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Media Lens: The Dark Heart of Robin Cook’s ‘Ethical’ Foreign Policy – Part 2
Ethical foreign policy? Cook supplied Hawk fighter-bombers to the Suharto regime committing genocide in East Timor. He propagandised on behalf of US-UK sanctions that killed one million Iraqi civilians. He defended the cynical December 1998 bombing of Iraq and spread government lies about Iraq’s alleged failure to cooperate with inspectors. He repeated propaganda justifying Nato’s… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Dark Heart of Robin Cook’s ‘Ethical’ Foreign Policy – Part 1
22 August 2005 — Media Lens August 6 And The Barbarians Of The Dark Ages Every death is a tragedy to be mourned. August 6 marked the 60th anniversary of the agonizing deaths of 140,000 Japanese people in the city of Hiroshima. In her article, ‘Eight Hundred Metres From The Hypocentre,’ Yamaoka Michiko described her Continue reading
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The war on everything By William Bowles
There is a direct correlation between imperialism’s increasingly desperate economic state and its urge to go to war, only now it’s declared war on the entire planet, a sure indication of capitalism’s inability to deal with its inbuilt and rapidly escalating contradictions. Consider the wars it has declared over the past 100 years: the ‘war… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 