The View from the Bridge

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[…] secret intelligence report in the FCO just around the time of the first Iraq war – that a Syrian terrorist group was responsible acting on behalf of Iran. It was decided that this would be kept under wraps because the West needed Iran and Syria’s quiescence in the attack on Iraq. I was at […]

South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] learned that the paper’s author was Professor David Charters, who has written extensively in this field. *new* Strange goings on . . . . . . in Iran, where it is alleged that Britain’s Deputy Ambassador, Giles Whitaker, was amongst those who had been ‘Arrested by IRGC in Restricted Areas in Iran’.20 Also arrested, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] secret intelligence report in the FCO just around the time of the first Iraq war – that a Syrian terrorist group was responsible acting on behalf of Iran. It was decided that this would be kept under wraps because the West needed Iran and Syria’s quiescence in the attack on Iraq. I was at […]

Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to report the coverage. ‘Our one access to daylight was the US media and its knock on to the Filipino media…It was a huge, huge stitch-up.’1 6 Iran 2009 H arding’s description of the events of Manila 1986 may shed some light on the still under-explored Iranian elections of 2009 and on the uncertainty […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud London: Macmillan, 2023, 317 pages Colin Challen This is the first book about Pegasus, the cyber surveillance software developed by the Israeli company the NSO Group. It lays out the threat posed by the world’s leading cyber surveillance outfit. It is […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] facts – were not divulged to the jury at the trial of three Scarland senior execs, who were acquitted of any wrongdoing. The (potential) coming war with Iran: where the money is going Much has already been said in the news about the potential for a wide–ranging war with Iran following the assassination by […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] word ‘allegedly’ from this quotation; but otherwise Kilcullen’s remarks are not what one expects from a counterinsurgency expert working for the United States. Similarly, his discussion of Iran notes that ‘those of us who served in Iraq always saw Iranian actions as aggressive – understandably, I guess, since they were doing their best to […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] him that the US bases in that country were vital for American interests in the region and not some sort of rip-off. And even though Mattis regarded Iran as a threat to the US position in the Middle East, nevertheless he still thought that the nuclear deal with Iran had been an American success, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] US allies in the region)? They are the last people anyone from the US government would seek to implicate. If you wanted a pretext to attack Iraq, Iran, Libya or Syria, the false flag would be accompanied by links to one (or several) of those countries, not Saudi Arabia.25 This scenario is absurd. As, […]

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