In the United States, we’re all supposed to have forgotten that the narrative leading to the Iraq War was propelled by false facts and arguments, often in circumstances where the claim of good-faith error is difficult to sustain. We’re supposed to keep listening to political figures who made false claims, and utterly exonerate the media [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Tony Blair will face pressure at the Iraq inquiry a week on Friday to explain how he was able to claim that Saddam Hussein was building a “growing” programme of weapons of mass destruction six months before the invasion in 2003.
As the inquiry announced that the former prime minister will give evidence, a senior member said [...]
In the so-called Davids Report , the findings of an inquiry into the legality of the Dutch government’s decision to support the US-led invasion in 2003, the conclusion is that there were no legal grounds for invasion.
While a similar inquiry is still ongoing in the United Kingdom, known as the Chilcot inquiry, the Dutch Commission chief Willibrord [...]
Fresh evidence has emerged that Tony Blair’s discredited Iraqi arms dossier was “sexed up” on the instructions of Alastair Campbell, his communications chief, to fit with claims from the US administration that were known to be false.
The pre-invasion dossier’s worst-case estimate of how long it would take Iraq to acquire a nuclear weapon was shortened [...]
From the looks of the photographs brought back by Mark Obstfeld, a British photographer who visited the vacant building, the imagination still reigns supreme at the site of the old power station. It almost seems as though if you were to listen closely enough, you might still hear the humming of the boilers, the shoveling [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
After an exhausting planning process, during which the initiative was twice rejected by local planning authorities, a group of families building a 74 acre ecovillage in Wales won £350,000 (over half a million US dollars) in grant money from the UK government last week.
It took a lot of convincing, but for the folks at Lammas, the third time [...]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Political expediency “rules the roost” over scientific advice, one of the three latest government drug advisers to resign has told BBC News.
Dr Simon Campbell quit the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs on Monday, over the sacking of chief drugs adviser Professor David Nutt.
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He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “When we made our [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Professor David Nutt didn’t play the game. As the chief drug policy advisor in the British Government, an unspoken part of his job description was to help maintain a public fiction about marijuana – or cannabis, as it is known in the U.K. and other parts of the world. Specifically, he was expected to further the misperception [...]
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