Tony Blair
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National Security Archive Update: 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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Tony Blair ‘knew of torture claims eight years ago’: His handwritten note was on secret letter By Jack Doyle
Tony Blair knew about allegations that British nationals held in U.S. custody were being tortured just months into the War on Terror, it was claimed last night. A previously secret document carries notes apparently in Mr Blair’s handwriting which refer to claims that detainees were being ill-treated. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 20 September, 2010: Did Tony Blair Endorse Preventive War on Iran?
20 September, 2010 — ICH CNN Censored Footage of Iraq ‘War Crime’ By Daniel Tencer A former CNN Iraq correspondent suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder says his employers wouldn’t run footage he filmed of what he describes as a war crime by US troops. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26400.htm Depraved? Did U.S. Soldiers Create Afghan Killing Club?: Video Report Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: A JOURNEY UNCHALLENGED – ANDREW MARR INTERVIEWS TONY BLAIR
So why +does+ the BBC, a public service broadcaster, habitually turn to journalists who have previously declared their firm support for Blair’s militant Christian policies to interview Blair about those policies? The answer is that no-one outside the BBC has the remotest idea – there is flat-zero openness on this kind of choice; it is… Continue reading
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URGENT: BLAIR RUNS AWAY AGAIN FROM DEMOCRATIC PROTEST
Tony Blair’s decision to cancel his party at Tate Modern gallery today, following him pulling out of a book-signing at Waterstone’s, is another victory for the anti war movement and for the overwhelming majority in Britain who oppose his wars. Continue reading
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Tony Blair Book Signing Protest, 8 September, 2010
TONY BLIAR TO DO BOOK SIGNING FOR STOP THE WAR When Tony Blair holds a signing of his memoirs on Wednesday 8 September at Waterstone’s Piccadilly, there will no photos with Blair and no personal dedications allowed, and all bags, backpacks and briefcases must be handed over, along with cameras and mobile phones. Following objections Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 3 September, 2010: Tony Blair: military intervention in rogue regimes 'more necessary than ever'
3 September, 2010 — Information Clearing House British Military in Iraq A Shocking Legacy. By Felicity Arbuthnot The British, of course, having come in flying the St George’s flag on their vehicles (the Crusaders’ flag) slithered out of Basra city, under cover of darkness, to hunker down at the fortified airport, some distance outside the Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: BOGUS PARALLELS – THE INDEPENDENT’S DONALD MACINTYRE RESPONDS
Does Macintyre really believe that our readers respond robotically to journalists without judging the arguments for themselves? Is it really lamentable for members of the public to take action in response to biased journalism when emboldened by the realisation that they are not alone in their concerns? Continue reading
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MI5 HEAD TOLD BLAIR IRAQ NO THREAT
6 August, 2010 — The Real News Nertwork MI5 HEAD TOLD BLAIR IRAQ NO THREAT Eric Margolis: Most US media ignoring explosive testimony by former MI5 head at Iraq inquiry http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.6485144 MI5 HEAD TOLD BLAIR IRAQ NO THREAT, posted with vodpod Bio Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning, internationally syndicated foreign affairs columnist. His articles Continue reading
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Blair must be arrested! By John Pilger
Now consider the Proceeds of Crime Act. Blair conspired in and executed an unprovoked war of aggression against a defenceless country, of a kind the Nuremberg judges in 1946 described as the ‘paramount war crime’. This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: “PEACE ENVOY” BLAIR GETS AN EASY RIDE IN THE INDEPENDENT
The whole tone of the Independent interview was uncritical and respectful; a bland and meek summation of the sincere and well-intentioned thoughts of a man with the blood of untold numbers of victims on his hands: men, women and children in Iraq, Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia and, indeed, in Palestine itself. Continue reading
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Did Osama bin Laden Confess to the 9/11 Attacks, and Did He Die, in 2001? By Prof David Ray Griffin
In 2009, I published a little book entitled Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? Much evidence, I showed, suggested that Osama bin Laden had died on or about December 13, 2001. (Although this book was ignored by the US press, it received major reviews in British newspapers, and it even provided the basis for a… Continue reading
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Keiser Report No.36: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert wonder why Iceland’s volcanic ash cloud spared the victims of banking fraud; they also look at the scandals behind the Fabulous Fab Tourre’s “monstrosities,” Gordon Brown’s “shock” at Goldman’s “moral bankruptcy,” and at the political markets shocking the currency markets. In the second half of the show, Max talks… Continue reading
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Obama, Britain and the age of permanent war By John Pilger
In the coming election campaign in Britain, the candidates will refer to this war only to laud ‘our boys’. The candidates are almost identical political mummies, shrouded in the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes. As Blair demonstrated a mite too eagerly, the British elite love America because America allows them to barrack and… Continue reading
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AIPAC: Telling a Whopper By Stephanie Westbrook
As much as AIPAC appears to be living in a bubble, it also seems unlikely that the US government, or the international community for that matter, will take a courageous stance and do what many Israelis have been asking, save Israel from itself. That’s why so many activists are now taking it upon themselves to… Continue reading
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ICH 2 March, 2010: Two Suspects Entered U.S. After Killing In Dubai
Blair Warned in 2000 Iraq War was Illegal By Michael Savage, An invasion of Iraq was discussed within the Government more than two years before military action was taken – with Foreign Office mandarins warning that an invasion would be illegal, that it would claim “considerable casualties” and could lead to the breakdown of Iraq, Continue reading
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