Norman Gerard: 5 books

The British-supplied dossier on WMDs was what the Americans were looking for to justify invading Iraq. President Bush said, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Dr. David Dunsmore was relieved as an U.N. weapon's...

Kansas-born journalist David Kane never expected he would land a lucrative position at New Yorks Crawley News. Still, he does, and the position is all he could have hoped for until illegal phone hacking allegations by Crawley land on the backs of several New York staffers. The Big Apple isnt so glitzy...

Dr. David Dunsmore was relieved from his post as U.N. Weapon’s Inspector in Iraq and reassigned to the MoDs biological warfare facility. Dr. Dunsmore was the primary source of the government’s dossier on Iraq’s WMDs. That dossier was what the Americans needed to justify invading Iraq. The intelligence...

In 15th Century England, a secret Star Chamber met to decide the interests of the Crown and the course of the nation. They dispensed justice as they saw fit. The Chamber was officially abolished in 1641. Lord Harold McMann, a critic of the government’s adventurism into Iraq and its dependence on oil,...

Oil was selling for more than $50 a barrel at the height of the Arab embargo. The Alamo– an American-owned super tanker with 500,000 tons of Iranian crude in its hull went aground off the Normandy en route to Rotterdam. Premiums for tanker insurance had skyrocketed while the prestigious House of Lloyds...