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British foreign policy – cui bono?
Questions remain unanswered over the government-funded Integrity Initiative. What have ministers got to hide, asks CHRIS WILLIAMSON

WHOSE interests does British foreign policy serve? It certainly doesn’t serve the interests of the British public. 

But then British foreign policy never has done. It has always been about the interests of wealthy elites and corporate capitalism, and yet we’re supposed to live in a democracy?
 
War, or the threat of war, is a highly profitable endeavour, and during the cold war, the British Establishment had a ready-made bogeyman.  

But for the past 30 years they have been forced to invent new ones to justify Britain’s covert and military intrusions.  

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