Felicity Arbuthnot
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Syria and “Conspiracy Theories”: It is a Conspiracy By Felicity Arbuthnot
4 September 2013 — Global Research “We have met the enemy and he is us.” (Walt Kelly, 1913-1973.) It was political analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, in November 2006, who wrote in detail(1) of US plans for the Middle East: “The term ‘New Middle East’, was introduced to the world in June 2006, in Tel Aviv, by Continue reading
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ColdType Issue 77: The Crime of War…
This month’s cover story is an 8-page graphic representation of Wilfred Owen’s classic poem about the use of poison gas in World War I, a poem that has assumed greater resonance in this tumultuous time. Other important stories in this issue include David Edwards’ examination of the media’s hypocritical responses to other massacres, revolutions and… Continue reading
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“Perfidious Albion”- The View of the U.S. National Security Archive? By Felicity Arbuthnot
This week, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the CIA-MI6 overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossaddegh, on 19th August 1953, the (US) National Security Archive has released documents confirming the details of the coup and the grubby US-UK involvement. Continue reading
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“Perfidious Albion”- The View of the U.S. National Security Archive? By Felicity Arbuthnot
This week, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the CIA-MI6 overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossaddegh, on 19th August 1953, the (US) National Security Archive has released documents confirming the details of the coup and the grubby US-UK involvement. Continue reading
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Two Births: A Gilded Arrival and a Poisoned Legacy By Felicity Arbuthnot
On 22nd July two babies were born – in different worlds. Prince George Alexander Louis, son of Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, arrived in the £5,000 a night Lindo Wing of London’s St. Mary’s Hospital, weighing a super healthy 8lbs 6 oz. On the same day, a universe away, in Falluja, Iraq –… Continue reading
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“Liberating Iraqis”, Limb by Limb, Life by Life, Home by Home, Gene by Gene By Felicity Arbuthnot
In these days of the tenth anniversary of the illegal invasion and near destruction of Iraq, answers are owed not alone for the dead, but to the cancer stricken, the deformed, to their parents, their siblings and all Iraqis. They were left with a land poisoned by depleted uranium in 1991, the burden ever building… Continue reading
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Her Majesty’s “Post Imperial” Government in Crisis: Prime Minister Cameron in Blunderland By Felicity Arbuthnot
Public anger and resentment is palpably mounting against pretty well all policies in a government seen as completely blind to the reality in Britain’s villages, towns and cities. Continue reading
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Illegal Invasions, “Rogue States”, Forgotten Victims and a Shaming Plea By Felicity Arbuthnot
The usual suspects have embarked on another mass butchery – sorry “training exercise” – in mega-resource-rich Mali, and are meddling, with lethality, in Algeria. The UK, ever keen to kill, has gone from the Prime Minister’s “no boots on the ground” assurances, to “Operation Creep” in barely over a week. Continue reading
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Obama Inauguration Day: Two Nobel Peace Laureates, “Drones Apart”. Martin Luther King: “From Every Mountainside, Let Freedom Ring.” By Felicity Arbuthnot
In the most blatant act of symbolism, as Africa is now threatened by a President who touted the importance of his African roots four years ago, Obama reaffirmed his Presidential oath today on both Abraham Lincoln’s Bible – and that of Martin Luther King – on the day dedicated to Martin Luther King. Continue reading
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Obama Inauguration Day: Two Nobel Peace Laureates, “Drones Apart”. Martin Luther King: “From Every Mountainside, Let Freedom Ring.” By Felicity Arbuthnot
In the most blatant act of symbolism, as Africa is now threatened by a President who touted the importance of his African roots four years ago, Obama reaffirmed his Presidential oath today on both Abraham Lincoln’s Bible – and that of Martin Luther King – on the day dedicated to Martin Luther King. Continue reading
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Iraq: A Twenty Two Year Genocide By Felicity Arbuthnot
Then Secretary of State James Baker’s vow to: “reduce Iraq to a pre-industrial age” was being minutely executed over what was to become a forty three day blitz, which morphed in to a thirteen year, vicious, murderous, one sided war of attrition and ultimately illegal invasion and occupation. Continue reading
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The Age of the Siege: Sanctions Are An Act Of War by Felicity Arbuthnot
The siege of Leningrad is still considered the most lethal siege in world history, a shocking “racially motivated starvation policy”, described as: “an integral part of Nazi policy in the Soviet Union during World War 11.” Sieges now extend to entire countries, they have become the torture before the destruction. And they are not counted… Continue reading
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Illegal Occupation of Iraq: US-UK Crimes against Humanity By Felicity Arbuthnot
In the light of the fact that it transpires that twenty seven Foreign Office lawyers concluded unanimously that the invasion of Iraq was illegal I write to draw your attention to just a few of the the chilling events currently taking place in Iraq under the US-UK’s despotic, imposed, puppet Prime Minister. Continue reading
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America’s Hype over WMD: Five Invasion Plots, Three Continents, Identical Lies By Felicity Arbuthnot
As the sabre rattling against Syria gets ever louder, the allegations ever wilder and double standards, stirring, plotting and terrorist financing (sorry: “aiding the legitimate opposition”) neon lit, it is instructive to look at the justifications presented by US Administrations for a few other murderous incursions in recent history. Continue reading
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Secret Meeting in London: Plotting to Wage War on Syria without UN Authorization By Felicity Arbuthnot
Remember Libya was “not going to be another Iraq” disaster, “lessons have been learned”? Libya’s ruined towns and social structure of course, chillingly resemble Iraq. Now, it is Syria’s turn, but Syria will “not be another Libya”, yes mistaks were made, but lessons have yet again been learned. Continue reading
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Syria: EU Nobel Winners, Dodgy Deals, Clinton and Osama bin Laden’s Ally By Felicity Arbuthnot
Marking abandonment of the last shred of pretense of observing the rule of law, the Nobel Peace Prize winning European Union Foreign Ministers are to meet with the leader of the Syrian insurgency in Brussels on Monday 10th December, according to Lebanon’s Daily Star. Continue reading
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“Sandy”: Obama’s “Good Storm” By Felicity Arbuthnot
Cathy Breen from Voices for Non Violence was late to hear of Hurricane Sandy and of its impact on the Manhatten community where she lives. She was in Najav, in southern Iraq, where, as the rest of the country, the electricity is intermittent to non-existent, nearly ten years after the invasion which wrought its final… Continue reading
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“October Surprise”: The Nobel Peace Committee’s “Collective Insanity” By Felicity Arbuthnot
The Former US Secretary of State was awarded his Nobel for “negotiating the Vietnam Peace Accords.” In fact he had been involved in oversight of the secret bombing of Laos and Cambodia (both neutral countries.) In nine years more than two hundred and sixty million bombs were dropped. He had also supported the murderous regimes… Continue reading
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Libya: How Many Dirty Western Hands? By Felicity Arbuthnot
This weekend a detailed article (i) suggested that a: “French secret serviceman, acting on the express orders of the then President Sarkozy, is suspected of ”the murder of Colonel Quaddafi”, on 20th October last year. Continue reading
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Her Majesty’s BBC’s Syria Coverage: “Sorry for the Lies”… by Felicity Arbuthnot
As the sabre rattling towards Iran and the ongoing tragedy in Syria become increasingly hard to unravel, “media errors” or perhaps even “obfuscation” create their own navigational complexities. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 