Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] his Dreaming War (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002). 5 Described in Thomas E. Mahl’s Desperate Deception (Virginia : Brassey’s, 1999). 4 6 preceding the assault on Iraq, may turn out to be the most important diplomatic revelation of that atrocity.4 This is letting the cat out of the bag with a vengeance. But […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] having to worry so much about the negative PR associated with body-bags: mercenaries don’t arrive back in flagdraped coffins. This disgusting story climaxes with the arrival in Iraq of maybe 100,000 mercenaries, all getting paid many times more than their state equivalents (as usual privatisation means paying a great deal more for a worse […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] ensconced at Harvard, I see no reason to conceal the truth. It is necessary to reveal this so that people can correctly evaluate his political pronouncements on Iraq and Afghanistan, and his motives in making them.’ 6 Wikileaks There is an interesting discussion of what if anything the US state can do to stop […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] the Assad regime. It had too much to lose by provoking the Americans. The pretext for war was false, something that was still a sensitive issue after Iraq. Instead there was a strong suspicion that it was the work of the Turkish-backed al-Nusra front, intending to fix the blame on Assad and thereby provoke […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] early efforts to capitalise on the Pope’s shooting in 1981, through Billygate, the Grenada invasion ‘files’, the October Surprise, the yellowcake uranium invention that contributed to the Iraq War right up to his present-day warmongering Foundation for Defense of Democracy outpourings.38 There’s are lots more UK strands to the Calvi story. For those new […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] his rather pally relationship with a known Russian spy. See either man. Chilcot There is so much to be said about Sir John Chilcot’s Inquiry into the Iraq War. It ironically delivered a political Weapon of Mass Destruction that no-one was expecting and it was a shame that press coverage of the report was […]