Britain’s Real Role in the World
In his explosive book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain’s role in the world since 1945 and in the “war against terrorism” by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government’s foreign policy. Curtis argues that Britain is an “outlaw state”, often a violator of international law and ally of many repressive regimes. He reasons not only that Britain’s foreign policies are generally unethical but that they are also making the world more dangerous and unequal. The book contains numerous revelations from the declassified government documents, including the depopulation of the Chagos Islands, British complicity in a million deaths in Indonesia and the reality of brutal colonial wars in Kenya and Malaya.

Read the introduction
Read the Chronology of British foreign policy

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“Scrupulously, relentlessly, Mark Curtis rescues the historical and documentary record from a web of distortion and self-serving illusion. The range of his inquiries is as impressive as the care and diligence with which they are conducted. “
- Noam Chomsky

Web of Deceit describes the staggering gulf that exists between New Labour’s public claims to uphold ethical values and the reality of current policies. It outlines the new phase in British global intervention, the immorality of its policy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Indonesia and support for repressive governments in Israel, Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Curtis also reveals Britain’s acquiescence in the Rwanda genocide and economic policies in the World Trade Organisation that are increasing poverty and inequality around the world.

Drawing on formerly secret government files, the book also shows British complicity in the slaughter of a million people in Indonesia in 1965; the depopulation of the island of Diego Garcia; the overthrow of governments in Iran and British Guiana; repressive colonial policies in Kenya, Malaya and Oman; and much more.

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Britain complicit in the deaths of ten million people since 1945
Those are Unpeople – those whose lives are seen as expendable in the pursuit of Britain’s economic and political goals.

Historian Mark Curtis pieces together the Blair government’s “public deception campaign” on Iraq and reveals government plans to increase “information operations” directed towards the public. Citing official documents, it discloses that the government has in effect abandoned a commitment to international law and is poised for a new period of global military intervention in alliance with the US.

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“Mark Curtis is, in my opinion, this country’s best popular historian” – John Pilger

Unpeople documents recently declassified government files to reveal:

• British support for the 1963 killings in Iraq that brought Saddam’s Ba’ath party to power
• British arming of Baghdad regimes’ brutal aggression against the Kurds throughout the 1960s
• A covert British military role in the US war in Vietnam and secret correspondence from Wilson and Heath privately backing the US
• The Heath government’s support for the Idi Amin coup in Uganda in 1971 and the 1973 Pinochet coup in Chile
• Covert operations to overthrow governments in Indonesia and Guyana
• Previous “dirty wars” in the Middle East, involving extensive war crimes, in Oman, Aden and Yemen

The new research calculates the number of deaths from British military interventions and at the hands of regimes strongly supported by Britain. Britain bears “significant responsibility” for between 8-13 million deaths.

Read an interview in the Independent

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Britain’s Real Role in the World
In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain’s role in the world since 1945 and in the “war against terrorism” by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government’s foreign policy. Curtis argues that Britain is an “outlaw state”, often a violator of international law and ally of many repressive regimes. He reasons not only that Britain’s foreign policies are generally unethical but that they are also making the world more dangerous and unequal.

Read the introduction
Read the Chronology of British foreign policy

To order the book:
go to www.word-power.co.uk or www.randomhouse.co.uk/vintage

“Scrupulously, relentlessly, Mark Curtis rescues the historical and documentary record from a web of distortion and self-serving illusion. The range of his inquiries is as impressive as the care and diligence with which they are conducted. “
- Noam Chomsky

Web of Deceit describes the staggering gulf that exists between New Labour’s public claims to uphold ethical values and the reality of current policies. It outlines the new phase in British global intervention, the immorality of its policy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Indonesia and support for repressive governments in Israel, Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Curtis also reveals Britain’s acquiescence in the Rwanda genocide and economic policies in the World Trade Organisation that are increasing poverty and inequality around the world.

Drawing on formerly secret government files, the book also shows British complicity in the slaughter of a million people in Indonesia in 1965; the depopulation of the island of Diego Garcia; the overthrow of governments in Iran and British Guiana; repressive colonial policies in Kenya, Malaya and Oman; and much more.

Read a review in the Guardian 

To order the book:
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Essex CO7 7DW
Please quote ISBN 0099448394

A Christian Aid book by Mark Curtis
Across the world, poor people are suffering as a result of the current global trade system. For a decade trade rules have been negotiated through the World Trade Organisation (WTO). They cover not merely trade issues, but also investment, services, agriculture and intellectual property rights. Can these rules be rewritten to serve poor people better, or will they continue to be pushed to the margins as the rich get richer?

Read the Executive Summary

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“The way the WTO works is like putting an adult in a boxing ring with a child. It’s like pitching Manchester United against an unknown Zimbabwean football team. The WTO should be helping to make countries more equal” – Christian Aid partner in Zimbabwe

Currently 1.3 billion people live in conditions of extreme poverty. The world’s 49 least developed countries together account for less than half of one percent of world trade. This book shows what is wrong with the global trading system through case studies from across the developing world:

• the decision-making process is biased against the poor;.
• many WTO agreements harm rather than help the poor;
• often there are no rules where rules are needed, for instance to regulate the huge power of multinational companies.

Existing trade agreements risk deepening poverty and inequality. But the book explains how a new round of negotiations may make a bad situation worse:

• multinational companies are gaining increasing control over developing country markets in areas previously denied to them;
• developing countries are being forced into an economic straitjacket which stops them choosing their own paths to development.

Trade can be made to serve poor people. Based on new research, this book outlines Christian Aid’s view of why we must act now to rewrite the global rules to benefit poor people.

Contents

1. Why Trade matters to the poor
2. The World Trade Organisation
3. The seven deadly rules
4. Priorities of the powerful
5. Transnational corporations and the need for regulation
6. Trade for Life: Pro-poor alternatives and recommendations
7. Case studies: Haiti, Brazil, Philippines, Peru, Sudan , Uganda

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Anglo-American Power and World Order
Debunking some of the myths of post-cold War power, Mark Curtis demonstrates how Britain remains the key supporting player in US domination, and how far from benign that domination is in its impact on the rest of the world.

The special relationship between Britain and the United States has concealed a powerful complicity: a “great deception” of the foreign policy establishment. Drawing on recently declassified government files, Mark Curtis makes a controversial and radical critique of British and US foreign policy since 1945. By exposing the formerly secret planning record, Curtis sheds important new light on topical issues such as Anglo-American policies on the UN, the regimes of the Middle East, the Rwanda genocide, British foreign and aid policy under Blair, and US foreign policy under Clinton. Curtis reveals the extent to which governments on both sides of the Atlantic share responsibility for human rights abuses, poverty and insecurity in the Third World and assesses the collaboration of the media and academia in their support of foreign policy decisions.

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“Curtis is a brave reporter of truths which the powerful would rather not have told.”
- Victoria Brittain, The Guardian

Contents

Part One: Foreign Policy
1. Postwar foreign policy and the special relationship
2. Foreign policy under the Democrats and Labour

Part Two: Development
3. The “development” system
4. The prevention of development

Part Three: The Middle East
5. Controlling the modern Middle East
6. The Gulf

Part Four: The United Nations
7. The US, Britain and the UN in history
8. Current policy, intervention and the case of Rwanda

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