Britain's Secret Wars - T. J. Coles

[Can Won]

Hi all,
after listening to the interview with T. J. Coles https://www.sott.net/article/320930-Behind-the-Headlines-Britains-Secret-Wars-Interview-with-T-J-Coles I ordered his book and .... Wow!

To get to read about the ins and outs of the wars that Britain has a hand in was at first, a slightly uncomfortable read.
The cloak and dagger decisions that have and are being made (with the funding of the tax payers) are detailed throughout, with an extensive list of references.

In the introduction, the book states;

in 1997, Chatham House published British Foreign Policy: Challenges and Choices for the 21st Century. The book was sponsored by numerous big businesses, including British banks and oil companies. Although it is available to the public, few copies were published. It was, rather, intended for policy makers and business people. Its existence and concurrent obscurity implies much about how important books and documents are suppressed by the mainstream media.

The authors explain that "a successful foreign policy requires a degree of secrecy and duplicity, a willingness to employ spies, engage in bribery, threaten, even use force, compromise principles, pursue clandestine, sometimes illegal, operations, and support dubious regimes". The book appeared at a time when American "humanitarian intervention" in Somalia (1992), Haiti (1994), and the US-British refusal to intervene in Rwanda (1994), was evoked to justify military interventions (i.e. , invasions). "Governments...are expected to downplay the interests of humanity as a whole (except when those interests overlap with the national interest)", the authors explain.

The contents of the book include the following chapters;

PART 1: THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
1. Syria - "Illegal but necessary"
2. Libya - "Orchestrated unrest"
3. Iraq - "A momentary twinge of concern"
4. Iran - "It's all about petrol prices"
5. Yemen - "Put the fear of death into them"
6. Drones - "We're talking about murder"

PART 2: AND BEYOND
7. Ukraine - "We saw this one coming"
8. Sri Lanka - "Shining a light"
9. Columbia - "The best business environment"
10. Papua - "Starve the bastards out"
11. Somalia - "Now I'm a real killer
12. Bangladesh - "Survival of the fittest"

CONCLUSION
Peaceniks - "terrorist sympathisers"

When I was about a third of the way through, I thought that reading this book once would be more than enough information to take on board! However, as the in depth analysis was slowly sinking in, once I did finish it, I started to realise that this book was actually worth reading twice, just to really hit it all home. There are loads of interesting quotes throughout and one in particular stands out...

Benny Wenda, the Chairman of the Koteka Tribal Assembly and the leader of the West Papua Independence Movement, stated:

You started to rip open and destroy our Land. We call our Land our Mother because she givers us everything we need to live. You sold our Mother to British, American & Australian companies like Rio Tinto & BP. You got rich whilst we West Pauans got poorer, not because we want your kind of riches, but because without our Mother we die.

T. J. Coles reveals the crimes that are being committed in our name across the world. An essential resource for anyone who wants to know what is really going on - John Newsinger, Author of "The Blood Never Dried".

 

[Can Won]

oops, here's the amazon link... :D

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Britains-Secret-Wars-Sponsors-Conflict/dp/1905570783/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468590176&sr=1-1&keywords=britains+secret+wars

 

[Mal7]

Having read about Yemen recently in the T. J. Coles book 'Britain's Secret Wars'; the training of forces, leaders and internal forces (the Saudis too), the arms deals, supply networks and the overall meddling by Britain in Yemen, well it is just horrendous what they have done since long ago unto this day. And as Coles discusses, hardly a words is ever mentioned of these British deeds. And that's just Britain.

This book sounds interesting. I just tried to order a copy from a bookseller (not Amazon) who was advertising it, and received this message:

Thank you for the order and I am sorry to report that the publisher has taken this title out of print with no plans to reprint. We have cancelled the order.

The Amazon UK link is also saying temporarily out of stock. The US Amazon.com site is saying three copies in stock at the moment.

The publisher's website says the title was only published on 9 May 2016, so it seems unusual that it would be unavailable already.

The publisher's page for the book is here:

http://www.clairviewbooks.com/pages/viewbook.php?isbn_in=9781905570782

The author also talks a little about the book in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG1x_cLF0io "Britain's Secret Wars -- Jeff Sleeman Interviews T.J. Coles" - Robert Fishman - June 11 2016.