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1. Iraq [Lobster #53 (Summer 2007)]
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 53) Summer 2007 Last| Contents| Next Issue 53 Iraq I'm still interested in the origins of the invasion of Iraq, the why and the when. At one level this is banal. We know, originally from CBS reporter David Martin, that within hours of the 9/11 attacks Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeldt was 'telling his aides to start thinking about striking Iraq, even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks'.(1 )We know that the various neo-con and/or Israeli-supporting think tanks and action groups, notably the PNAC, had been pushing for more military action against Iraq; and the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 336 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-28.htm
2. Iraq [Lobster #49 (Summer 2005)]
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 49) Summer 2005 Last| Contents| Next Issue 49 Iraq Dr. David Kelly The death of Dr David Kelly refuses to go away. Two groups of medical experts have expressed doubts about the suicide verdict. The International Toxicology Advisory Group have queried the conclusion that Kelly swallowed at least 20 co-proxamol tablets, which contributed to his death;( [1]) and a group of surgeons wrote to The Guardian on28 September 2004, expressing doubts about the suicide verdict and commented that 'the death scene on Harrowdon Hill had all the trappings of a suicide that is highly unlikely to have succeeded'. This conclusion was bolstered by the two paramedics ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 329 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-10.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 45) Summer 2003 Last| Contents| Next Issue 45 Lying about Iraq NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi 'weapons of mass destruction' had been found by the 'coalition' forces. Before the furore over the British government's 'dodgy dossier' in February, in truth I hadn't been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on Iraq. (1) It seemed obvious that the US, with its faithful British sidekick, was going to attack Iraq whatever the UN inspectors did or didn't find. In any case, there seemed to be hundreds of people, better-informed than ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 312 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-03.htm
4. Iraq [Lobster #47 (Summer 2004)]
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 47) Summer 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 47 Iraq Since issue 45, last June,there has been so much information produced on the events preceding the assault on Iraq it is impossible to keep track of it all. Here is my selection. For the powers-that-be, the war has been traumatic, not least because their various cover stories and deceptions have been exposed so rapidly, thanks, mostly, to the the Internet. Off-message A story I missed at the time was the replacement of Admiral Sir Michael Boyce as Chief of the Defence Staff. In July 2002 his departure was announced. In 'Defence chief replaced for being " ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 307 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-09.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 46) Winter 2003 Last| Contents| Next Issue 46 Advertising, Iraq and espionage Corinne Souza Advertising In 1960s Iraq, the children of the poor carried their most treasured possessions to school in much coveted, branded soap-powder packets. When these eventually disintegrated, what remained was stuck up on the classroom wall. As a result, children could pick out the words 'Tide' or 'Omo'. Praised by their teacher for doing so, a whole generation associated this approval with a country they did not know and might never visit. Thirty years earlier, the teacher's football-mad father played footie in the desert with equally football-mad Iraqis. They called their ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 254 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-06.htm
... Ba'athist party, but left after it broke into warring factions, each open to compromise with imperialism or Arab reaction. With a degree in microwave communication, Al-Ani found employment at Baghdad University in 1973. He fell victim a year later to a Ba'athist dictat that barred professors married to foreigners. After refusing to spy on foreign companies operating in Iraq, Al-Ani voyaged in 1980 with his young family to Finland. Though strongly opposed to the Ba'athists, Al-Ani wondered how any Iraqi in the 1980s and 1990s could favour toppling Saddam Hussein's government under conditions of imperialist threat. Rooting out the thirty-year Ba'athist authority, he believed, could only end in chaos and destruction. Iraq's slow strangulation under ...
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... Summer 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 47 American PR and Iraq Corinne Souza Mel Gibson's movie Throughout the ages, the Vatican's iconic depiction of the Crucifixion has been an example of one of PR's most effective 'tactics': the freeze-framing and subsequent promotion of a single event, to dictate perception, itself a marketing tactic. (The same 'mind control' is apparent in marketing today, when, say, a 'life-style' freeze-frame is used to sell an expensive product.) The hanging of the crucifix around the necks of infants can be seen as representative of both the marketing and PR process. These have been given extra life world-wide by Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 45) Summer 2003 Last| Contents| Next Issue 45 PR, Iraq and 'the allies'Corinne Souza The American boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; or, if London goes the same way as New York, Geneva. (2) Mayor Bloomberg may wish to set the world an example but this could boomerang. There are quite a few ...
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9. Iraq [Lobster #48 (Winter 2004)]
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 48) Winter 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 48 Iraq It is impossible to ignore the continuing Iraq story but difficult to decide to what, of the mountain of information we are being presented with, we should pay attention. The general drift of the British state's policy has been clear: concede a little; maintain what's left of the cover-up; concede a little more; maintain what's left and so on – in the hope that we don't notice what they're doing. Thus the admission that important intelligence information was kept from Lord Hutton (but given to Lord Butler);( 1) and the absurd spectacle of Foreign Secretary Jack ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 193 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-18.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 48) Winter 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 48 After Iraq: some FCO/SIS issues Corinne Souza When falsehoods are bared, we have to be alert to those that will take their place as well as the ones that remain concealed.( 1) At the time of writing (October 2004), the deluge of media coverage on the false justifications for the Iraq war – now understandably giving way to greater anxieties about the well-being of British troops – has led to widespread public recognition of intelligence failure, without balanced apportionment of blame. This has served to obfuscate one of the real problems: over the years 'intelligence' has ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 192 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-14.htm
