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... the world price of oil. The real failure, they concede, was one of political analysis. Officials did not study how Iraqis would react to an occupation and what politic forces would emerge on top once Saddam was removed.' In 'Blair was warned of looming disaster in Iraq', in The Daily Telegraph, John Ware trailed his BBC TV programmes on the subject and his opening sentence included this: 'the former prime minister [Blair] was told repeatedly about America's lack of planning for peace and did nothing.'(4) On 2 February 2008 The New York Times reported in 'Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning' that the Pentagon has tried and failed to suppress ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-47b.htm
72. RE: [Lobster #55 (Summer 2008)]
... in the fact that, somewhat ironically, Baker's book was runner- up to Alastair Campbell's The Blair Years in Channel 4 News' Political Book of the Year Awards. For more recent views on the death of Dr. Kelly see Paul Brandon et al, 'The death of David Kelly and the "sexed up" WMD report: was BBC Andrew Gilligan's original source a senior member of Her Majesty's Government?' at <http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8146>. 'The record on CURVEBALL: declassified documents and key participants show the importance of phony intelligence in the origins of the Iraq War' <http://www.gwu.edu/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-39.htm
... being read by the Brown team during the parliamentary recess. Except Bush didn't beat the Democrats: the Republicans stole both elections; and the fascination this book has apparently roused is just an example of the inability of Labour and Democratic politicians to look reality in the face. Tunes and pipers Phil Chamberlain alerted me the reference in the blog of BBC Chief Political Correspondent Nick Robinson to Gordon Brown reading Frances Stonor Saunders' Who Paid The Piper?, her long account of the CIA's 'cultural war' in the 1950s and 60s against the Left. This was then picked up/also reported by Spectator editor Matthew d'Ancona who reported that 'he [Brown] has recently been inspired' by ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 33 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-26.htm
... open to judicial review.' Man bites old saw What times we are in when Daily Mail columnist Oborne approvingly quotes from Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman. Oborne's latest book also points out that 'chroniclers of the New Labour government as well as biographers of the Prime Minister have effectively ignored Rupert Murdoch'. Jon Sopel of the BBC never mentioned him in his 1995 Blair biog; in 550 pages on New Labour, The Observer's Andrew Rawnsley gave Murdoch three name checks; and John Rentoul of The Independent on Sunday managed '10 brief mentions' in his big Blair book. Was it any different with Margaret Thatcher? 'Hugo Young's much-praised book on Margaret Thatcher, One of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-13.htm
... anti-landmine campaign.' The male caller in question was allegedly Sir Nicholas Soames, a supporter of Prince Charles during the War of the Waleses and (at the time of the call) Minister of State for the Armed Forces. In November 1995, Soames had publicly claimed that the Princess was in 'the advanced stages of paranoia' (on BBC 2's Newsnight) and said that she was pulling off 'a very calculating and a very polished performance' (Radio 4 Today programme) after her Panorama appearance. The claim that Soames made ominous remarks about accidents would appear to be directly pertinent to Paget's remit to investigate a possible conspiracy to murder. However, it was resolved in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-28.htm
... pseudonym Oliver Kamm. On a different subject, presenter Jeremy Paxman referred to 'surviving a sustained barrage of astonishingly threatening lawyers' letters and ear-bending from one of the country's most expensive PR firms.' (The Journalist, November 2007). Declaration of Interests: I am a supporter of the Campaign for Press& Broadcasting Freedom which supports the BBC. See Independent on Sunday, 16 September 2007 See admission by former SIS Chief Sir Richard Dearlove of sympathy with what he called 'initial use' of rendition and torture, The Guardian, 16 May 2007. Given the manner of death in 2003 of one of Britain's most distinguished government scientists, Dr Kelly, it was perhaps not the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-14.htm
... given failure in Iraq) becomes a test for whether the UK military can or should operate 'out-of-area' at all if Government will not trade butter for more guns. The latest Comprehensive Spending Review indicated that, if there is money to spare, it would go to the security and intelligence services and into soft power arrangements (such as the BBC Arabic and Farsi broadcast channels) and not into the sort of military resource that could cope with more than one military intervention at a time. The commitment to improving conditions for ordinary soldiers and their families and changes in compensation arrangements also suggest that the military is increasingly going to be seen as just one public service amongst many and that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-03.htm
... , monstrous act, demented mind. Reclaiming History, p. 936. Reclaiming History, p. 939. Reclaiming History, p. 939. The Warren Report (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1964), p. 201. Mailer filmed interview in Robert Stone's 85 minute documentary, Oswald's Ghost. Most recently shown on BBC Four on 5 June 2007. Bugliosi seems not to be aware of this novelettish silliness. And on the subject of Mailer, did anyone ever get beyond the first few pages of Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (New York: Random House,1995)? The idea a novelist can bring an understanding to the case that a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-20.htm
79. RE: [Lobster #53 (Summer 2007)]
... of Iraq, Afghanistan, and other global war on terror operations since 9/11, produced by Amy Belasco for the Congressional Research Service.(22) UK media independence over the reporting of Iraq has been questioned following investigations by academics from Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds Universities.(23)Their research indicates that' government accusations of BBC anti-war bias were unfounded: Channel 4 News was least likely to report coalition good news, with Sky News and ITV most likely. The BBC's coverage fell in the middle ground.'(24) For a first hand account of media manipulation as lucratively practised by the Lincoln Group(25)read former Oxford University student Willem Marx's ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 80 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-21.htm
... Robert Verkaik, 'The Freedom of Information Act misused', The Independent, 22 March 2007. The complete text can be read at <www.uruknet.de/?p =m28769&hd=&size=1 &l =e> <http://alternet.org/story/45726/> <www.counterpunch.org/ketcham03072007.html>. For a BBC version of the original 'Israeli art students' story from 2002 see <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1 /hi/world/europe/2294487.stm>. Or, rather, don't see that URL for it evoked a 404 when I tried 'open location' using it. However if you Google 'Report details US intelligence failures'+ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-26.htm
