Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] adviser highlights a great contradiction that runs through what we know of the new administration’s foreign policy. On the one hand, Flynn has on many occasions identified Iran as being behind the global jihad that is supposedly being waged against the United States. He has also condemned Putin’s Russia for supporting and encouraging this […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] Thatcher’s premiership was that during the 1980s she and her Cabinet authorised a long running and totally illegal operation to supply arms secretly to both Iraq and Iran, in contravention of UN resolutions and British law. Billions of pounds worth of arms were exported illegally. Parliament was lied to and British ministers, officials and […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] architects of the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. He was a staunch advocate of regime change as a US strategy and was particularly exercised about Iran and the improvement in Iran’s strategic position that resulted from the Iraq War. As far as he was concerned, the conflict in the Middle East could […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] Africa was a party to the US-Iran arms deal. Which is where Larsson and Stocklassa pick up the thread. Under this arrangement, the CIA provided arms to Iran to further the wider global interests of the US. Payment for the arms, many of which were manufactured in Sweden by Bofors, was made via banking […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] There were the unsuccessful assassinations: Castro, Castro, and Castro. There were the much hoped-for assassinations: Nasser, Nasser, Nasser. And, of course, US-sponsored, -supported or -staged regime changes: Iran, Guatemala, Iraq, Congo, Syria, Dominican Republic, South Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. The Americans trained or supported secret police forces everywhere from Cambodia […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] (hydro-meteorological phenomena) is becoming more frequent and more severe. Are the American military now using weather weapons? In May 2010, having been warned off by the US, Iran and Pakistan signed a long-standing pipeline deal, and in July 80 Ibid. 81 Wallström, ‘Parliamentary questions’, E-1453/2003, 3 July, 2003, 82 BAE Systems, ‘BAE Systems completes […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] secret intelligence report in the FCO just around the time of the first Iraq war – that a Syrian terrorist group was responsible acting on behalf of Iran. It was decided that this would be kept under wraps because the West needed Iran and Syria’s quiescence in the attack on Iraq. I was at […]
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[PDF file]: […] fact go to jail, but with sentences that were either token, or soon reversed in higher courts. On a higher level, the fall of the Shah in Iran and of Marcos in the Philippines have been followed by new revelations of those dictators’ links to private as well as public forces in the United […]