble friend aware that more and more people think it is some kind of attempt to prolong the agony of Mr Blair facing possible war crimes charges?’ Tony Blair could ...
“… One well-informed source told The Times that the report’s findings are far more scathing than expected, and have prompted a legal firestorm deep in Britain’s establishment. … It’s unclear precisely what proportion of the ...
FRANCIS ELLIOTT AND MICHAEL SAVAGE THE TIMES, DECEMBER 18, 2014 DRAFTS of the official inquiry into the Iraq war have sent shockwaves through the British bureaucracy, with key players fighting to tone down or even delete ...
By Spencer S. Hsu, Victoria St. Martin and Keith L. Alexander Washington Post, October 22, 2014 A federal jury in Washington convicted four Blackwater Worldwide guards Wednesday in the fatal shooting of 14 unarmed Iraqis, seven years after the ...
“… A top manager at Blackwater … openly threatened to kill a US State Department official in 2007 if he continued to investigate Blackwater’s corrupt dealings in Iraq …” Government Repeatedly Threatening Reporter Who Exposed ...
The accessories to war crimes are those paid to keep the record straight By John Pilger February 14, 2014 Day of reckoning beckons mainstream media, including the BBC, for enabling war crimes The BBC’s Today ...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) — A group of 56 detainees in Iraqi prisons is suing a U.S. company for the abuse they allegedly suffered by employees who served as interpreters. The Iraqi citizens are suing ...
Photo: Insurgent suspects are led away by US forces. Some of those held in Iraqi custody suffered appalling abuse, the war logs reveal. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian A grim picture of the US and ...
” … While PAE [Pacific Architects & Engineers] said Doherty died from a heart attack, his Iraqi autopsy noted ‘[a] [bleeding] star shaped [sic] blunt wound of 3 cm long … posterior to the top ...
One of the regrets I expressed, in my take on the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, is that I didn’t write in opposition to the many bad arguments for a war I supported. In ...
Tony Blair’s claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are challenged again in Monday’s Panorama. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA BBC’s Panorama reveals fresh evidence that agencies dismissed intelligence from Iraqi foreign minister and spy chief March ...
Photo: Colonel Jim Steele In 2004, with the war in Iraq going from bad to worse, the US drafted in a veteran of Central America’s dirty wars to help set up a new force to ...
The invasion of Iraq was a decade ago – and the public is still waiting to find out what really happened in the run-up By Catherine Bennett The Observer, January 12, 2013 Tony Blair writes ...
PressTV, December 27, 2012 Anti-war campaigners are to hold a protest against ex-UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in London on November 13, 2012. The Iraq inquiry is not to report before autumn 2013 due to ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — A jury on Friday ordered an American military contractor to pay $85 million after finding it guilty of negligence for illnesses suffered by a dozen Oregon soldiers who guarded an oilfield water ...
” … Numerous newspapers and magazines started writing about another scandal brewing in the United States. The key word here is ‘another.’ America has become famous for the crimes, which its servicemen committed against civilians. ...
” … Numerous newspapers and magazines started writing about another scandal brewing in the United States. The key word here is ‘another.’ America has become famous for the crimes, which its servicemen committed against civilians. ...
Evergreen International Aviation, Inc. From SourceWatch Evergreen International Aviation, Inc. is an Oregon-based aviation company with longstanding ties to the CIA. Its huge Evergreen Maintenance Center in Arizona was bought from the Agency, which offered ...
By Jacob Heilbrunn Huffington Post | November 9, 2010 Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder says that George W. Bush is fibbing about him in his new memoir. Bush was furious at Schroeder for winning reelection ...
By Daya Gamage | Asian Tribune | November 2, 2010 WikiLeaks disclosed US military- maintained Iraq War Logs show that a “Wolf Battalion” or “Wolf Brigade” existed in Iraq, which went around terrorizing insurgents. The ...
The Rendon Group Convenes a Congress SourceWatch: “The Rendon Group is a secretive public relations firm that has assisted a number of U.S. military interventions in nations including Argentina, Colombia, Haiti, Iraq, Kosovo, Panama and ...
By Roddy Newman Constantine Report Contributor While there has been much debate about the wars in Iraq, the Balkans and Afghanistan, the most important aspect of those conflicts – the clearly racist, religiously-motivated decision by the American and UK ...
The US government is at the centre of a growing row over the cover-up of torture of detainees in Iraq following the leak of almost 400,000 army field reports. ” … The greatest controversy will ...
