Archive for the ‘Nigeria’ Category
By Mark Curtis Reviewing British arms exports for the ten-year period under New Labour, the figures speak for themselves: – The UK has exported £45 billion worth of arms around the world since 1997. – Over £110m of military equipment has gone to Israel, throughout a period of offensive operations in the occupied territories and […]
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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 […]
Filed under: Africa, Arms, British Guiana, Corporations, Cuba, Development, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UK foreign policy, Vietnam, Yemen | 1 Comment
Nigeria’s war over Biafra, 1967-70 By Mark Curtis An edited extract from Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Right Abuses The formerly secret files on the Nigerian civil war in the late 1960s show very clear British complicity in the Nigerian government’s aggression against the region of Biafra, where an independence movement was struggling to secede from […]
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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 […]
Filed under: Africa, Arms, British Guiana, Cuba, Development, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, UK foreign policy, Vietnam, Yemen | 2 Comments
