Britain's Real Foreign Policy

Web Of Deceit

A timely and controversial critical expose of the reality of British foreign policy.

Scrupulously, relentlessly...rescues the historical and documentary record from a web of distortion and self-serving illusion

The picture of British policies that Curtis reveals should serve as a call to action for those who hope to understand the world that has been shaped by Western power, and to overcome the injustice and suffering that is, in no small measure, its cruel legacy

A searing indictment of British Foreign policy

Mark Curtis is a writer, journalist, and independent consultant on foreign policy. He has been director of Policy and Advocacy for Christian Aid and political director of ActionAid, he is also a former Research Fellow of the Institute of Foreign Affairs. Curtis is the author of six books including, The Ambiguities of Power, The Great Deception, Trade for Life and Web of Deceit.

In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that Britain is an 'outlaw state', often a violator of international law and ally of many repressive regimes. He reasons not only that Britain's foreign policies are generally unethical but that they are also making the world more dangerous and unequal. 
 
The Web of Deceit describes the staggering gulf that has arisen between New Labour's professed commitment to upholding ethical values and the reality of current policies. It outlines the new phase in global intervention, the immorality of British policy in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq and Indonesia and support for repressive governments in Israel, Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Curtis also reveals Britain's acquiescence in the Rwanda genocide and economic policies in the World Trade Organisation that are increasing poverty and inequality around the world. 
 
Drawing on formerly secret government files, the book also shows British complicity in the slaughter of a million people in Indonesia in 1965; the depopulation of the island of Diego Garcia; the overthrow of governments in Iran and British Guiana; repressive colonial policies in Kenya, Malaya and Oman; and much more.

Mark Curtis

Mark Curtis is, in my opinion, this country's best popular historian

Curtis is a brave recorder of truths which the powerful would rather not have told

Victoria Brittain, former foreign editor at The Guardian

Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses

Britain is complicit in the deaths of ten million people. 
 
These are Unpeople - those whose lives are seen as expendable in the pursuit of Britain's economic and political goals. 
 
In Unpeople, Mark Curtis shows that the Blair government is deepening its support for many states promoting terrorism and, using evidence unearthed from formerly secret documents, reveals for the first time the hidden history of unethical British policies, including: support for the massacres in Iraq in 1963; the extraordinary private backing of the US in its aggression against Vietnam; support for the rise of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin; the running of a covert 'dirty war' in Yemen in the 1960s; secret campaigns with the US to overthrow the governments of Indonesia and British Guiana; the welcoming of General Pinochet's brutal coup in Chile in 1973; and much more. 
 
This explosive new book, from the author of Web of Deceit, exposes the reality of the Blair government's foreign policies since the invasion of Iraq. It discloses government documents showing that Britain's military is poised for a new phase of global intervention with the US, and reveals the extraordinary propaganda campaigns being mounted to obscure the reality of policies from the public.

Mark Curtis

Praise for Unpeople

Mark Curtis is, in my opinion, this country's best popular historian

Curtis is a brave recorder of truths which the powerful would rather not have told

Books by Mark Curtis

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