Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
Compiled by Jane Affleck The US GAO is the investigative arm of the US Congress, and is charged with examining all matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of public funds. It conducts audits, surveys, investigations and evaluations of federal programmes, either at its own initiative or at the request of Congressional Committees or members. […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] trade route to the Far East and the main passage through which oil reached Britain and Europe was com-pounded by the coming to power of Musaddiq in Iran. It became apparent to the British government that their regional interests could only be secured through Cyprus, their only remaining colony in the area. Towards the […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] supposedly following Bilderberg instructions, who suppressed crucial intelligence to bring about the Yom Kippur War and the Arab oil embargo, and who subsequently encouraged the Shah of Iran to raise oil prices again at the start of 1974. Confirming the presence of Kissinger at Saltsjöbaden in 1973, presumably to participate in this plot, is […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] adviser highlights a great contradiction that runs through what we know of the new administration’s foreign policy. On the one hand, Flynn has on many occasions identified Iran as being behind the global jihad that is supposedly being waged against the United States. He has also condemned Putin’s Russia for supporting and encouraging this […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] Thatcher’s premiership was that during the 1980s she and her Cabinet authorised a long running and totally illegal operation to supply arms secretly to both Iraq and Iran, in contravention of UN resolutions and British law. Billions of pounds worth of arms were exported illegally. Parliament was lied to and British ministers, officials and […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] Africa was a party to the US-Iran arms deal. Which is where Larsson and Stocklassa pick up the thread. Under this arrangement, the CIA provided arms to Iran to further the wider global interests of the US. Payment for the arms, many of which were manufactured in Sweden by Bofors, was made via banking […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] architects of the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. He was a staunch advocate of regime change as a US strategy and was particularly exercised about Iran and the improvement in Iran’s strategic position that resulted from the Iraq War. As far as he was concerned, the conflict in the Middle East could […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] There were the unsuccessful assassinations: Castro, Castro, and Castro. There were the much hoped-for assassinations: Nasser, Nasser, Nasser. And, of course, US-sponsored, -supported or -staged regime changes: Iran, Guatemala, Iraq, Congo, Syria, Dominican Republic, South Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. The Americans trained or supported secret police forces everywhere from Cambodia […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] (hydro-meteorological phenomena) is becoming more frequent and more severe. Are the American military now using weather weapons? In May 2010, having been warned off by the US, Iran and Pakistan signed a long-standing pipeline deal, and in July 80 Ibid. 81 Wallström, ‘Parliamentary questions’, E-1453/2003, 3 July, 2003, 82 BAE Systems, ‘BAE Systems completes […]