The Green Zone The Environmental Costs of Militarism by Barry Sanders

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[…] numbers to such unquantified amounts such as how much petrol, diesel and oil the military consume in a year; how much depleted uranium it has scattered over Iraq (and how many people will die or be injured as a result.) Not to forget the human cost of the war in Iraq, on which the […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the book reveal that Norton-Taylor is telling a slightly different story. Chief among the villains is Tony Blair. Blair’s refusal to openly admit his commitment to invading Iraq ensured British troops were sent to war unprepared. The lack of training, equipment and local intelligence created a scenario where overstretched and under trained soldiers would […]

Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] natural resources of much of See or 12 Keating was Labor Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 until his defeat in the 1996 election. Note that on Iraq, in 2003, Blair preferred the opinions of the President of the US to those held by the leaders of France and Germany or the United Nations […]

British Counterinsurgency by John Newsinger

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] brisk, assertive account, with lots of documentation if I chose to pursue it, is what I want.’ Since the 2002 edition Newsinger has added a chapter on Iraq, another devastating account of the self-delusion and staggering incompetence of the Americans and futility on the part of the British Army, which suffered nearly two hundred […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] need for Dr. Wahl to find and forward it. In 2002, the Hess family declined to participate. The project was dead and urgent work came with the Iraq War. Only in 2012, after the cremation of Hess’s remains, did I receive an e-mail reversing the family position. I did not meet Dr. Cemper-Kiesslich until […]

Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

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[PDF file]: […] Blair contributed the Foreword. Now to be fair, Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian […]

Newsinger Bryant copy

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[…] Blair contributed the Foreword. Now to be fair, Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian […]

Whose Prospect?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at Page 85 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 editor wrote a long piece suggesting that Saddam did have WMD after all, but they were mostly spirited out of Iraq into Syria in a convoy of lorries driven by Russian Spetsnatz commandos just before the American invasion. Did Prospect’s security contacts steer the magazine towards Hassan […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to be so. Here is journalist and future Labour MP Sion Simon writing in The Daily Telegraph on December 21 1998 after joint US-British bombing raids on Iraq. In the course of this action (the little-remembered engagement was called Operation Desert Fox), more cruise missiles were fired in four days than in the entire […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] rather than reciprocating steam engines. Encouraged by the government in London, oil corporations established themselves in Persia and Mesopotamia (then part of the Ottoman Empire and now Iraq). The largest of these (with 51 per cent of the shares purchased by the British State), was the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP). The defeat of […]

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