Selling illegal wars

"Britain’s most senior and respected journalists passed on government lies uncritically, very often adding fresh fabrications of their own." Peter Oborne

“To my everlasting regret, I strongly supported the Iraq invasion, in person and in print. I had become a recipient of what we now know to have been sheer disinformation about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction and his purported ‘links’ with al-Qaeda – claims put out by [opposition figure] Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress. I took these stories seriously because they were corroborated by ‘off-the-record’ intelligence sources on both sides of the Atlantic.” David Rose in an article in the New Statesman published four years after the invasion quoted by Peter Oborne.

According to Peter Oborne both the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel lobby groups “work closely” with the Israeli embassy in London.

"The Palestinian issue is now in the shadow of everyone’s attention because of the situation in the Persian Gulf around Iran." Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Alas.

"Forget about Russia, the real threat to America is Israel and the Israel lobby". I saw this yesterday attributed to Julian Assange, but he didn't say this.

"During his summit with the Chinese president last week, Trump also suggested that the US, China and Russia should co-operate against the International Criminal Court, according to people familiar with the talks." The Financial Times today