Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: Excusing the Iraq war? Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence Frank P. Harvey Cambridge University Press, 2011, £20.99, p/b At a particularly fractious press call in June 2003, an exasperated George W. Bush declared: ‘This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq….. Now, there are some who like to […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] that the actual response to the attack, the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, was always a side-show. 9/11 provided an opportunity for the US, in alliance with Israel and Saudi Arabia, to attempt to establish complete domination over the Middle East. First Iraq would be dealt with to be followed by Syria and Iran, […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] entertain the likes of George Osbourne and Lord Mandelson. Some continued to dabble in the politics of their motherland and others with that ofí other countries, including Israel, with many oligarchs possessing passports from that country. The authors seek to measure the impact of their presence in Britain and list many ennobled Brits – […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] the intent to sabotage computer programs. Perhaps the most famous example of this activity went by the name of Stuxnet, which was developed by the US and Israel to damage Iran’s nuclear program in 2010. In 2022 we are told that Russia has and continues to wage an AM war on Ukraine. On both […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] with Tehran. To achieve this, he ordered the CIA to set up a network of legitimate companies across Europe and the Middle East, in particular Britain and Israel, in order to secretly supply illegal arms to Iran. The main British company, called Allivane International, was set up at Cumbernauld near Glasgow with CIA money […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] William Blum put this as succinctly as I could in a piece of his, ‘Another Peace Scare’: ‘We have to keep this in mind – America, like Israel, cherishes its enemies. Without enemies, the United States appears to be a nation without moral purpose and direction. The various managers of the National Security State […]