Whilst most debate has focused on questions relating to the overselling of intelligence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, the most important information to emerge from the Chilcot Report concerns the formation of the ‘war on terror’, according to an academic at the University of Sheffield. The Chilcot Report, published on June 6 2016, delivered damning criticisms of the […]
(ANTIMEDIA) In some ways, the Chilcot Inquiry was a success for the anti-war crowd, as it confirmed everything we already knew about the war in Iraq. In other ways, it was a complete disappointment because it failed to dig into the fundamental problems underlying the U.S. and U.K.’s pursuit of this horrific, illegal war.
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Attacks in Nice: Open Letter to President Hollande from Bruno Guigue
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The following is the statement made by UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn about the release of the long awaited Chilcot Report on the Iraq War.
Corbyn’s statement on this important historic matter is certainly one for the records, and stands as one of the most forthright and articulate statements made by any public official on the Iraq debacle. Watch:
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This week another toxic revelation dripped out of the Chilcot Report.
According to top British SAS officers, US commander Stanley McChrystal’s counter-insurgency “black-ops” featured a program of relentless violence designed to ‘speed up’ the process of political cleansing and the so-called “reconstruction” of Iraq.
Britain’s Chilcot report recalled the Iraq War lies that justified an aggressive war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, but this international crime has largely been sloughed off with almost no accountability, as Eric S. Margolis noted. By Eric…Read more →
By Yvonne Ridley | MEMO | July 10, 2016 Sir John Chilcot’s report into the war in Iraq contains 2.6 million words and took seven years to complete yet there is one story which was untold in the dossier. It is the story of how two heroic GCHQ (Government Communications HQ) staff sacrificed their careers […]
By Scot Lucas | The Conversation | July 6, 2016 Seven years after it was commissioned and 13 years after the Iraq War began, the Iraq Inquiry’s report on Britain’s part in the invasion has been published – and the fallout has begun. The headlines are already an excoriating verdict on Tony Blair’s actions before, […]
With the Chilcot report, Great Britain somewhat came to grips with its role in the criminal invasion of Iraq, but neocon-controlled Washington still refuses to give the American people any honest accounting, explains ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul…Read more →
OffGuardian | July 8, 2016 The Chilcot Report was released on Wednesday, and a hard copy can be yours for just £767 (though I would suggest reading it free online here), and while there will doubtless be many and varied autopsies of the evidence and documents, this early observation is an interesting one. An eagle-eyed […]
