Stories by Barry Lando

Tunisia's Deposed President -- Corrupt, Anti-Democratic, and One of America's Close Friends

Posted on Jan 17, 2011, Source: Truthdig

Across the Middle East and Central Asia, U.S. allies are invariably corrupt dictators, maintained in power by lavish patronage and the military.

How George H.W. Bush Helped Saddam Hussein Prevent an Iraqi Uprising

Posted on Mar 30, 2007, Source: AlterNet

This devastating passage from Barry Lando's book on the history of American and British imperial lies about Iraq exposes the efforts that the first Bush president made to keep Hussein in power after the first Gulf War.