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Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] intellectual authority; and, qua Catholic, his claims to rationality are difficult to take too seriously. Nonetheless this is an interesting and enjoyable polemic. Uncovered: the War on Iraq A film by Robert Greenwald A Blue Dolphin DVD, 2005, www.uncoveredthewaroniraq.com I don’t know what the political affiliations – if any – of the readers of […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Gardner, Gloucester hopeful and a former RAF officer, saying it would be ‘hypocritical’ for her to accept Mr Blair’s donation because of her decision to criticise the Iraq war. Europe and money are two of the big themes of Blair Inc., a conscientious effort by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan to uncover […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] McDonnell, Corbyn and Diane Abbott) who openly supported Livingstone and even nominated him for the role. Even at the peak of his powers – this was pre- Iraq War – Blair thought it beneath him, and frankly unnecessary, to waste time (as he would have seen it) on a handful of London-based Trotskyists. Some […]

A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] words on the subject – and they only appear in her chronology: ‘December 21 – Lockerbie bombing’. A Difference of Opinion offers more on the invasion of Iraq in 2003, See the review of Megrahi – You Are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence, in Lobster 64 at . 4 Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to think. *new* He had the receipts . . . Scott Ritter is a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer who was chief weapons inspector in Iraq during the the hunt for WMDs. The Iraq experience radicalised him and he is a regular critic of US foreign policy in the liberal/left media, notably […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] to think. *new* He had the receipts . . . Scott Ritter is a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer who was chief weapons inspector in Iraq during the the hunt for WMDs. The Iraq experience radicalised him and he is a regular critic of US foreign policy in the liberal/left media, notably […]

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[…] intellectual authority; and, qua Catholic, his claims to rationality are difficult to take too seriously. Nonetheless this is an interesting and enjoyable polemic. Uncovered: the War on Iraq A film by Robert Greenwald A Blue Dolphin DVD, 2005, www.uncoveredthewaroniraq.com I don’t know what the political affiliations – if any – of the readers of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (it now has three). Morrison gave an interview to the BBC in 2004 in which he said that when he heard Tony Blair claiming in 2002 that Iraq posed a ‘serious and current’ threat, he ‘could almost hear the collective raspberry going up around Whitehall.’ 19 That comment got him fired after the committee […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The British have their ‘Official Secrets’ Act. When the Wikileaks site was launched in 2007 and attained notoriety for publication of infamous actions by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, this platform was heralded and condemned for its disclosures and exposures. Julian Assange is quoted as saying that when he receives documents classified under […]

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