Iraq

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] of The Financial Times, of 29 January 2005, ()there was an article, ‘War Stories’ by Carne Ross, who was, in his own words, ‘the British “expert” on Iraq for the UK delegation to the UN Security Council responsible for policy on both weapons inspections and sanctions against Iraq’ from 1998 to 2002. His account […]

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Fifth Column: A brief sojourn East of Suez: a last gasp for British great power status

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] and reached its coda in the bloody withdrawal from Aden. Even the Thatcher-Major Conservatives restricted themselves to support for UN and US-backed intervention after that date ( Iraq, 1990/1991). The withdrawal was logical. The British economy was in no state to maintain the infrastructure for a global empire and modern capitalism no longer required […]

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Iraq

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

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 […]

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The death of Italy’s military intelligence chief in Iraq and some examples of persuasion

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] It is always ‘expensive’: Chief ‘Calipari’s’ death, ‘cost’ the US that part of the Italian public which it had not already lost following its illegal invasion of Iraq; as well as, presumably, the goodwill of Chief ‘Calipari’s’ colleagues and government. () However, such ‘losses’ can be heavily offset by the ‘benefits’. One of these […]

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American PR and Iraq

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] President’s belated apology could have appeared more sincere had, prior to it, and in demonstration of true contrition, the US explained to the American public why, in Iraq, dogs are symbolic of degradation. There are two very specific ‘old’ reasons. Meantime, a minor secondary strain of Icon PR burst into life: circulation of the […]

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Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] on terrorism’ is everywhere, with the British Home Secretary squeezing out long-established civil liberties, and prominent Jews warning of rising anti-Semitism. Millions march against the invasion of Iraq, but, with the exception of Spain, have yet to dent the electoral fortunes of the political leaders who took us there. The Cold War kept democracy […]

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Israel and the Clash of Civilisations

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

Cock-up, conspiracy, or both? Israel and the Clash of Civilisations Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East Jonathan Cook London: Pluto Books, 2008, £14.99, p/b Was the invasion of Iraq a disastrous cock-up by the Americans and British, and by the Pentagon in particular? There certainly is a long line of […]

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Export or Die: Britain’s Defence Trade with Iran and Iraq

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] plenty not used during its long sessions and deliberations, to provide detailed analyses of government policy towards the sale of defence-related and dual-use equipment to Iran and Iraq during and after the Gulf War. The argument rests on five propositions. First, British defence-related exports are driven by a general desire to export what is […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

The British American Project and the war on Iraq The war on Iraq proved a busy time for members of the British American Project (Lobster 33 et seq) on this side of the pond. To cover the American countdown to war, long-time UK advisory board member Jim Naughtie returned to the New York home […]

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RE:

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] different conclusions.(17) * The spoils of war The Center for Public Integrity has published an updated list of companies that continue to benefit from contracts awarded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Halliburton was the largest single contractor in Iraq in 2004 and its former subsidiary, KBR Inc. (a.k.a. Kellogg, Brown and Root), has carried on […]

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