From Madison Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue: How They Sold Operation Iraqi Freedom

The same techniques (and often the same PR gurus) that have been used to hawk cigarettes, SUVs and nuclear waste dumps were deployed to retail the Iraq war.

Jeffrey St. Clair
Por Jeffrey St. Clair
President Bush announces he has reached an agreement with House leaders on a resolution giving him authority to oust Saddam Hussein, in the Rose Garden, Wednesday, Oct 2, 2002. Bush is joined by, from left to right front row, Speaker of the House of Representatives Dennis Hastert, R-Ill, Bush, Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo. As part of the deal with the House, Bush bent to Democratic wishes and pledged to certify to Congress that diplomatic and other peaceful means alone are inadequate to protect Americans from Saddams weapons of mass destruction. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

The war on Iraq won’t be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as “weapons of mass destruction” and “rogue state” were hurled like precision weapons at the target audience: us. To understand the Iraq war you don’t need to consult

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Body Of Iraq WMD Whistleblower Exhumed, Cremated After Calls To Investigate His Death

The body of a chemical weapons expert who was critical of the UK’s use of «weapons of mass destruction» as a pretense for war, was unearthed and cremated.

Jack Burns
Por Jack Burns
Dr. David Kelly. (Photo: EPA)

This past week, the Kelly family decided to unearth the corpse of their beloved family member and cremate his remains. In 2003, Dr. David Kelly, formerly a United Nations (UN) weapons inspector and member of the Ministry of Defence (UK), walked into the woods near his home, ate a couple dozen opiates, slit his left wrist, and died. That was the

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US Boycotts Historic Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

History was just made, but nuclear-armed states stand on the wrong side of it.

Andrea Germanos
Por Andrea Germanos
An unidentified man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 7, 1945. The vast ruin is a result of "Little Boy," the uranium atomic bomb detonated on Aug. 6 by the U.S.

The United States has joined a small group of global outliers on Friday after a historic United Nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons was adopted by a majority of the world's nations. "The adoption of the nuclear weapons ban treaty marks a historic turning point in the centuries-old battle to eliminate all weapons of mass destruction," said Jeff

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Condoleezza Rice: Mid-East Wars Not About Bringing Democracy

Her statements run in contradiction to official “Operation Iraqi Freedom” White House statements that the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 in order to promote democracy,

Darius Shahtahmasebi
Por Darius Shahtahmasebi
Code Pink member Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz, pictured here confronting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice over the Iraq war, has been convicted of being disruptive at US Attorney General Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Last week, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made some surprising admissions about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, claiming U.S.-led interventions in the Middle East were not about spreading democracy but were instead about addressing security issues. During an interview at the Brooking Institute last Thursday, Rice stated the

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Remember Iraq? Bolivian Ambassador Blasts US For Another Illegal Attack

«The United States has not only unilaterally attacked,» Llorenti said, «the United States has become that investigator, has become the prosecutor, has become the judge, has become the jury.»

Lauren McCauley
Por Lauren McCauley
Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations Sacha Sergio Llorenti Soliz holds a photo of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell holding up a vial that he described as one that could contain anthrax, during a Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria, Friday, April 7, 2017 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Wielding an image of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell during his infamous "weapons of mass destruction" speech that helped make the case for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Sacha Llorenti, the Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations, blasted the United States for its unilateral military action against Syria saying it is "vital to

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Tillerson Talks Of Pre-emptive Stikes On NKorea Citing Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Secretary of State and former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, closed the door on talks with Pyongyang unless it denuclearizes and gives up its weapons of mass destruction.

Associated Press
Por Associated Press
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, center, visits with U.S. Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, commander of the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and United States Forces Korea, right, at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, South Korea, Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP/Lee Jin-man)

SEOUL, South Korea — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday it may be necessary to take pre-emptive military action against North Korea if the threat from their weapons program reaches a level "that we believe requires action." Tillerson outlined a tougher strategy to confront North Korea's nuclear threat after visiting the world's most

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