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Articles of the author Felicity Arbuthnot
Born liar: Blair and the Iraq inquiry
What the Mail on Sunday described as a “bombshell White House memo” alleges that Tony Blair did “a deal in blood” with Bush to support him, come what may, in an attack on Iraq — a full year before the invasion. The leaked classified correspondence (...)

28 - 10 - 2015
Sharon's Sabra and Shatila legacy-an eyewitness account
As Israel buried Ariel Sharon amid eulogies from world figures, Tony Blair, a Butcher of Baghdad, paid a tribute to the Butcher of Beirut and included the line that Sharon: “didn't think of peace as a dreamer, but did dream of peace.” Also that: “he (...)

22 - 01 - 2014
British war crimes at the ICC
A “devastating” 250-page document entitled “The Responsibility of UK Officials for War Crimes Involving Systematic Detainee Abuse in Iraq from 2003-2008” has been “presented to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and could result in some of (...)

22 - 01 - 2014
‘Liberating' Iraqis, limb by limb
“Why should we hear about body bags and deaths… I mean, it's not relevant, so why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” — Former US first lady Barbara Bush, 18 March 2003 In these days of the 10th anniversary of the illegal (...)

09 - 04 - 2013
What Olympic legacy?
“The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is… honouring International Women's Day.” — The Tony Blair Faith Foundation, March 2013 It was former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson who is said to have said that “a week is a long time in politics,” referring (...)

26 - 03 - 2013
Invasions and forgotten victims
The usual suspects have embarked on another mass butchery — sorry “training exercise” — in resource-rich Mali, and they are also meddling in Algeria. The UK, ever keen to kill, has gone from Prime Minister David Cameron's “no boots on the ground” (...)

06 - 02 - 2013
How many dirty hands?
Sarkozy reportedly had a hand in the assassination of Gaddafi, writes Felicity Arbuthnot from London "Oh what a tangled web they weave When first they practice to invade A sovereign nation and deceive The world about their dark crusade" -- (Michael (...)

18 - 10 - 2012
Planning Syria's slaughter
Far from acting to prevent terrorism, the US and UK are actively promoting it in Syria to further their own interests in the region, writes Felicity Arbuthnot "The greatest crime since World War II has been US foreign policy" -- former US (...)

16 - 08 - 2012
Lies and statistics on Iraq
A recent poll indicates remarkable progress in Iraq -- until it is put into a wider context, writes Felicity Arbuthnot "A rock, Breathing with the lungs of a lunatic; That is it, This is the twentieth century." --"A Mirror for the Twentieth Century" (...)

05 - 07 - 2012
Madeleine Albright and the Iraqi genocide
The first Iraq Genocide Memorial Day was held earlier this month in memory of those who died as a result of sanctions and the US-led invasion, writes Felicity Arbuthnot "Get some new lawyers", then US secretary of state Madeleine Albright told UK (...)

24 - 05 - 2012
Deir Yassin remembered
This year marks the 67th anniversary of the massacre at Deir Yassin, one of the most appalling crimes carried out by the Jewish Irgun and Stern gangs in Palestine, writes Felicity Arbuthnot* "No person has the right to rain on your dreams" -- Martin (...)

25 - 04 - 2012
Violence from beyond the grave
On the ninth anniversary of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, it seems that the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki has moved on to killing the dead, writes Felicity Arbuthnot* In November 2010, Iraq's former foreign minister and (...)

19 - 04 - 2012
Opinion: The world at five minutes to midnight
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita … ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' — Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, on the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Chilling (...)

23 - 01 - 2012
Project for pitiless centuries
The siege on Gaza is the mirror image of the absurd and murderous sanctions that hunted down the people of Iraq, writes Felicity Arbuthnot* "I listen to the blackbird. A song for those who died... So as not to lose sight of the goal, which is to (...)

01 - 07 - 2010
Project for pitiless centuries
The siege on Gaza is the mirror image of the absurd and murderous sanctions that hunted down the people of Iraq, writes Felicity Arbuthnot* I listen to the blackbird. A song for those who died ... So as not to lose sight of the goal, which is to (...)

24 - 06 - 2010
'Why do they hate us?'
Unspeakable devastation, unthinkable human loss: this is what Iraq has suffered -- and continues to suffer -- under occupation that poses as liberation, writes Felicity Arbuthnot* in London Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world (...)

25 - 03 - 2010
Lockdown, beheadings, bribes
Behind the laudatory headlines, the real picture of Iraq's recent elections is the onset of the eighth year of foreign occupation, writes Felicity Arbuthnot* Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and (...)

18 - 03 - 2010
Israel and total war
International law is rendered irrelevant as Israel, in Lebanon now as well as Gaza, targets whole populations for slow yet purposive extermination, writes Felicity Arbuthnot* The overwhelming consensus expressed in international law -- here the 1st (...)

10 - 08 - 2006
Lie of the millennium?
Damning evidence of the lethal trail left by depleted uranium in Iraq and Kosovo is piling up, but British and US military authorities continue to deny the facts, writes Felicity Arbuthnot from London On 9 January this year, the United Kingdom's (...)

15 - 03 - 2001
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