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1. Iraq [Issue 49 - 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 ...
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2. Iraq [Issue 47 - 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 ...
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... (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, ...
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... : Britain's Real Role in the World Mark Curtis London: Vintage, 2003; p/b, 7.99 This latest analysis of British foreign policy by Mark Curtis could not be better timed. With more than a million Britons on the streets of London protesting against the Iraq war earlier this year there is a potentially large audience for a critical review of what led this country to that invasion. Even his title, Web of Deceit, catches the growing public perception of Tony Blair in leading the country into war on a false prospectus ...
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... (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 ...
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... , The Observer 26 May 2002) In his comment on this Bethell resisted the temptation to point that it was Jellicoe who was the 'risk', resigning in 1973 when found to be, as they used to say, consorting with prostitutes. Tell me lies about Iraq The Iraq thing is about oil. If Iraq had no oil the US would not be interested. The US is going to buy or steal- mostly, I guess, steal- every last barrel of oil on earth to keep its cars and its air-conditioning ...
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... groups of unelected officials...'. Mark Phythian, 'Hutton and Scott: a tale of two inquiries'. Parliamentary Affairs, 58(1), 2005, pp. 124-137 Forward planning Blair's pre-election protestations about there being no long term plan to invade Iraq have been roundly contradicted by the media over here.( [5]) The following snippets also cast doubt on his claims. In a recent interview film director David O. Russell recalled his meeting with George W. Bush during post-production on one of Hollywood's ...
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... . Well, yes given ExxonMobil's recent quarterly $5 billion profits, one might well agree. The oil price is high due to limited refining capacity. In 1980 there were 425 refineries across America: there are 176 today. His understanding of the oil politics of Iraq is good and he admits the rebuilding programme has failed. You may puzzle why Iraqi oil is a 'prize' while the cost of the war exceeds $325 billion to date and may hit $2 trillion before the country can return to any semblance of normality ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 46) Winter 2003 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 46 Historical Notes Scott Newton Back to the future: the USA, the UK and Iraq The US threatens to attack Iraq and is backed by the UK. There are objections in the UN Security Council from Russia and France. A large task force is assembled. Guess what happens next? Not a lot. There is a diplomatic crisis temporarily resolved after the intervention of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and no invasion takes place – because this is ...
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... part of an international effort...are in fact self-defeating.' (22) Self-defeating for whom? The oppressed, or the companies that might see their competitors getting a bigger slice of the action? But sanctions can cut both ways. After the 2003 Iraq war, the U.S. was accused of drawing up a blacklist of foreign companies which under the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 would not be allowed to bid for reconstruction contracts because they had done work in 'axis of evil' countries.(23) It could ...
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