Tony Blair
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‘Suspicious things going on’: UK, US aiming to block Iraq war inquiry
The US and Britain are trying to block the inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the invasion of Iraq, anti-war activist Lindsey German told RT. Conversations between former British PM Tony Blair and former US President George W. Bush remain unattainable. Continue reading
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‘Suspicious things going on’: UK, US aiming to block Iraq war inquiry
The US and Britain are trying to block the inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the invasion of Iraq, anti-war activist Lindsey German told RT. Conversations between former British PM Tony Blair and former US President George W. Bush remain unattainable. Continue reading
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US has ‘no veto’ over disclosure of Blair-Bush communications – UK
Reports that the US will veto the disclosure of conversations between former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former US President George W. Bush have been denied by the UK Cabinet Office, which stated that the US does not have a veto. The communications between the leaders are seen as key pieces of evidence in… Continue reading
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War Criminals Hide Evidence: US Blocks Publication of Chilcot’s Report on How Britain Went to War With Iraq By James Cusick
Department of State’s objection to release of key evidence may prevent inquiry’s conclusions from ever being published, except in heavily redacted form. Washington is playing the lead role in delaying the publication of the long-awaited report into how Britain went to war with Iraq, The Independent has learnt. Continue reading
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Treason and the Supreme War Crime Committed by The British Government By Dr. David Halpin
Firstly we start with the definition of a supreme war crime as defined at Nurnberg. That is to engage or conspire to engage in aggressive war, ‘from which all other crimes flow’. Continue reading
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Media Lens: A Private Conversation – The Leveson Inquiry, Corporate Journalism And Elite Collusion
Advertising revenue is almost the life-blood of the press. Although the figure has fallen in recent years, today it constitutes around 60 per cent of newspapers’ total income, including ‘quality’ titles like the Guardian and the Independent. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Silence Of The Lambs
One of the original aims of Media Lens, when we began in 2001, was to engage in honest, open and rational debate with journalists working for major news organisations. It wasn’t about ‘bashing’ them or trying to make them look bad. We wanted to examine media assumptions, challenge journalists’ arguments and find out more about… Continue reading
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BP Profit From Torture By Craig Murray
7 September 2011 — Craig Murray These are the ‘democrats’?! Just when you thought that nothing could be more sickening than the revelation that the mad Mahdi Blair was godfather to the baptism of Murdoch’s daughter in the River Jordan… Kudos to the Daily Mail for outing BP’s Mark Allen as the MI6 man who Continue reading
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10 Questions The MPs Will Not Ask Murdoch By Robin Beste
What was it about the relationship with Murdoch that made Tony Blair feel it was appropriate to take a phone call from a newspaper proprietor just hours prior to the most momentous decision a prime minister can make: ordering the country’s armed forces to war? Continue reading
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Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual By John Pilger
Rupert Murdoch is a 21st century Lord Copper. The amusing gentility is missing; the absurdity of his power is the same. The Daily Beast wanted victories; it got them. The Sun wanted dead Argies; Gotcha! Of the bloodbath in Iraq, Murdoch said, ‘There is going to be collateral damage. And if you really want to… Continue reading
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Disregard the Blairite undead
It is difficult to imagine either of Ed Miliband’s predecessors as Labour leader deciding to force a parliamentary vote to delay consideration of Rupert Murdoch’s swallowing up of BSkyB until criminal investigations into the News of the World are complete. Continue reading
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PressTV – ‘Blair created pack of lies on Iraq war’
The new-documents released by the Iraq war Inquiry has confirmed that Tony Blair and his communications advisor Alistair Campbell made up a pack of lies to involve Britain in an illegal war. Continue reading
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Arms sales to Libya haunt Europeans By Staff Writers
Large-scale sales of weapons and other military equipment to Libya have come back to haunt European powers as they seek to bring down Moammar Gadhafi, with Britain, France and Italy using the same advanced combat jets they once tried to sell to his regime. Continue reading
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Libya: Distractions and diversions By William Bowles
One thing should surely be clear and that is the pivotal role played by the corporate/state media in selling the Libyan ‘no-fly zone’ and the subsequent invasion by the Empire, albeit by first ‘softening up the enemy’ and then as illegal arms supplier. Continue reading
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BLAIR APPEARS A DAY EARLY AT THE IRAQ INQUIRY
Tony Blair appeared a day early to mock the Chilcot Committee, when the iconic picture of him photographing himself — with Iraq in flames in the background — was projected onto the building opposite the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. Continue reading
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1 January, 2011 — Collected from New Le…
1 January, 2011 — Collected from New Left Project If only Andrew Marr’s interview with Tony Blair had gone more like this: Continue reading
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Published for the first time, the papers which could finally force full inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly By Miles Goslett
Today, the Daily Mail publishes for the first time the legal document which could trigger a full coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. The document, formally known as a memorial was written by group of campaigning doctors who have been trying to secure an inquest since 2004. It lists the sequence of… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, October 4, 2010: THE IRAQ WAR — PART III: Shaping the Debate
For nearly a year before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the British government of Prime Minister Tony Blair collaborated closely with the George W. Bush administration to produce a far starker picture of the threat from Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction (WMD) than was justified by intelligence at the time, according to… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, October 1, 2010: THE IRAQ WAR — PART II: Was There Even a Decision?
Contrary to statements by President George W. Bush or Prime Minister Tony Blair, declassified records from both governments posted on the Web today reflect an early and focused push to prepare war plans and enlist allies regardless of conflicting intelligence about Iraq’s threat and the evident difficulties in garnering global support. Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, September 22, 2010: THE IRAQ WAR — PART I: The U.S. Prepares for Conflict, 2001
22 September, 2010 — NSA U.S. Sets “Decapitation of Government” As Early Goal of Combat Talking Points for Rumsfeld-Franks Meeting in November 2001 Outline Policy Makers’ Aims for the Conflict and Postwar Rule of Iraq Declassified Documents Show Bush Administration Diverting Attention and Resources to Iraq Less than Two Months after Launch of Afghanistan War Continue reading
The New Dark Age 