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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
... Excusing the Iraq war? Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence Frank P. Harvey Cambridge University Press, 2011, £20.99, p/b At a particularly fractious press call in June 2003, an exasperated George W. Bush declared: 'This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq.... Now, there are some who like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.’ 1 Now, after more than a decade of bloodshed, turmoil and shattered reputations, US academic Frank P. Harvey presents as clear and explicit an essay in revisionism as you could hope to find. In Explaining the Iraq ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 314 - 16 Mar 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-iraq-war.pdf
... (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
5. 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
... The 'Rothschild connection' the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq Will Banyan N ow that the tenth anniversary of 9/11 has been commemorated, Osama bin Laden is officially dead and the last US combat troops have been withdrawn from Iraq (though private military 'contractors' remain), an accounting of the 'Global War on Terror' is surely in order; and timely, given that since 9/11, when 2,973 people were killed in the attacks in New York and Washington DC,1 the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have massively increased the death toll. As of December 2011, according to iCasualties, since 2001 a total of 1, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 285 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-rothschild.pdf
... (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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 230 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-33.htm
... 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 219 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/Copy%20of%20lob47-11.htm
... Iraq and intelligence Robin Ramsay I found this on my computer. It was obviously written around 2004 and, as far as I can see, was never used. M ichael Moore's film 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is great propaganda but, like all propaganda, it isn't about the truth. In a section mocking the so-called 'coalition of the willing' which supported the US invasion of Iraq, Moore listed several very small countries – but omitted Australia and the UK. For Australia and the UK the political decision to support the USA caused major ructions within their intelligence systems. As is now admitted, and was known by most independent analysts before the invasion, there was no ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 218 - 03 Jun 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-iraq-intelligence.pdf
