Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the United States’. (p. 1) The first chapter sets out to demonstrate this point by emphasising the extent to which the Cameron government pushed for intervention in Libya, while the Obama administration prevaricated and held back. Indeed, Obama was actually regarded as an ‘obstacle’ to be overcome if intervention was to take place. (p. […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] time of the strike, Roger Windsor and Steve Hudson, and a Libyan living in England, were persuaded to state that Scargill and Heathfield had used funds from Libya – in cash – to pay the mortgages on their houses during the strike. This story was run initially in the Daily Mirror and on TV […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] are executed or forced to undergo a sex change. 19 A somewhat curious designation: Freedom House places Iran in the company of China, Russia, Zimbabwe, Cuba and Libya when it comes to political freedoms and civil liberties (democracy is famously not only about voting). Page 37 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 mean there was no […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] by the USA, the EU and NATO was accompanied by a hubristic liberal-capitalist triumphalism which poisoned and destabilised the international environment. The recent history of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria provides clear evidence of a dialectical process in which Western intervention has fuelled political instability and led to blowback in the form of Islamic […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] also notes that the failure to topple Colonel Gaddafi ‘created a vacuum for international terrorism’. (He does not discuss UK involvement in funding various Islamist groups in Libya and Syria.) ‘Covert action helped mask decline in other places such as the Middle East. Yet it could only stem the tide of nationalism for so […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw […]