Tony Blair, the viceroy of Gaza
by Ömer Kayacı Oct 02, 2025 – DAILY SABAH A handout picture from the Israeli Government Press Office shows Middle East Quartet Envoy Tony Blair (L) shaking hands with Israeli […]
Long shadow of US invasion of Iraq still looms over international order
President George W Bush declares the end of major combat in Iraq on 1 May 2003. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP Iraq war: 20 years on ‘Tell me, how does this […]
Millions of us marched over Iraq – and were ignored. Now we have broken politics and endless war
Lindsey German We changed public opinion but couldn’t stop the war. The consequences have been terrible, for Iraqis and for all of usWed 15 Feb 2023 No one can say […]
Pandora Papers: Secret wealth and dealings of world leaders exposed
By Pandora Papers reporting teamBBC PanoramaPublished11 hours agoShareRelated Topics Pandora Papers The secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest […]
Terrorism, Islam and Tony Blair: countering a ‘first-order threat’
by IAN LINDEN| @IANLINDEN| @PROFIANLINDEN SHARE: Member ratings Well argued: 58% Interesting points: 68% Agree with arguments: 51% 20 ratings – view all Tony Blair at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan 2002 (Alamy). We had almost forgotten […]
How the US neocons’ dreams turned to dust
YASAR YAKIS September 19, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/b2ej4 In a public statement in October, 2007, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Wesley Clark revealed details that shed light on […]
Islamism still prime security threat to West: Blair
Former UK prime minister Tony Blair warned on Monday that “radical Islam” remained a “first-order security threat” to the world despite two decades confronting the issue across the globe. (AFP) […]
Blair claims war on Muslims is strategically vital for West
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives at the Euro Summit in Brussels, 2007 (Pic: Stefan de Vries/Flickr) Tony Blair, the blood-drenched architect of the Afghanistan war, finally came out of hiding last […]
Muslim World League, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change sign deal to empower 100,000 young people
Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa and Tony Blair sign a new partnership to bring together their common vision to serve the future generation of youth. (SPA) Short Url https://arab.news/gum5f This […]
From the Middle East to Northern Ireland, western states are all too happy to avoid culpability for war crimes
There are parallels between the sudden growth of the warped mindset which proposes to exonerate murderers before they commit their crime and historically murderous military regimes Robert Fisk @indyvoices The […]
Tony Blair should be prosecuted over Iraq
May 31,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power President Barack Obama was not a war criminal despite US involvement in wars in Iraq, Somalia, and Afghanistan and against Daesh. His […]
The US Senate must not allow a torturer to become CIA boss
May 10,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power In Charles Dickens’s novel “A Tale of Two Cities”, set during the French revolution of 1789, he draws the character of Madame […]
Iraq’s war: the seminal event that polarised, destabilised the region
Mar 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen March is a month of anniversaries. Two weeks ago, I wrote about the demonstrations that set Syria on the course for seven […]
Gordon Brown can’t possibly expect us to believe he’s only just realised the Iraq War was a mistake
Claiming he needed a US intelligence report to realise the war was unjustified is crude insult to his own and his audience’s intelligence Matthew Norman @IndyVoices Sunday 5 November 2017 16:30 […]
No Iraq exit plan then, no EU Brexit plan now – 13 years later our politicians are still infantile and inadequate
If the British public’s reflexive distrust of establishment politicians came into riotous bloom in June, it was Tony Blair who sowed the seed in 2003. The similarities between these twin catastrophes are overwhelming Matthew Norman @IndyVoices Wednesday 6 July 2016 Curiously enough, considering the avalanche of criticism about the endless […]
I’m already tired of the ‘lessons’ of Chilcot. What can we learn from a report that ignores Iraqis?
Source: Independent If Blair and Bush were sincere about the dangers of weapons of mass destruction, they would have invaded North Korea By Robert Fisk @indyvoices So where are the Titans […]
We ignored the rule of law – the result was Iraq
Elizabeth Wilmshurst By acting in defiance of the UN charter, as I warned when I was a Foreign Office lawyer in 2003, we put our reputation at risk. So it has proved ‘Lord Goldsmith, who as attorney general constitutionally had the last word, had given a provisional view that a […]
After the Chilcot report, we’ll hear the New Testament – the gospel according to Saint Tony
It may not be a written text, more a collection of stories handed down by apostles, generation after generation, only later formed into a codex Robert Fisk @indyvoices Friday 3 June 2016 197 comments 420 So, Sir John Chilcot’s report is going to be “four times as long asWar and Peace”, is […]
Europe has a troublingly short memory over Serbia’s Aleksander Vucic
Voices The Serbian Prime Ministser is saying all the right things to ease his country into the EU. But Vucic, who attended the Srebrenica memorial service last year, once said, “for every Serb killed, we will kill 100 Muslims” Robert Fisk @indyvoices Saturday 14 May 2016 31 comments Ask me […]
Robert Fisk: The only point of ‘terror lists’ is to get those named a palace invitation – The Cordoba Foundation has now found itself on the ‘list’ alongside al-Qaeda and Isis
When are we going to give up our infantile “terrorist” lists? The IRA were “terrorists”. So was the Irgun. So was EOKA. So was the Mau-Mau. And their leaders – every bloody one of them – met Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Think Begin, Makarios, Kenyatta. How long, […]