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Tony Blair: “the lies, deceits, duplicities and fudges”
July 21, 2016
Philippe Sands is professor of law at UCL and a barrister at Matrix Chambers. His review of the Report of the Iraq Inquiry by John Chilcot appears in the latest issue of the London Review of Books. See: A Grand and Disastrous Deceit (LRB, Vol. 38 No.15, 28 July 2016).* Professor Sands introduces the 12-volume, […]
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The Iraq Inquiry – then and now
July 6, 2016
Sir John Chilcot has delivered a devastating critique of Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003, with his long-awaited report concluding that Britain chose to join the US invasion before “peaceful options for disarmament” had been exhausted. See: Chilcot delivers crushing verdict on Blair and the Iraq war (Luke Harding, Guardian […]
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Our disastrous military interventions
April 8, 2016
Gar Pardy is a Rideau Institute Senior Adviser. This article was originally published in Embassy News on Wed. April 6th, 2016. There can be no expectation that our military interventions will do more good than the obvious disaster they are. We spiral into confusion and frustration amid the consequences of our military interventions in places […]
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President of the Rideau Institute Peggy Mason to talk at the Canadian Club of Kingston
January 20, 2015
On Thursday January 22nd Ambassador (ret’d) Peggy Mason, the President of the Rideau Institute will give a talk entitled “Countering the Islamic State: Why Canada needs to Change course” hosted by the Canadian Club of Kingston. Talk is open to all.
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