In a deep investigative piece, Abby and Robbie Martin explore the 2001 Anthrax Attacks––what led to them, why they happened, and how the Bush administration used them to manufacture consent for the illegal invasion of Iraq.
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.
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
Tulsi Gabbard: “North Korea sees what we did in Iraq with Saddam Hussein, with those false reports of weapons of mass destruction.”
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was interviewed on ABC News “This Week” following the human error that led to a false alarm missile message in Hawaii. During one defining moment of the interview, long time Clinton staffer, George
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.
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
History was just made, but nuclear-armed states stand on the wrong side of it.
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
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,
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
«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.»
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
