Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] time of Whitlam’s dismissal, and leaked the explosive story of Whitlam’s Iraqi benefactors, spicing it up further with allegations that Whitlam was going to leak information to Iraq about Arab discussions with Henry Kissinger. And of course, in February 1976 with Whitlam back in opposition, Mr Murdoch duly published it. However, he displayed his […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq A report on this, with pictures of babies with gross deformities born in the Falluja hospital, is to be found in Professor Paola Manduca’s ‘The biological […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] ties with the Arab states which had replaced the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East after World War One. The British sold weapons to the governments of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Libya and trained their armed forces. At the end of World War Two all these countries apart from Saudi Arabia were […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq. A report on this, with pictures of babies with gross deformities born in the Falluja hospital, is to be found in Professor Paola Manduca’s ‘The biological […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] in Afghanistan has given the British Army a raison d’être it has lacked for many years, and new 11 For details see the case of Fallujah in Iraq discussed at 12 The joke has it that a political gaff is a politician telling the truth. 13 LVO = Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order. […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] admiration for brutal authoritarian crackdowns in North Korea and Tiananmen Square. He accused George W Bush of the treasonous offense of deliberately lying the country into the Iraq War. He habitually lied about his own position on the Iraq War. He was dismissive of key post-World War II alliances and international organizations. He was […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] not purely a matter of self-interest. As a candidate, he often railed against the foreign policies of his predecessors, Democrat and Republican alike — in particular the Iraq war, a debacle that was inseparable from the failures of the intelligence community. After it was reported in December 2016 that the C.I.A. had concluded that […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] involved at the highest level in running America’s Empire, from the Battles of Fallujah to commanding US Central Command (CENTCOM) that covered some twenty countries including both Iraq and Afghanistan. While his credentials as a servant of US Imperialism are impeccable, to give him his due, when he was first contacted by Vice President […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] then the powerful Downing Street Director of Communications and Strategy, enjoying an unprecedented influence over civil servants, Cabinet ministers and Labour MPs. He stood down after the Iraq invasion in 2003 but became Labour’s communication director for the 2005 general election. In the 2019 one Campbell canvassed for former Liverpool Labour MP and director […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Mail from an Iranian defector,2 4 matches precisely what I was shown in a 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 […]

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