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[…] too.)7 Item: who wrote this? If peace breaks out, defense contractors like Raytheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin lose billions in profits. There are 7-figure jobs waiting for Pentagon brass who ensure that peace does not happen when they “retire” from public service. This is why the all willingly lied to the public about Afghanistan […]

Iraq and intelligence

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] the required ‘intelligence’ led the neo-conservatives who were leading the push to attack Iraq to create the Office of Special Plans (OSP), a little unit within the Pentagon, which was conceived by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense. OSP’s role was to find or manufacture intelligence which would provide the pretext for invasion. […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] hegemony by the rise of China as an economic and military power. The development has come to be seen in US think tanks as well as the Pentagon as a ‘Thucydides trap’. The author of this expression was the political scientist Graham T. Allison, who quoted a passage from the History of the Peloponnesian […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] ‘We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the or 11 12 or 13 14 15 16 17 18 3 attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq. swung American public opinion in our favor’. The Timeline tells us more about Netanyahu’s property magnate friend Larry Silverstein acquiring […]

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