Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Robert Parry Arlington (VA): The Media Consortium, 2004; $22.95 (US); p/b Order from <www.secrecyandprivilege.com> This is the book I have enjoyed most since the last Lobster and it is one of the best books I have read on American politics and parapolitics. Robert Parry really is very good indeed: he has the serious investigative … Read more
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America’s intelligence agencies James Bamford, New York: Doubleday, 2004, h/back, $26.95 Ghost Wars: The Secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll New York: Penguin, 2004, h/back, $29.95 These books cover some […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] bomb containing VX nerve agent, the most potent chemical weapon in the US CW armoury. The bomb was dropped on elements of the Republican Guard in Southern Iraq, I was informed. Heavy casualties resulted. The operation, directed by the Central Intelligence Agency, was a counter-strike, following an Iraqi Scud that fell on Israel. The […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] to cut supplies as this would cause hardship in the short term and revolution in the medium term. I wondered if he foresaw the 2003 war on Iraq. He writes: ‘As the United States has not managed to unseat Saddam Hussein, it is left with the uncomfortable choice of accepting the Iraqi regime or […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
Greg Palast London: Robinson, 2003, £7.99, p/b As the war on Iraq has reminded us, journalism can be a dangerous vocation: the nearer a reporter, photographer or filmmaker gets to the action, the greater the risks run. Away from the shooting, the hazards are different, though only a little less potent, and Greg […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] and a belief that life should be better for the vast majority of mankind for whom it is unbearable.’ And on the subject of liberty, and the Iraq of his diary, he quotes approvingly T. E. Lawrence: ‘Freedom is taken, not given.’ Glass does not pontificate on the remark – he rarely does on […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] of recent Acts of Parliament (1987 onwards). Plans to publish Acts of Parliament in full from 1996 onwards. Newsgroups alt.desert-storm Subjects include chemical/ biological weapons used in Iraq, depleted uranium, Iraq sanctions, Gulf War Syndrome, birth defects in babies born to Gulf War veterans, US export of CBW-related materials to Iraq. alt.politics.org.cia Mena – […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] magisterial, perhaps – than the historical overviews that preceded them. It’s partly that current affairs is a moving target. In the case of why the Americans attacked Iraq, for example, our knowledge of the actual decision-making process is growing by the week as the military and intelligence bureaucracies leak in the great game of […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] – of pounds of bribes and general ripping-off of the public purse could be done on the quiet. Hence Malaysia and the Pergau dam fiasco; hence arming Iraq, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Indonesia and who knows which other scum-bag regimes; hence the huge subsidies of the arms industry by the British state. In the Public […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
Empires Apart: America And Russia From The Vikings To Iraq Brian Landers Hove: Picnic Publishing, 2009, £15, p/b Is America an empire? Tsarist Russia and its Soviet successor were certainly seen as such through western eyes. That America is not showing the heavily ideologised world through which we frame history. In a bold […]
