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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] London Dome fiasco. However, its fall was also due to its exclusivity: ‘old’ people were banned. A snapshot of the country emerged following the sad death in Iraq of hostage Ken Bigley. A ‘modern’ Briton turned out to be a grandfather working overseas because he did not have an adequate pension. Another example was […]

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Elvis has left the building: Political Perspectives on the Fall of Polly Peck

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] more public profile as the Chairman of Westland. 3i (a name difficult to find in indexes) was involved with many of the companies later embroiled in Arms-to- Iraq, particularly with Astra, where they were the main institutional shareholder. (6) Larry Tindale, as a non-executive director, often chaired board meetings in Nadir’s absence, and became […]

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Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] and my involvement declined from being branch secretary and local election agent to being just another inactive member, unable to cut the cord. I eventually resigned over Iraq. A conspiracy theorist? Much of the content of this book would be described as conspiracy theories by the major media. I would reject that – and […]

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Spooks

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] School of Oriental Studies at Durham University (the poor man’s equivalent of St. Antony’s). Intelligence officer in early part of the war in Syria later political officer Iraq and post-war senior diplomat. (Independent 11 July 1990) Col. Terence Maxwell: died 1991 Cyril Mills (Daily Telegraph 22 July 1991) Charles Stuart (Daily Telegraph 1 August […]

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] how some CIA officers were urgently trying to sell Saddam a consignment of Soviet-made shoulder-operated SAMs in February 1991, at the height of the air war against Iraq. This factionalism may also have accounted for the CIA target set that resulted in the whoopsy-daisy destruction of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo […]

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Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] replicate is the manner in which the fabricated evidence of weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi al-Qaida connections were ‘sexed-up’ in preparation for the illegal invasion of Iraq (and subsequent war crimes) in 2003.9 By November 2011, Britain’s Tory government had repeated the history of its predecessor by announcing that the MoD would participate […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] USA on the other, run by bankers, public schoolboys (and they are boys for the most part) and the super-rich, is the outcome of this process.28 The Iraq Memory Hole Winston Smith, the central character of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, works for the Ministry of Truth in Airstrip One, which is what Britain is […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that are being spent on PMCs that provide services related to the ‘Global War on Terror’ and the effective civil war that followed the second invasion of Iraq in 2003. This is the focus of what follows. In 2006 American author Charlie Cray stated that ‘Industry analysts expect it will be a $200 billion-a-year […]

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair Miles Goslett London, Head of Zeus, 2018, £16.99 ISBN-13: 978-1788543095 Did you know that the body of Iraq weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, who died mysteriously in 2003 after being named by 10 Downing Street for criticising its war-promoting dossier, had been exhumed and […]

Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice by John A Nagl

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his memoir is ‘about counterinsurgency and its journey from the far periphery of US military doctrine to its center’. The reality is that after the failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States is not about to commit large ground forces to a protracted military occupation again any time soon. Even the rise of […]

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